March 15, 2022 Agile Production Planning is a Home Run for Supply Chains Today’s supply chain managers are like batters in baseball waiting for the next pitch, only to receive a constant string of... Read More Tags: Advanced Analytics , Digitization
March 18, 2021 What Features Should You Look for in Cloud SCM Solutions? Effective supply chain management is one of the most vital aspects of your business. Today, cloud-computing is instrumental in... Read More Tags: Advanced Analytics , Cloud Technology
February 11, 2021 What is Multi-Dimensional Monitoring? With the ever-growing developments of artificial intelligence and real-time analytics, system monitoring is becoming more... Read More Tags: Advanced Analytics , Supply Chain Resilience
February 9, 2021 5 Tips to Fight the Tender Rejection Rate It’s been a rough 12 months thus far, and tender rejections are on the rise. It’s not too surprising as to why. The shipping... Read More Tags: Advanced Analytics , Transportation Planning
January 14, 2021 TCO Calculator: Cost Optimizations for Cloud-based SCM By switching from on-prem to cloud-based software for supply chain management solutions, OEMs and other manufacturers stand to... Read More Tags: Advanced Analytics , Cloud Technology
January 7, 2021 Why You Should Integrate Transportation Forecasting into Your SCM Even before the pandemic struck, 2020 was projected to be a complex year for freight. Ambiguity in the American truck labor... Read More Tags: Advanced Analytics , Supply Chain Integration
November 26, 2020 The Top 5 Supply Chain Challenges for 2021 Let’s be real, there’s only one top supply chain challenge for 2021. It’s the same top challenge that supply chain managers have... Read More Tags: Advanced Analytics , Supply Chain Management
November 19, 2020 How S&OP Reduces Supply Chain Costs S&OP, or sales and operations planning, occupies a strange space in the supply chain management discussion. Though the term... Read More Tags: Advanced Analytics , Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)
October 22, 2020 AI’s Role in Manufacturing’s Digital Transformation Imagine that you’re an astronaut—you’re orbiting the Earth in your shuttle when all of a sudden an alarm on your control panel... Read More Tags: Advanced Analytics , AI
October 15, 2020 Key Challenges in Forecasting Logistics Demand When it comes to securing capacity for outbound shipments of goods, manufacturers are in somewhat of a bind. The market has... Read More Tags: Advanced Analytics , Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)
October 1, 2020 Emerging Challenges in the Truck/Automotive Industry (and How to Handle Them) In January and February of 2020, exports out of China’s manufacturing sector fell 13% as a result of the coronavirus. Though... Read More Tags: Advanced Analytics , Automotive Industry
August 8, 2020 5 Predictions for Manufacturing in 2021 Even a year ago, change in the manufacturing sector was driven by a diverse array of different trends and motivating factors.... Read More Tags: Advanced Analytics , Digitization
August 4, 2020 Can Supply Chain Integration Improve Your Forecasts? In a study conducted a couple of years ago, fully integrated supply chain businesses were found to outpace their competitors in... Read More Tags: Advanced Analytics , Supply Chain Planning
July 30, 2020 5 Uses for AI in Manufacturing If you’ve looked into artificial intelligence applications in the supply chain space, you know that the umbrella concept of AI... Read More Tags: Advanced Analytics , AI
July 23, 2020 Why Should Production Planners Care About Explainable AI? Let’s say you’re on the hunt for a bank robber who just pulled off an ingenious heist. So far, no one has been able to crack the... Read More Tags: Advanced Analytics , AI
July 21, 2020 How Do Big Data and AI Create Value for Manufacturers? According to Forbes, 99% of firms are investing in AI and Big Data initiatives (including the nearly 2/3rds of those surveyed who... Read More Tags: Advanced Analytics , Digitization
July 7, 2020 5 Myths About Industry 4.0 Whenever a new idea or technology comes along, there’s always a mixture of real insight and hype. With Industry 4.0—the fourth... Read More Tags: Advanced Analytics , Industry 4.0
June 25, 2020 Tender Management in the Digital Supply Chain Let’s say you’ve got a large transport network comprised of multiple carriers and multiple hubs, and you’re trying to expand into... Read More Tags: Advanced Analytics , Digitization