Governments have been trying to come up with a solution to climate change and increasing greenhouse gas emissions for years. However, their success has been limited. So, it is time for businesses and individuals to take the reins, and one way to do that is through implementing green practices in supply chain management.
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Successful supply chain management is impossible without proper planning. However, the latter is not as easy as it sounds. In this blog post, you are going to learn about various supply chain planning levels (strategic, tactical, and operational) and dive deeper into strategic planning done with modeling.
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anyLogistix is used not only for business challenges but for academic purposes as well. Two students, Kunsh Puranik and Jiwon Suh, won first place along with a $3,000 scholarship prize using anyLogistix at The 2022 Supply Chain Sustainability Hackathon.
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Holding inventory is important as it allows organizations to operate continuously. However, having too much inventory could affect your business’s cash flow and hinder growth as the money tied up in excessive inventory can’t be invested in other areas.
Take a closer look at the inventory planning process in supply chain management and learn how technologies like simulation can help make the most of it.
As increased commodity and energy prices are fueling inflation and the geopolitical shift has caused supply disruptions, supply chain managers must plan for volatility and uncertainty. Integrating cost optimization into supply chain operations helps determine the optimal combination of cost, resilience, and quality that best contributes to business growth. From this blog post, learn what supply chain cost optimization is and how to make it work in 2022.
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Volatile supply and demand make it necessary to keep certain inventory levels to satisfy customers. Therefore, increasing a supply chain inventory level will increase customer service and revenue, but it comes at a cost. To reduce the inventory level and the costs associated with them across the entire supply chain, managers use multi-echelon inventory optimization.
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The specific requirements of cold chain logistics in pharma became a global concern during the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccines needed rapid worldwide distribution at an unprecedented scale. Simulation modeling played a key role in successfully meeting the challenge.
This article shows how the consultancy company Skkip created an appropriate cold chain solution and benefitted from using anyLogistix software in their work.
Meet anyLogistix 2.15! The new version offers a range of improvements, including scenario import and export with external databases.
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Sustainability has become an increasingly pressing issue in supply chain over the last few years. Rethinking and re-planning the activities of companies from a sustainable perspective is no longer a voluntary choice – they have become a duty – and companies are now called upon to question their environmental impact.
This supply chain sustainability case study, based on the dairy sector of the Italian food industry, presents several scenarios for increasing supply chain sustainability that can be mapped to suit different industries.
Supply chain disruption comes in many forms: from local issues such as a staff shortage or a warehouse fire, to global problems like the COVID-19 pandemic, or even events like the 2021 Suez Canal obstruction.
In this article, we will answer those questions. We will look at how forecasting, planning, and the creation of mitigation strategies can all help increase supply chain robustness and develop organizational agility for when change is necessary.
