ACCOUNTING AND SUPPLY CHAIN VELOCITY

What would be the performance and velocity of Supply Chains if accounting, drawing on principles older than than Model T, did not so focus on the logistics components of freight and warehousing? While relegating inventory to the annual balance sheet.

WAREHOUSES AND MID-SIZE MANUFACTURERS AND RETAILERS

A Supply Chain challenge for mid-size retailers & CPG manufacturers is Warehouse Alignment.  The need for more warehouses for Order Delivery Velocity yet the volumes struggle to justify the number of warehouses needed.

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT OR TRAFFIC & WAREHOUSING

Amazon exposed that, for many #manufacturers & #retailers, their #SCM is really #traffic & #warehousing.  Now in the time of #velocity, they struggle.

SUPPLY CHAIN DISCONNECT AND OCEAN CARRIERS

The disconnect between what #BCO buyers of #OceanTransport need for #SupplyChainVelocity and what ocean carriers are offering is a serious performance issue.

WHERE IS MY ORDER?

Where's my order?  Is this what your #ecommerce customers say?  Do you lack #OrderDeliveryVelocity?  Did you transform your #SupplyChain to have velocity?  If "no" to these, it may be fair to ask why you are selling online.

DISRUPTION IN LOGISTICS AND IN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

In a time of turbulence and disruption for #logistics and for #SupplyChainManagement is stay the course a wise approach?

WAREHOUSES AND INVENTORY TRAPS

The #NewSupplyChain requires #velocity. #SupplyChains were traditionally built around #Warehouses which can be an #Inventory trap--which are the nemesis of velocity.

CONTAINER LINES VERSUS SUPPLY CHAIN / INVENTORY VELOCITY

How do you direct an international #SupplyChain when you cannot depend on the service of a critical #logistics provider, #ContainerLines? The impact on #inventory and #InventoryVelocity!

BLOCKCHAIN FOR LOGISTICS / BLOCKCHAIN FOR SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Thinking that stories of #blockchain for #logistics and #SupplyChainManagement seem like variations of #TrackAndTrace.

SUPPLY CHAIN OPTIMIZATION AND INVENTORY OPTIMIZATION

#SupplyChainManagement, #optimization can be  misapplied with the reality of #SupplyChain dynamics. #SupplyChainOptimization & #InventoryOptimization?? #TimeCompression, especially for international #SCM, is the best way to "optimize" by creating velocity.

SUPPLY CHAIN VELOCITY AND SUPPLY CHAIN COMPLEXITY

Achieving #SupplyChainVelocity and #InventoryVelocity requires understanding that #SupplyChainComplexity--

* #SupplyChains are not linear.  That is a myth.

* There are Supply Chains within Supply Chains.

KEY ISSUES FOR FORWARDERS AND LOGISTICS SERVICE PROVIDERS

Big issues for #forwarders are technology, #disintermediation, strategy, and differentiation in a time of significant disruption for what is viewed as a commodity industry.

OUTDATED SUPPLY CHAINS

In a time of dynamic #disruption, many #SupplyChains are dated.  This presents risk to companies.

MEDIUM AND SMALL FIRMS, SUPPLY CHAIN AND LOGISTICS DISRUPTION

Too many stories about #Logistics and #SupplyChain #disruption focus on what the mega firms are doing.  Leaving the medium and small firms out in the cold—and their needs and situation to compete.

NEED FOR CYCLE COUNTING

Does the need for cycle counting reflect underlying issues with technology, process, discipline, and lack of a robust WMS to recount inventories. Is cycle counting a waste in lean?

LAST MILE AND TRUCK SIZES

In the rush to gain from the #LastMile frenzy, some carriers have not aligned equipment with type of deliveries in residential and apartment areas.  Adding to their costs and challenging delivery efficiencies.

3PLs, LOGISTICS PROVIDERS, AND THE FIVE FORCES

#3PLs and other #logistics providers may be at their greatest threat as to the #FiveForces"--Competition, Potential New Entrants, Power of customers; Threat of Substitutes, and Power of Suppliers.  The disruptors of technology and supply chain velocity are two drivers for the threat.

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT IS THE OPERATIONS FOR MANY COMPANIES

#SupplyChainManagement is THE operations for #ecommerce, for #CPGmanufacturers who buy #finishedgoods, and for #retail. So why have been and are so many firms laggards at investing in #SupplyChain structure? Time to ante up and transform.

SUPPLY CHAIN EYE

The all-knowing eye of #SupplyChainManagement

SUPPLY CHAIN EMPHASIS SHIFT FROM LOGISTICS TO FLOW

Amazon's using #SCM to drive its #ecommerce #OrderVelocity is making companies transform their #SupplyChains from being focused on #logistics and the costs to having #EndToEndSupplyChain flow emphasis.  The #laggards are talking #LastMile costs.