Most supply chain applications that Logility works on have significant ROIs. But sometimes it’s hard to see where the return on investment will be coming from. At Logility, we focus on the tangible benefits of improving your supply chain and how we go about producing hard-number results. We’re all very well versed in the traditional areas to look for: cost structure, growth, …
Improving Your Supply Chain with Analytics and Collaboration
A leading retailer in the home improvement space was having issues delivering timely reports to its suppliers. They were not capable of providing sell-through reports and this negatively impacted inventory levels and supplier distribution channels. Maintaining their market advantage came at the cost of great complexity – with more than 80,000 individual items for sale at any …
Seven Keys to Scaling your Supplier Scorecarding Program
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Driving Supply Chain Analytics User Adoption with Cross-Departmental Metrics
User adoption is a challenge that often arises during the rollout of supply chain analytics solutions. Users are accustomed to building everything in Excel and manipulating the data as needed for their own particular use, typically using static reports or spreadsheets that are siloed in specific departmental needs. The obvious danger of this is that business rules and data …
How To Implement Predictive Analytics Into Your Company
Chances are, if you’re in marketing, sales, or one of the more technical aspects of business, you’ve used predictive analytics in some part of your job. Retail giant Amazon uses predictive analytics to study the behaviors of over 200 million customers who produce over 1 billion GB of website data per year, which results in tailored product suggestions that earn the company over …
Amplify Your Supply Chain While Capitalizing on your IT Infrastructure
Ampacet Corporation is the world’s leading manufacturer of the pelletized pigments that add colors to plastics. The company spans the globe with 12 manufacturing sites on four continents. Managing the supply chain of such a global enterprise is challenging. “We’d never had a global view of our organization,” explained John Smith, Data Warehousing Manager. “We had reports …
Five Suggestions for Practical Inventory Management
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How to Get Started with Value-add Forecasting (Part 2)
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Improve Forecast Quality and Reliability with Value-add Forecasting (Part 1)
In the world of commerce, every business ecosystem has a type of supply chain that is critical to corporate operations.These supply chains rely on a network of plants and facilities to add value to, and transform, raw materials into a final product. Any disruption or sub-optimization in the supply chain can and will significantly impact a company’s profitability. The ability …
Five Elements of Successful Sales Forecasting
If not, you are not alone. While extremely valuable, any reputation forecasting has can quickly be tarnished by bad experiences. Common pitfalls include the lack of a consistent and agreed upon process, and the challenges of using cumbersome, expensive software tools. However, companies do find ways to address these concerns. A more fundamental issue is knowing what business …
