THE AGILE SUPPLY CHAIN

TERMINOLOGY: The Agile Supply Chain (such as for omnichannel). WHAT IT MEANS--anything is possible when you are not the one doing the work.

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT AND CUSTOMER SERVICE

Supply Chain Management has THE Customer Service tool--the Perfect Order, delivered complete, accurate, and on time. No other action in a company comes close.

END-TO-END SUPPLY CHAIN ASSESSMENT. STEP 3.

Assessment of End-to-End #Supply Chain.

3. Evaluate also in context of where the company is going and how it will get their. At best, the strategy. At least, the idea.

LAST MILE, LOGISTICS COSTS AND ROBUST OMNICHANNEL STRATEGY

Is there a correlation between retailers and CPG manufacturers complaining of logistics and Last Mile costs and the lack of a robust omnichannel strategy and supply chain?

DIGITIZATION AND GLOBAL TRADE

In the coming digitization of global trade and Supply Chain Management, which is more subject to disruption--logistics or finance/banking?

END-TO-END SUPPLY CHAIN ASSESSMENT. STEP 2

Assessment of End-to-End Supply Chain.
2.  Analyze for process gaps and technology blind spots.

END-TO-END SUPPLY CHAIN ASSESSMENT: STEP 1

Assessment of End-to-End Supply Chain.
1. Use credible performance metrics. Inventory turns and Perfect Order--both customer and supplier.

AMAZON AND INHOUSE LOGISTICS

Amazon and insourcing/inhouse logistics. Will retailers and manufacturers do reverse outsourcing?

https://theloadstar.co.uk/investment-amazon-logistics-will-grow-outsourcing-goes-now/?

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SUPPLY CHAIN TRANSFORMATION

Supply Chain Transformation for Omnichannel success vs easy, quick answers--like the easy, quick answers that created the problems they are dealing with now.

INVENTORY RICH

Answer—INVENTORY RICH.  Question—What do you call a firm that does not use the New Supply Chain with Inventory Velocity.

3PLs AND LOGISTICS PROVIDERS--DISRUPTION AND STRATEGY

3PLs and Logistics providers are facing much disruption from technology, e-commerce Supply Chains, and more.  Yet many are not developing new strategies.  Instead they are tinkering and "rebranding"--flawed approaches.  Why?

CONTAINER LINE PEFORMANCE EROSION ON SUPPLY CHAINS

In 2013, LTD Management wrote about the impact of container line performance on supply chains.  The issue has not improved. Read more at
http://www.ltdmgmt.com/global-supply-chain-performance-erosion.php

CONTAINER LINE SERVICE FAILURES

BCOs focused on price, not service. Carrier alliance service weakness. Failure by both sides?

https://theloadstar.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a222586b5d51f5e2ddfebc556&id=543075c8ec&e=217ccd66db

E-COMMERCE STRATEGY

Customer Expectations, Being Amazoned, Customer Convenience requires a strategy for e-commerce that is based on Supply Chain Management, technology, and marketing. So why are so many not doing it?

INVENTORY VELOCITY AND WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT

The inventory velocity of the New Supply Chain is excellent working capital management.

OMNICHANNEL WAREHOUSING ISSUE FOR MID-SIZE FIRMS

Omnichannel warehousing creates a dilemma for many mid-size firms.  The usual configuration is to fill the cube of the warehouse.  That is what manufacturers and others do.  E-commerce is not a vertical/cube issue.  It is horizontal--fills floor space for inventory, rollers/conveyors, packaging, etc.  That requires segmenting warehouse space to fit two different stocking and shipping requirements in a fixed warehouse footprint.

NEED SPECIFICS ON LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN TECHNOLOGY

Technology is and will be a disruptor in logistics and Supply Chain Management. But more is needed. What is the context for it? Tech is a process enabler. Not a standalone activity. Need specificity on the processes of how and where and why. Too much shotgun going on.

FUTURE OF LOGISTICS

Will the future of logistics be a  battle between tech-based firms vs traditional, experienced logistics providers?  This digitization seems to be what is happening with forwarding and other transport segments.  How does blockchain change this battle?  What about warehousing with large volumes of e-commerce products with required velocity and random putaway--a blending of tech and new ways of product flows?

UPS AND FEXEX SELECTIVELY PICKING E-COMMERCE BUSINESS?

UPS & FedEx got a great boost with e-commerce. Are they now cherry picking instead of chasing opportunities? Are they & other logistics providers stuck in their biz models and missing organic growth? What will new competition do to their online standing?

https://theloadstar.co.uk/niche-opens-integrators-choose-not-bulk-e-commerce-deliveries/?utm_source=The+Loadstar+daily+email&utm_campaign=fc133602f4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c4570e43d4-fc133602f4-153458185

OVERSTOCK.COM AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Overstock. From WSJ. A case study of how logistics/Supply Chain Management drives e-commerce success and just selling online is not enough. Also about SCM future with blockchain and cryptocurrency. And why CEOs should be from SCM where the future is.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/overstock-com-pulls-stock-offering-after-sharp-decline-in-shares-1522706795?mod=djemlogistics