Showing posts with label Supply Chain Management. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Supply Chain Management. Show all posts

January 24, 2026

Artificial Intelligence - AI Agents in Supply Chain Management - SCM

 

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15%

of day-to-day supply chain decisions are predicted to be made autonomously by AI agents by 2028, freeing human resources for more critical tasks.

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CSCOs and supply chain leaders

Discover agentic AI and generative AI trends shaping supply chain strategy

Learn how intelligent simulation and autonomous data collection drive operational excellence

Explore strategies for sustainability, compliance, and cybersecurity in digital supply chains

https://www.gartner.com/en/conferences/na/supply-chain-us/featured-topics/ai-and-emerging-tech


22.4.2025

How to transform global supply chain operations with agentic AI

Authors

Gaurav Malhotra

Supply Chain Technology Leader


Ayoub Abielmona

EY Global GenAI Supply Chain Leader


A powerful technology is set to revolutionize supply chains through autonomous execution and real-time adjustments.

https://www.ey.com/en_us/insights/supply-chain/revolutionizing-global-supply-chains-with-agentic-ai


Within the world of procurement and supply chain operations, AI agents can handle a range of responsibilities including supplier management, pricing, purchase order history, supply chain management and market analysis. AI agents can shift orders to alternative suppliers, reducing downtime and bottlenecks within the supply chain.



26.8.2025

Gopala Krishna Vemparala

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vemparalagopalakrishna/


Supply Chain & Operations Leader| Delivering Cost Savings, Risk Mitigation & Process Excellence |Strategic Sourcing | Supply Chain Project Management | Warehouse & Logistics Management | 9+ Years of Impact | IIM MumbaiSupply Chain & Operations Leader| Delivering Cost Savings, Risk Mitigation & Process Excellence |Strategic Sourcing | Supply Chain Project Management | Warehouse & Logistics Management | 9+ Years of Impact | IIM Mumbai

26.8.2025

10 Real-World Agentic AI Use Cases in Procurement




Agentic AI is more than a buzzword—it’s where procurement can finally move from reactive to proactive. Instead of humans chasing data and tasks, AI agents take initiative, act autonomously, and collaborate with us.

Here are 10 practical ways we’ll see it in action:

 1️⃣ Supplier Discovery – Agents scan global databases and news sources to propose new suppliers that fit cost, risk, and ESG needs.

 2️⃣ Contract Drafting – AI agents pre-build contracts, highlight risky clauses, and suggest negotiation levers.

 3️⃣ Category Insights – Automated category managers that track markets, price indices, and trends—then brief you daily.

 4️⃣ Supplier Performance Monitoring – Continuous KPI tracking with instant escalation and suggested improvement actions.

 5️⃣ Risk Sensing – Agents detect geopolitical, financial, or supply risks early and propose alternate sourcing.

 6️⃣ Tail Spend Automation – AI buys routine items end-to-end within policy, freeing humans for strategic work.

 7️⃣ RFP Orchestration – Agents manage timelines, supplier Q&A, and scoring to cut cycle times dramatically.

 8️⃣ Savings Tracking – Autonomous validation of claimed savings against actuals in P2P systems.

 9️⃣ Compliance Guardian – Real-time policy monitoring, ensuring every PO, contract, and supplier action aligns with governance.

 ðŸ”Ÿ ESG & Scope 3 Tracking – Agents collect, verify, and report sustainability data across the supplier base.

👉 The real shift? Procurement leaders move from managing processes to managing outcomes—with AI agents as co-pilots.


https://www.linkedin.com/posts/vemparalagopalakrishna_10-real-world-agentic-ai-use-cases-in-activity-7365948650000216065-l9v5







Ud. 11.10.2025

Pub. 26.8.2025




November 1, 2025

Supply Chain Resilience Index

 https://www.achilles.com/products/supply-chain-resilience-index/

https://www.bain.com/consulting-services/operations/supply-chain/supply-chain-resiliency-index/



Developing a strategic supply chain resiliency index: an assessment of the global lithium supply for U.S. automotive EV battery production

Hazel He,Thomas Brush,Hua Cai,Dutt Thakkar,Steve Dunlop &Stephan Biller

 Published online: 22 Jul 2025


we propose a supply chain strategic resiliency index (SRI) to comprehensively measure strategic SCR. The index integrates the consideration of supply network structure, supplier reliability (especially geopolitical risks), and each supplier’s contribution of material flow into a unified metric. Such an index can serve three primary purposes: (1) benchmarking the resilience of the existing supply chain, (2) evaluating the impact of strategic supply chain management decisions, and (3) assessing the resilience impact of new technology developments. As a use case, we analyzed the lithium supply chain of U.S. electric vehicle manufacturers, utilising real-world lithium imports and vehicle production data. Our results show that automakers are increasing their SCR, as exemplified by General Motors’ SRI increase from 27 in 2022 to 59 in 2023, and further to 65 in 2024.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00207543.2025.2534842#d1e330  (pdf downloaded)












September 24, 2024

Innovation Management Application in Supply Chain Management

 

Many interesting articles and papers are there on the topic



https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/top-10-supply-chain-innovations-maaz-khan-


https://www.mecalux.com/blog/supply-chain-innovation


https://6river.com/innovations-transforming-supply-chains/


https://www.viima.com/blog/supply-chain-innovation


https://www.michiganstateuniversityonline.com/resources/supply-chain/innovation-in-supply-chain-management/


https://www.americanexpress.com/en-us/business/trends-and-insights/articles/10-business-innovations-in-supply-chain-management/


https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324909940_Innovation_and_Supply_Chain_Management_Relationship_Collaboration_and_Strategies


https://www.ceo-worldwide.com/blog/essence-of-innovation-in-supply-chain-management/


https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/operations/articles/technologies-for-supply-chain-innovation.html


https://www.sap.com/resources/supply-chain-innovation-whats-next


https://hbr.org/2007/06/the-innovation-value-chain


2024

https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/the-top-supply-chain-innovations-of-the-year


https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-74304-2


https://americangloballogistics.com/suuply-chain-management-efficiency-and-success/


https://sloanreview.mit.edu/tag/supply-chain-innovation/


https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340717737_THE_MANAGEMENT_OF_INNOVATION_IN_SUPPLY_CHAIN


https://supplychainmanagement.utk.edu/blog/emerging-technology-innovation-in-supply-chain/


https://ctl.mit.edu/research/past-projects/supply-chain-innovation


https://academic.oup.com/icc/article/19/2/399/717837


https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10580530.2020.1818898


https://www.industryweek.com/leadership/companies-executives/article/21956832/supply-chain-innovation


https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/BPMJ-05-2016-0109/full/html


https://www.pomsmeetings.org/ConfProceedings/043/FullPapers/FullPaper_files/043-0184.pdf



https://blog.som.cranfield.ac.uk/execdev/supply-chain-innovations


https://www.koganpage.com/logistics-supplychain-operations/logistics-and-supply-chain-innovation-9781398607484


https://www.academia.edu/23049980/Innovation_management_in_the_Construction_Supply_Chain


https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics-365/topics/supply-chain-management/supply-chain-technology-innovation-trends



December 28, 2023

Supply Chain Management - Subject Update


 2024 Perspectives - Themes for Operations and Supply Chain Management & Managers.
In 2024— productivity, technology enablement, and sustainability are the key drivers of future success. 

2021

Study Details Baseline Needs to Bring Factories into Compliance with Labor Standards.
December 20, 2021  |  Carly Brown
Researchers from North Carolina State University have conducted an in-depth study to establish all of the actions apparel factories will need to take in order to come into compliance with international labor standards. The study is a first step toward determining what such compliance would cost consumers, and building support for making the needed changes.



2020

Connected Planning, DDMRP and IBP
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1 July 2020
http://scmproknowledge.in/video/connected-planning-ddmrp-and-integrated-business-planning-the-way-forward/
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The Future of Supply Chain - NITIE Alumni Association Webinar!
22 Apr 2020

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2019


Trends in Supply Chain Design and Management: Technologies and Methodologies

Hosang Jung, Fengshan Frank Chen, Bongju Jeong
Springer Science & Business Media, 17-Jul-2007 - Business & Economics - 451 pages

With the rapid development of information and network technologies and market requirements, new challenges in supply chain design and management have emerged. Notably, there are four new technologies which can affect traditional supply chain management: Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology; mobile transaction technology; information handling and storage technology; and multi-agent technology. These new technologies enable global companies to change their ways of thinking about supply chain management in order to cope with the changing environment. In line with this rapid development of technologies are new challenging methodologies: sustainable supply chain management, advanced supply chain planning, available-to-promise (ATP) system and lean supply chain design and management.

Trends in Supply Chain Design and Management: Technologies and Methodologies is a collection of chapters from active researchers and practitioners which describe new trends in supply chain design and management with emphasis on technologies and methodologies. Each chapter contains guidelines detailing the real-world application(s) of the presented technologies and methodologies.

By reading Trends in Supply Chain Design and Management: Technologies and Methodologies, researchers will gain an insight into the evolving trends in supply chain design and management and practitioners will learn about the practical applications of the technologies and methodologies discussed. This book could also be used as a reference handbook by lecturers and postgraduate students in advanced supply chain design and management.

Number of supply chain management faculty of IE departments contributed to this volume.
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=njrVuHORZxsC



London UK, 14th June - Siemens Digital Industries Software announced today the immediate availability of Siemens Opcenter™ software, a cohesive portfolio of software solutions for manufacturing operations management (MOM).

Siemens Opcenter integrates MOM capabilities including advanced planning and scheduling, manufacturing execution, quality management, manufacturing intelligence and performance, and formulation, specification and laboratory management. The new portfolio combines products including Camstar™ software, SIMATIC IT® suite, Preactor, R&D Suite and QMS Professional into a single portfolio that unifies these widely recognised products and leverages synergies between them. A fully web-based, modern, consistent, adaptive and comfortable user interface implemented throughout the Siemens Opcenter portfolio offers a situationally adapted user experience and facilitates the implementation of new capabilities and additional components while reducing training efforts.

http://www.connectingindustry.com/DesignSolutions/siemens-launches-siemens-opcenter-a-new-unified-portfolio-of-manufacturing-operations-management-solutions--.aspx

IBM Launches Supply Chain Anomaly Detection Tool
By PYMNTS Posted on May 15, 2019
https://www.pymnts.com/news/b2b-payments/2019/ibm-supply-chain-anomaly/

Top Companies for Supply Chain Excellence 2018
https://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2019/05/top-companies-for-supply-chain.html

Zero-Based Productivity Management of Supply Chain - McKinsey Way Supply Chain Industrial Engineering
https://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2019/04/zero-based-productivity-management-of.html


Supply Chain Industrial Engineering - Online Book (2013-2019)
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2012/09/supply-chain-industrial-engineering.html


2018

Automation in supply chains
https://twitter.com/Soham_DSouza/status/1012588607431774208/photo/1


Where I see Procurement in 2025
June 26, 2018
Mark Perera
CEO of Old St Labs / Founder of Procurement Leaders
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/where-i-see-procurement-2025-mark-perera/

A road map for digitizing source-to-pay
By Kalit Jain and Ed Woodcock
April 2017
https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/operations/our-insights/a-road-map-for-digitizing-source-to-pay

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/watson/2018/04/manage-procurement-contracts-with-less-effort-more-accuracy-with-watson-compliance-assist/


IBM Procurement's New Chapter: Innovation ebook
https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?htmlfid=UVM12368USEN

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/watson-customer-engagement/2016/07/14/5-steps-to-harnessing-the-power-of-supplier-innovation/

https://www-01.ibm.com/events/wwe/empower/empower16.nsf/Session%201010_IBM_Cognitive%20Procurement%20-%20The%20Future%20is%20Here!_Emptoris%20and%20Watson%20OM%20team.pdf

https://www.ibm.com/blogs/insights-on-business/sap-consulting/cognitive-gives-procurement-respect-deserves/




August 2017

10 ways big data is revolutionising supply chain management
https://www.cloudcomputing-news.net/news/2015/sep/07/10-ways-big-data-is-revolutionizing-supply-chain-management/

March 2016



Procurement Trends in India - ISM - India - 2016 Survey
http://ism-india.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Procurement-Trends-2016.pdf


Smart Supply Chains - IBM Paper
https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/global/files/se__sv_se__none__smarter-sc_v2.pdf

Adoption ABC Costing
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.627.9383&rep=rep1&type=pdf


Supply Chain Cost Cutting
http://www.percon.com/whitepapers/Supply_Chain_Cost-Cutting_Strategies.pdf  - 2007


M2M Model and Supply Chains
https://www.opto22.com/documents/1425_White_Paper_M2M_and_the_Supply_Chain.pdf

About Access Sup Chain Software
http://www.theaccessgroup.com/sectors/supply-chain/manufacturing/



May 2015


Supply Chain Engineering - Activity Based Cost Management
http://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2015/05/supply-chain-engineering-activity-based.html



April 2015


Supply Chain Management - Coordination - Updated


March 2015


Selection of Supplier in a Two Stage Supply Chain - An Integer Linear Programming Approach
A. John Rajan, K. Ganesh, and K.N. Balan
https://www.academia.edu/8202258/SELECTION_OF_SUPPLIER_IN_A_TWO_STAGE_SUPPLY_CHAIN_-A_INTEGER_LINEAR_PROGRAMMING_APPROACH

Uploaded by A. John Rajan

Cost-effective supply chains: Optimizing product development through integrated design and sourcing
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/applications/plm/landingdtw/GW510_5097_00F_2.pdf

PWC Sup Chain survey results
http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/consulting-services/supply-chain/global-supply-chain-survey/


Efficient Transportation Logistics Can Reduce Other Supply Chain Costs
http://www.genco.com/Logistics-Articles/article.php?aid=800513154

January 2015



Top 25 Supply Chains of 2014


http://www.industryweek.com/top-25-supply-chains#slide-0-field_images-119891




25 Nestle


Innovative Methods in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

August 2014 book - Collected articles. Appx 500 pages
You can download the full book from
https://hicl.org/sites/hicl.org/files/books/2014/blecker-2014-innovative-methods-logistics-and-supply-chain-management.pdf

IRMS|360 Enterprise Supply Chain Management Software


irms|360 Enterprise is designed to optimize efficiency at every level of the distribution supply chain. End-to-end visibility of products, people and process helps your organization achieve an unprecedented level of accountability. Higher visibility leads to absolute efficiency, improving customer satisfaction and increasing profits.

With off-the-shelf integration to industry leading manufacturing (MRP), enterprise (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, irms|360 Enterprise is a cloud-based solution that can be delivered over the web as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or can be delivered as an on-premise solution.

Best and All Time Best Supply Chain Management Books


- Clockspeed: Winning Industry Control in the Age of Temporary Advantage by Charles H. Fine

- Designing and Managing the Supply Chain by David Simchi-Levi, Philip Kaminsky and Edith Simchi-Levi

- Essentials of Supply Chain Management by Michael H. Hugos

- Logistics and Supply Chain Management by Martin Christopher

- Logistics Management and Strategy: Competing through the Supply Chain   by Alan Harrison and Remko Van Hoek

- Purchasing and Supply Chain Management by Robert Monczka, Robert Handfield, Larry Giunipero and James Patterson

- Purchasing and Supply Chain Management: Analysis, Strategy, Planning and Practice by Arjan J. Van Weele

- Strategic Supply Chain Management: The Five Core Disciplines for Top Performance by Shoshanah Cohen and Joseph Roussel

- Supply Chain Logistics Management by Donald Bowersox, David Closs and M. Bixby Cooper

- Supply Chain Management, Strategy, Planning and Operation by Sunil Chopra and Peter Meindl

- The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage  by Yossi Sheffi

http://www.supplychainopz.com/2013/03/supply-chain-management.html


Supply Chain Management  Subject Update - 2014




Updated on 10 July 2020,  23 April 2020,  22 September 2019, 10 June 2019, 17 May 2019,  1 May 2019,  28 June 2017,  22 August 2017,  8 March 2016, 8 Dec 2015






August 21, 2023

Supply Chain Excellence

 


Kapil Verma

PGDIE - NITIE - IIM Mumbai

Supply Chain Excellence Lead

Kenvue 

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kapil-verma-770b0326/


Connected and autonomous supply chain ecosystems 2025

https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/industries/industrial-manufacturing/digital-supply-chain.html


Johnson & Johnson Supply chain

https://www.jnj.com/tag/supply-chain


2016

https://ispe.org/pharmaceutical-engineering/september-october-2016/creating-supply-chain-excellence-achieving

Driving Supply Chain Excellence: Understanding Improvement and Performance

Lora Cecere

Lora Cecere is the Founder of Supply Chain Insights.

Sep 18, 2015

https://www.forbes.com/sites/loracecere/2015/09/18/driving-supply-chain-excellence-understanding-improvement-and-performance/?sh=50448fbd1b9e


2011


Supply Chain Excellence: A Handbook for Dramatic Improvement Using the SCOR Model

Peter Bolstorff, Robert Rosenbaum

AMACOM, 11-Dec-2011 - Business & Economics - 304 pages

The Supply Chain Operation Reference (SCOR) framework is a proven solution to the ever-present business struggle of strengthening and improving company-wide processes.


This leading cross-industry model for maximizing efficiency provides you with a lasting competitive advantage, revealing the key to achieving flawless production in a compressed timeline. By incorporating the proven Supply Chain Council DCOR and CCOR models to expand the process scope, Supply Chain Excellence offers a comprehensive look at the entire value chain process and provides you with a step-by-step guide for implementing an improvement strategy that will help your organization succeed.


With examples and insights from nearly one hundred supply chain improvement projects to draw from, you will learn how to:


identify the causes of misalignment in their company;

utilize a scorecard to analyze and evaluate their current processes;

strategize, prioritize, and implement a new method;

incorporate management techniques such as Six Sigma and Lean;

and quantify the financial value of supply chain improvement.

Supply Chain Excellence also adapts the use of the SCOR model for an SAP environment, global enterprises, and small businesses to help any organization keep its sales, manufacturing, distribution, and inventory moving in perfect synchronization.





2003

Supply Chain Excellence: A Handbook for Dramatic Improvement Using the SCOR Model

Peter Bolstorff, Robert Rosenbaum

First Edition

https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Supply_Chain_Excellence.html?id=AbQlV9ulC-EC   












August 20, 2023

Operations and Supply Chain Management Knowledge Center



Operations and Supply Chain Management Knowledge Center

MBA Programs Information and Summaries of Book Chapters, Articles & Case Studies Information



Operations Management - Krajewski  et al. Book- 12th Edition - Chapter Summaries


Important Points - Summary


Chapters



1. Using Operations to Create Value

Supplement A: Decision Making



PART I: MANAGING PROCESSES

2. Process Strategy and Analysis

3. Quality and Performance

4. Capacity Planning

Supplement B: Waiting Lines

5. Constraint Management

6. Lean Systems

7. Project Management



PART II: MANAGING CUSTOMER DEMAND

8. Forecasting

9. Inventory management

Supplement C: Special Inventory Models

10. Operations Planning and Scheduling

Supplement D: Linear Programming

11. Resource Planning



PART III: MANAGING SUPPLY CHAINS

12. Supply Chain Design

13. Supply Chain Logistic Networks

14. Supply Chain Integration

15. Supply Chain Sustainability



Text Book
Operations Management for Competitive Advantage

Richard B. Chase, University of Southern California
F. Robert Jacobs, Indiana University–Bloomington
Nicholas J. Aquilano, University of Arizona
McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 0072506369
Copyright year: 2004


Review Notes for Quick Revision of the chapters in the Operations Management Text. 





SECTION ONE: OPERATIONS STRATEGY AND MANAGING CHANGE

1. Introduction to the Field
2. Operations Strategy and Competitiveness
Technical note 2 Learning Curves
3. Project Management

SECTION TWO: PRODUCT DESIGN AND PROCESS SELECTION

4. Process Analysis
Technical note 4 Job Design and Work Measurement
5. Product Design and Process Selection—Manufacturing
Technical note 5 Facility Layout
6. Product Design and Process Selection—Services
Technical note 6 Waiting Line Management
7. Total Quality Management: Focus on Six Sigma
Technical note 7 Process Capability and Statistical Quality Control
8. Operations Consulting and Reengineering

SECTION THREE: SUPPLY CHAIN DESIGN
(Managerial Briefing Electronic Commerce and E-Ops©)

9. Supply Chain Strategy
10. Strategic Capacity Management
Technical note 10 Facility Location
11. Just-in-Time and Lean Systems

SECTION FOUR: PLANNING AND CONTROLLING THE SUPPLY CHAIN
(Managerial Briefing Enterprise Resource Planning Systems)

12. Forecasting
13. Aggregate Sales and Operations Planning
14. Inventory Control
15. Material Requirements Planning
16. Operations Scheduling
Technical note 16 Simulation
17. Synchronous Manufacturing and Theory of Constraints

SUPPLEMENTS


B. Financial Analysis
C. Operations Technology

Many articles were revised in 2015 using the 12th Edition of the Book



Nigel Slack et al. Operations Management - 7th Edition - Chapters Summaries


 Chapter 1   Operations management

https://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2014/10/introduction-to-operations-management.html


Industrial Engineering and Operations Management - Distinction and Combination

https://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2019/04/industrial-engineering-and-operations.html


AIIE


“Industrial engineering is concerned with the design, improvement, and installation of integrated systems of men, materials, and equipment. It draws upon specialized knowledge and skill in the mathematical, physical, and social sciences together with the principles and methods of engineering analysis and design, to specify, predict, and evaluate the results to be obtained from such systems.” (AIIE, 1955). [4]


AIIE (Revised)


"Industrial engineering is concerned with the design, improvement and installation of integrated systems of people, materials, information, equipment and energy. It draws upon specialized knowledge and skill in the mathematical, physical, and social sciences together with the principles and methods of engineering analysis and design, to specify, predict, and evaluate the results to be obtained from such systems." [7]


Narayana Rao (2017)

Industrial engineering is  system efficiency engineering.


Top 0.5% of Publications on Academia.Edu  for the first 2 months  21st June 2023 Upload Date.

INTRODUCTION TO MODERN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING by Narayana Rao Kvss.

121 Pages. Free Download.    

https://www.academia.edu/103626052/INTRODUCTION_TO_MODERN_INDUSTRIAL_ENGINEERING_Version_3_0


Chapter 2    Operations performance

What is Operational Excellence in Manufacturing and Supply Chain?

https://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2015/03/what-is-operational-excellence-in.html


KPIs

Procurement KPIs : Accuracy, Operational, Supplier and Financial level Procurement Key performance indicators


Important Key Performance Indicators(KPIs) for Strategic Human Resource(HR) management


https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/business-performance-measurement/measuring-performance-the-operations-management-perspective/D5A2AADC793B303BC59CFEEB82E15FED

 Chapter 3   Operations strategy

 Chapter 4   Process design


Production Process Planning - Sub-Module of Process Industrial Engineering

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/07/production-process-planning-sub-module.html


Process Strategy and Analysis - Important Points - Summary - Krajewski - 12th Edition

https://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2019/08/process-strategy-and-analysis-important.html


Product Design and Process Selection—Services - Review Notes

https://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/product-design-and-process.html


Chapter 5  Innovation and design in services and products

Design of Services and Products - Nigel Slack - Chapter Summary

https://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2023/07/design-of-services-and-products-nigel.html


Chapter 6 Supply network design



Chapter 9 People, jobs and organization

https://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2023/06/people-jobs-and-organization-operations.html






New Books


https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Operations_and_Supply_Chain_Management_f.html?id=ejahEAAAQBAJ

https://www.wiley.com/en-ae/Operations+and+Supply+Chain+Management+for+MBAs%2C+8th+Edition-p-9781119898641

Creating Value: The Complete Guide to Procurement Transformation 

Paperback – September 6, 2019
by Logan Dan Gatewood (Author), Dan Gatewood (Contributor)
Logan Gatewood, MID
President & CEO at Trident Management Consulting LLC, Brenham, Texas

I have spent the last 15 years gathering information I wanted to share with those in the supply chain profession, and have compiled those experiences into this book.  It is a relatively quick read, but densely packed with tools and techniques to aid anyone who is undertaking a procurement transformation.  It also compiles a lot of lessons learned about change management, leadership, and some specific traits of some of the most effective supply chain leaders I have ever encountered.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1691263516/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=creating+value+procurement+transformation&qid=1567860799


Plan is to add Lecture Notes, Summary Material on 10 Subjects of Operations and Supply Chain Management Elective Stream

Operations and Supply Chain Management - MBA Programmes and Curricula

https://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2019/09/operations-and-supply-chain-management.html


Operations Management - Book - Krajewski et al. - 12th Edition - Chapter Summaries - Important Points

https://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2019/08/operations-management-krajewski-12th.html

Operations Management - Chase et al. Book - Review Notes - List of Chapters

https://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/operations-management-review-notes-list.html

Supply Chain Management: Review Notes Based on Chopra and Meindl's Book

Chopra and Meindl's book, Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation, is a comprehensive introduction on supply chain management.
https://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2011/12/supply-chain-management-review-notes.html




Operations and Supply Chain Management - Case Studies


Top Global Companies for Supply Chain Excellence - Supply Chain Strategies and Initiatives


Subject Updates


Operations Management   -   Supply Chain Management - Manufacturing Management

Productivity and Industrial Engineering  -  Negotiation




Ud. 20.8.2023
Pub. 7.9.2019




August 7, 2023

Supply Chain Analytics - Introduction and Bibliography



What is a supply chain control tower?

A supply chain control tower is a connected, personalized dashboard of data, key business metrics and events across the supply chain. A supply chain control tower enables organizations to more fully understand, prioritize and resolve critical issues in real time. Supply chain control tower collects all data and utilizes supply chain analytics to present the data to decision makers in various formats and decision related levels.

Descriptive Analytics
Diagnostic Analytics
Predictive Analytics
Prescriptive Analytics

Descriptive Analytics

Using Descriptive Analytics to Improve Supply Chain Visibility for Variability, Velocity, Volume, and Variety.

Diagnostic Analytics

Supply Chain Diagnostic: A Four-Step Process.
Insights on performing a supply chain diagnostics and improving supply chain planning.

Predictive Analytics

What Is Predictive Analytics?
As its name implies, predictive analytics is about predicting future trends such as sales demand, exchange rates and other important supply chain metrics. The technique relies on the application of statistical modeling and regression analysis to historical data to determine and understand trends and formulate future trends.
Supply Chain Predictive Analytics: What Is It and Who's Doing It?


Prescriptive Analytics

Prescriptive analytics: For supply chain planning processes that need recommendations for more efficient and data-based decision-making, prescriptive analytics is recommended. It can employ techniques like AI and machine learning. An example is a business that wants advice on a possible outcome and what suggested actions they should take.
Using Prescriptive Analytics for Supply Chain Planning

A smarter control tower should provide end-to-end visibility across the supply chain — particularly into unforeseen external events.

Supply chain executives are under enormous pressure to provide customers what they need — when and where they need it — while also optimizing supply operations and achieving cost-saving goals. This is especially challenging in times of unpredictable yet inevitable vulnerabilities and disruptions.

Types of supply chain control towers

Logistics/transportation control towers
Logistics/transportation control towers offer advance shipping notifications, delivery data and track-and-trace information — and visibility into inbound and outbound logistics.

Fulfillment control towers
Fulfillment control towers specialize in assisting package shipments, and are designed to help expedite orders while reducing the overall cost-to-serve.

Inventory control towers
Inventory control towers enable real-time insights into inventory management, with special emphasis on preventing inventory stock-outs and shortages.

Supply assurance control towers
Supply assurance control towers ensure there’s an adequate supply available, that more supply is planned for delivery, and other matters related to supply.

E2E supply chain control towers
E2E supply chain control towers are engineered to provide visibility across internal and external systems and processes, with applications for various departments or entities.



Supply Chain Analytics - Video Lectures - NPTEL



A good comprehensive essay

Big Data Analytics and Its Applications in Supply Chain Management


Deloitte on Supply Chain Analytics


Like in various others parts of business, analytics which is a combination of statistics and data processing power of computers has enabled the processing of supply chain related data to point out cost reduction or profit improving niches.

Deloitte consultants pointed out the following.

Parametric pricing: The new parts a manufacturer procures differ only in small, specific ways from earlier versions in number of cases. A company with good parametric price modeling ability can identify these parameters of change in new parts and use them to determine what the net price change should be. That expedites the negotiating process and helps a company avoid overpayment.

Commodities price volatility:  Raw materials fluctuate in price and makes business planning difficult. Unexpected price jumps can damage margin. Companies can use analytics to develop macroeconomic models and come out with better predictions – and use options, futures and contract provisions to hedge.

M&A integration: When the merger is between two companies in the same industry,   they may be using the same parts/materials in their operations, but may have different material numbers and most likely different purchasing prices. After merger, such parts can be identified using analytics so that buyers can rationalize their procurement and save money.
https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/operations/articles/supply-chain-analytics-how-hard-should-you-squeeze.html

https://www2.deloitte.com/tw/en/pages/deloitte-analytics/solutions/process.html





2021

Supply Chain 4.0: Improving Supply Chains with Analytics and Industry 4.0 Technologies

Emel Aktas, Michael Bourlakis, Ioannis Minis, Vasileios Zeimpekis
Kogan Page Publishers, 03-Feb-2021 - Business & Economics - 312 pages

Supply Chain 4.0 has introduced automation into logistics and supply chain processes, exploiting predictive analytics to better match supply with demand, optimizing operations and using the latest technologies for the last mile delivery such as drones and autonomous robots.

Supply Chain 4.0 presents new methods, techniques, and information systems that support the coordination and optimization of logistics processes, reduction of operational costs as well as the emergence of entirely new services and business processes.

This edited collection includes contributions from leading international researchers from academia and industry. It considers the latest technologies and operational research methods available to support smart, integrated, and sustainable logistics practices focusing on automation, big data, Internet of Things, and decision support systems for transportation and logistics. It also highlights market requirements and includes case studies of cutting-edge applications from innovators in the logistics industry.

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=gXgWEAAAQBAJ

2019



SIX TRENDS THAT WILL IMPACT PROCUREMENT IN THE DIGITAL AGE
September 9, 2019 Kumar Singh
https://supplychainanalytics.guru/2019/09/09/six-trends-that-will-impact-procurement-in-the-digital-age/

“Without the right tech investment, you aren’t optimized and you aren’t synchronized.”

Domo’s approach,  is that organizations need to link supply and demand in order to understand the customer in the middle and ensure transparent reporting throughout.

Synchronizing the two creates collaboration, and collaboration starts with data. Domo offers a variety of simple, intuitive ways to get the right data to the right people, from live data dashboards with predictive alerts to internal reports delivered across the organization. Colgate-Palmolive’s Ann Tracy argued that collaboration is needed to study, analyze and apply data analysis. Data needs to be accessible across each function of the business—from senior leaders on down to more junior staff—and ultimately add value for the end user.
https://www.domo.com/blog/gartner-scc-diary-part-3-people-data-and-systems-arent-sustainable-without-each-other/

2013

In 2013 the Journal of Business Logistics published a white paper calling for   research into the possible applications of Big Data within supply chain management. Since then, significant steps have been taken.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2016/04/22/how-big-data-and-analytics-are-transforming-supply-chain-management/#cf32d3b39ad2

IWCR SAS Report on Supply Chain Analytics in 2010



Predicting demand accurately in volatile conditions requires sophisticated math based forecasting that can include downstream consumption data such as point-of-sales data, and model the impact of sales promotions, price, and other factors on demand. Analytics provides the capability.

SAS identified the follow levels of analytics.

8 LEVELS OF ANALYTICS


Level 1: Standard reports
Level 2: Ad hoc reports
Level 3: Query drilldown (or OLAP)
Level 4: Alerts
Level 5: Statistical analysis
Level 6: Forecasting
Level 7: Predictive modeling
Level 8: Optimization


When a company’s supply-chain management is fueled with data-driven insights, it is more effective at controlling costs, thereby protecting profits.

SAS emphasizes:
1. Efficiency and performance gains require predictive, data-driven insights.
2. Analytics are the wave of the future for next-generation supply-chains.


SAS Case Study STEEL MANUFACTURER IMPROVES PERFORMANCE, PROFITABILITY


A large, Asian manufacturer of steel (19,000 employees working to produce 28.5 million tons of steel annually), provided analytics support to  two of its process innovation (PI) programs using sas’s software.  the PI programs had a goal of updating 30-year-old business practices to improve efficiency and competitiveness. First, the company used sas to extract, transfer, and transform its ERP and legacy data into a data warehouse. secondly, the company combined sas’s analysis capabilities with its six sigma Project  tracking system. this combination allows managers to gather data on PI
projects, identify most-critical quality issues, and analyze them for root causes. By enabling daily and monthly monitoring, the company can resolve issues early on and improve overall manufacturing processes with the first PI phase, the company achieved a 50 percent reduction in lead times for standard hot coil production (from 30 days to 14 days), and a 60 percent reduction in inventory (from 1 million tons to 400,000 tons).

Further, by analyzing and then making necessary improvements to the manufacturing process, the company was able to reduce the scrap ratio on hot coil from 15 percent to 1.5 percent, leading to additional savings and  resulting in a total ROI of over $15.5 million in less than two years.

Source:  IW/SAS Supply-Chain Analytics Survey.  Email survey: Between June 8 and June 15, 2010,
Penton Research e-mailed invitations to participate in an online survey to 37,629 IndustryWeek print subscribers.  By June 30, 2010, Penton Research received 398 responses, a 1.1 percent response rate. Of those, 210 respondents that were involved in their companies’ supply-chain operations were considered qualified to answer the questions.






http://www.wipro.com/services/analytics/services/supply-chain-analytics/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2016/04/22/how-big-data-and-analytics-are-transforming-supply-chain-management/




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Supply Chain Analytics and Modelling: Quantitative Tools and Applications

Nicoleta Tipi · 2021
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Peter W. Robertson · 2021
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