There’s no point in running… In your production resources, in your production orders, among your suppliers, you have hares and tortoises. The trick is to get there on time (yes,...
A chain, or network, is a system that brings together players with different motivations. A supply chain comprises suppliers and customers. Both want to maximize their profits, which can be...
Numerous software solutions, and not the least, are available to optimize inventories. Just Google “inventory optimization” and you’ll see a wide range of tools aimed at tackling stock management. In...
In mathematics, the law of large numbers is a fundamental principle of probability theory, which states that when a random experiment is repeated many times, the average of the results...
During the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, all kinds of predictions were made about the medal chances of different countries. Some have even developed algorithms, predictive models and business planning tools,...
Even if they don’t know it, the notion of a decoupling point is very familiar to your favorite pizza chef. Last week I made a call to the excellent pizzeria...
ERP systems are not renowned for their simplicity. With the overwhelming ERP system complexity, there is a lot of technical data and parameters to maintain. Planners are often lost or...
For you, it’s clear: it’s time to overhaul your supply chain practices—teams are under stress, performance is unsatisfactory, we’re not agile enough, and our systems are outdated. The need for...
At our June 2024 user conference Luca Cicchiello, Corporate VP of Supply Chain at Hutchinson, a global company with sales of over €4.5 billion, testified: “In our company, we’ve known...
A supply chain, industrial operations or distribution operations, is above all a flow. We start with raw materials, and a few steps later we have a finished product that meets...
I recently attended a Supply Chain conference, where it became clear that we, industry professionals, have been terrible predators – criminals. Over the past 4 decades, we have relocated production...
For your production orders or supplier orders, having promised dates in the past means you know how to travel time: “We’ll receive this last week” – remember the De Lorean?...
It’s no secret that AI is all vogue. When you’re in the supply chain software solutions business, if you don’t have AI, you’re a has-been. Don’t worry, we’ve started to...
Service rate – on time in full – is THE most important performance measure for a supply chain – it measures our ability to deliver on time. OK, but what...
Warning 1: this article is not (too) much about artificial intelligence, and not at all about generative artificial intelligence, or LLM. If you’re a fan of shiny stuff that contributes...
