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🚀 Exciting News! 🚀 On September 25th, Orkestra will be hosting a webinar on Supply Chain Orchestration featuring Bram van Londen. Supply chain orchestration is more than just moving goods—it’s about creating an integrated, resilient network that adapts to market demands, mitigates risks, and delivers value. 🔑 Key Topics: • Leveraging advanced technologies and data analytics • Building resilience and adaptability in supply chain operations • Enhancing collaboration to maximize value 🗓️ Date: September 25, 2024 ⏰ Time: 9:30 AM EST | 15:30 CET 📍 Register using the first link in the comments. #SupplyChainOrchestration #SupplyChainManagement #Logistics #OperationalExcellence #Orkestra #Webinar

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🚨 Ready to revolutionise your supply chain strategy? 🚨 In episode 170 of Own The Build Podcast, Christopher Barber and Paul Heming tackle the urgent need for a more informed and visual approach to supply chain management 📉 Traditional methods often fall short in providing these crucial insights 🚀 Imagine being able to visualise your entire supply chain, identify gaps, and make data-driven decisions with ease By leveraging these digital solutions, you can streamline your decision-making process, ensuring you work with the best contractors for every project! 🎙 Tune in to the full episode now: https://lnkd.in/eNjsYdmM #construction #OwnTheBuild #subcontractor #ConstructionPodcast #C_Link

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Unlocking the Power of Federated Knowledge Graphs for Supply Chain Optimisation 🌐 A federated knowledge graph presents a transformative approach to provide fast and accurate access to diverse and ‘right time’ data. IOTICS technology enables a Federated Knowledge Graph that included data from multiple sources from across your entire supply chain, therefore empowering organisation to query an entire ecosystem of interoperating data to enrich and inform decision making and insight. #FederatedKnowledgeGraphs #DigitalEcosystem #SecureSharing #Innovation #Interoperability 

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A new report Gartner on last-mile delivery technology solutions breaks down the top priorities for improvements across supply chain organisations. Looking at this data, Oliver Rupps, Hampleton Partners’ Sector Principal for logistics, digital #logistics solutions and tech-enabled #supplychain management, notes that: “The key drivers of supply chain optimisation are innovations in operating models, productivity and efficiency, and customer service and experience. These are the factors defining the M&A agenda of large players and private equity investors on digital supply chain solutions. At Hampleton Partners, we notice these factors driving an ongoing high acquisition level in the European market.”

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The season is upon us, whether it’s reentering #backtoschool or #peakseason it’s about to get really busy! Here are our top tips for making your #supplychain run at optimal efficiency during this hectic time: - Enhance Supply Chain #Visibility: Break down data siloes and utilize advanced tracking and monitoring tools to gain real-time insights into inventory levels, shipment status, and potential bottlenecks. - Strengthen #Supplier Relationships: Foster strong partnerships with suppliers to ensure timely deliveries and better collaboration during high-demand periods. - Automate Processes: Implement #automation in various supply chain processes, such as order processing, #inventorymanagement, and warehouse #operations, to increase #efficiency and reduce errors. - Optimize #Inventory Management: Use sophisticated AI-powered inventory management solutions to ensure optimal #stock levels, minimizing excess and avoiding stockouts. - Route Optimization: Improve logistics with #AI by optimizing #deliveryroutes to reduce #transportation costs and improve delivery times. - Increase Warehouse Efficiency: Streamline #warehouse operations by employing efficient layout designs, adequate staffing, and #technology such as barcode scanners and warehouse management systems (#WMS). - Employee Training: Invest in training for employees to ensure they are well-prepared to handle the increased workload and use new technologies effectively. For more tips and insights into operating at peak performance during peak season, talk to one of our supply chain experts 👉 https://bit.ly/3SvElAQ

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Many supply chain's are made up of multiple stages. SCOR BP 16 on Supply Network Planning is about how to make this network work.. check out more about it here https://lnkd.in/eWkteRZz

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Continuing the journey with MIT Data Science Lab. Our fourth jointed study reached the next phase in which your insights are invaluable and help us explore how localisation influences supply chain performance, efficiency, cost, and resilience🌐 Shape the future of supply chain management by participating in our joint survey. #SupplyChain #Localisation #Procurement #Survey #PwC #MITDataScienceLab​ https://pwc.to/3WVWoDo

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🚨 Calling all Supply Chain & GBS Leaders! 🚨 https://lnkd.in/eExsVMRR The supply chain plays a critical role in enterprise success—and there’s so much potential for optimisation! 🚀 We’re conducting a survey to uncover the key challenges and opportunities in supply chain performance. Your input will help shape our upcoming Supply Chain Optimization Report (available next month). 📊 ✔️ Want the report? Simply check the box in the final survey question to receive it directly! Take the survey here: https://lnkd.in/eExsVMRR Your insights can help transform the future of supply chain performance! 🙌 #SupplyChain #GBS #Optimization #Survey Neo Tangent Limited Sandesh Kurkal Jonathon Chen Charley Song Leelavathi SC Rizwan ul karim Barbara Hodge

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🔍New research from our partners at Accenture highlights crucial insights for #SupplyChainRiskManagement leaders: 1️⃣ Companies with more mature supply chains see 23% higher profitability. 2️⃣ Leaders at these companies are 6X more likely to use #AI and #GenerativeAI in their supply chains to generate business value. 3️⃣ Their companies deliver 15% better returns to shareholders (8.5% vs. 7.4%). With supply chain threats rising, leveraging next-gen #AI technologies highlighted in the research is vital for staying competitive. Interos Inc is at the forefront of the revolution, using AI predictive intelligence to help some of the world’s biggest companies navigate #SupplyChainLifecycle risk. 🌍 Ready to anticipate and pre-empt multi-tier supply chain threats? Reach out to Interos today! 🚀 Check out Accenture's full report, "Next Stop, Next Gen," here: https://lnkd.in/gu75tu2h #SupplyChainRiskManagement #AI #Innovation #StrategicInsihts #TechTrends #Leadership

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What #supplychain technology are you most likely to invest in 2024? We've asked 152 supply chain executives and here are the results. These questions had multiple choice answers - but you can clearly see some patterns - the importance of data and using the best tools to leverage it - of course, #planning and #forecasting will always be important and now with the #genAI hype - also on the challenges side - a mix of difficulty in changing the status quo and the high costs of implementation... Supplify Alcott Global #valuechain #technology

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The discussions we had around AI in the Supply Chain at our Annual Debate earlier this year are more relevant than ever as AI evolves and its usage becomes more and more prevalent. Our newly published report summarises the views and experience our speakers shared at the Debate, the results from the interactive voting throughout the event and the Q&A with the audience; worth a read when you have a few minutes! https://bit.ly/3ZX7MR2

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I still need to listen to this one. And I’ll consider ordering the book. However, despite my deep respect and admiration for Kevin Lawton, CLTD and his many interviewees, with many of whom I maintain a correspondence relationship on LinkedIn (just as I hope to meet Kevin and many of the others at an ASCM event/WERC/ProMat/ other industry event once I have the time to attend), I fundamentally disagree that automation and AI are the ironclad “way of the future”. If we are thinking of the warehouse/DC/break bulk/cross dock facility in the narrowest sense, they are correct. In these environments, the dividends gained by automation’s uniformity and the speed that comes through uniformity as opposed to human dexterity (a point our friend Mary G. of Zebra Technologies made), then they are absolutely correct. However, I have spent my Logistics and Warehousing career in human-centric environments: the U.S. Army, Target , Kellogg Marine Supply/ Land 'N'​ Sea Distributing, Inc., Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP), Raymour & Flanigan Furniture and Mattresses and now at Morgan Truck Body. In this diverse range of environments and company sizes, the level of technological adoption varied. But manual processes were a major component at all of them and my personal work in Inventory Control all feeds back into the ERP that we use as a WMS, but I still do a lot of export to Excel and pen-and-paper data collection for entry into the ERP afterwards. Kellogg Marine Supply (KMS) is the only DC for motorized recreational watercraft on the Eastern Seaboard. Their main competitor is Lippert to my understanding, who do not have a DC in our region. KMS had a robust scanner system operating on an easy-to-use legacy “green screen” A/S 400 powered WMS. I loved it. There is no reason to go to SAP or JD Edwards (which runs on Oracle) just to be “modern”. Raymour & Flanigan Furniture and Mattresses has an old WMS, too, and while it was a bit more cumbersome, it was perfectly usable and gave the needed inventory visibility. KMS did partially automate their small item picking by installing four Kardex Remstar Vertical Lift Modules (VLM). But will KMS move to AMR picking or robots unloading trucks (they have over 20 docks in the inbound/outbound area)? I seriously doubt it. Even a behemoth DC like KMS or Morgan Truck Body, the industry leader in box truck box fabrication, are at their core “mom and pop” companies. That’s not a derogatory term. Even though there is room for more technology adoption where I work (in the case of the Materials team, more versatile scanner software, like the Zebra Technologies interface we had at both Target and KMS), that doesn’t mean the “mom and pop” style companies that dominate the manufacturing and medium-sized distribution sector MUST imitate Amazon or they will die. We like the human-centric element. #warehousing

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Join our Crash Course on Radical data transparency in the supply chain next week on Sep 5. Sign up and learn: 💡 How different organisations in various industries have started to build business value from transparent value chains 💡 How to connect the operative reality of your organisation to evolving transparent data requirements 💡 What are possible paths towards radical data transparency and how to start the work towards it Register now: https://brnw.ch/21wLY02 #Data #SolitaLife #ImpactThatLasts

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A significant 1 in 5 have faced operational delays on over 20 occasions this year ⏳ http://spkl.io/6047frl7h Can a boost in supply chain resilience make them better prepared for what's to come in 2025? 👀 Find out how they're being more resilient by downloading our free report, based on a survey with over 2,000 European customers: http://spkl.io/6047frl7h #Maersk #MaerskEurope #SupplyChainResilience #Resilience #SupplyChainDisruption #ResilientSupplyChains #RiskManagement #CrisisManagement #SustainableLogistics #Sustainability #SupplyChainStrategy #SupplyChainTechnology

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Current delivery expectation surveys show that over 𝟗𝟎% 𝐨𝐟 𝐔𝐒 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝟐-𝟑 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 and about a third expect same-day delivery. That’s a lot of pressure on supply chains to deliver faster and more efficiently. This is where digital twins come into play. These virtual replicas of real systems use real-time data to give you a current, clear picture of your supply chain. From production to delivery, digital twins help simplify operations, predict disruptions, and make decisions easier. The benefits? Improved efficiency, more accurate forecasting, smarter inventory management, and the ability to adapt quickly when things change. If you’re curious about how digital twins can make a difference in your supply chain, this McKinsey article offers a great deep dive into how they work and why they’re so valuable. #SupplyChain #DigitalTwins #SupplyChainManagement

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Supply chain resilience will be more important than ever this year as we face uncertainty over global tariffs and import costs. A study by Descartes reveals nearly half of supply chain leaders cite rising tariffs and trade barriers as their top operational concern, with supply chain disruptions in second place. See the data: https://lnkd.in/eDkPSc4g

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Are you leading an innovation project that involves developing AI to drive supply chain efficiency and productivity? Innovate UK BridgeAI Grant Funding Competition - Supply Chain Demonstrator - Applications close: 21 August 2024 About the competition: This competition is an excellent opportunity for organisations passionate about leveraging AI to tackle business supply chain challenges in key sectors such as construction, transport, logistics warehousing, and agriculture and food processing.  Who should apply: Enthusiasts spearheading AI solutions and teams tackling business supply chain challenges. Innovators developing AI solutions that improve supply chain efficiency and increase productivity. Academic institutions and businesses looking to collaborate with SMEs to address challenges or seize opportunities through AI innovation. 

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