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Manufacturers Must Seek Better Supply Chain Visibility

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One area that manufacturers need to focus on is improving supply chain visibility. Here we define visibility as having access to accurate, real-time data that enables better decision making and risk mitigation. Visibility all the way up the supply chain. Demand visibility all the way up the supply chain.

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UltraShipTMS Integrates MacroPoint for Superior Shipment Visibility

Supply Chain Collaborator

Friday, May 27, 2016 – Fair Lawn, NJ – UltraShipTMS is proud to announce it now provides connectivity between its award-winning TMS platform and MacroPoint, a leading provider of freight monitoring and tracking solutions for shippers, brokers and 3PLs. As a result, shipping via these carriers meant less visibility to shipments in transit.

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Why Data Sharing is Limited in a Competitive Environment

Supply Chain Trend

Asymmetry of Data Ownership. In Pierre Pinson’s article “To Share or Not to Share: The Future of Collaborative Forecasting,” the comparison between data and big oil is striking. Just like oil, data is not evenly distributed among geographies and owners. The retailer monetizes that data. DATA SUPPLIERS.

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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

These include data granularity, decision frequency, business impact, system complexity, and human centricity. IBP fully integrates strategy with rolling forecasts , with a process for enterprise resource reallocation and with a corporate communication plan (Van Hove, 2016). Automation versus Augmentation.

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Visibility Matters to Supply Change Management Improvement

Supply Chain Collaborator

For manufacturers wanting to avoid idle production lines, up-to-the-minute visibility into inbound logistics is crucial. For retailers, up-to-the-minute visibility into inbound logistics makes the difference between quick fulfillment/replenishment (for happy customers) and loss of sales to hungry competitors.

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346: Enable and Empower Your Supply Chain, with WiseTech

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Today Richard White, Founder and CEO of WiseTech Global, joins me to chat all about the company and what they do; his entrepreneurial journey; using real-time data visibility to bring your workforce together; accelerating growth through acquisition; and his vision for empowering the world’s supply chains.

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Pigs Get Fed; Hogs Get Slaughtered

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This week I attended the Logimed 2016 conference in New Orleans. He talked about how that experience with power was a real high at times. Having fact –based discussions that are anchored with solid historical data is crucial in defining what a win/win should, and can, look like. Do not let bad data be your obstacle.