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Ten years ago, “What’s an environmental scientist doing in supply chain analysis?” would have been a good question. I might have even asked it myself before I took that exact step across the two industries. These days, however, news items regularly illustrate the links between climate events and supply chain disruption: From sourcing and production …
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It’s Father’s Day, and we at Profit Point want to take a moment to celebrate our fathers and the impact they have had on us.  Fathers guide us by teaching us core values, and, more importantly, show us how to live by them. Although we are spread to all corners of the country, these individuals …
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We’ve been at supply chain network design for a long time – 26 years – and in all that time, one thing we’ve never seen is things getting simpler for the supply chain modeler. Even as the tools have improved for taking into account production scheduling, production planning, demand planning, supply planning, distribution planning, and …
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What does analytics mean?  To you, that is.  According to Google Trends, the popularity of “analytics” as a topic peaked sometime between December 2011 and April 2012.   Is “analytics” just a buzzword for business reporting?  Or, perhaps, we’ve forgotten the purpose of analytics: to make informed decisions faster and more accurately. In April 2022, Profit …
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Times are changing – and so are supply chains and the manufacturing scheduling software that helps keep them humming. Manufacturers, warehouses, retailers, distribution centers, and transportation providers are re-examining the way they approach business. The challenge is clear: to combat supply chain disruptions, implement new omnichannel fulfillment strategies, and help expand new markets and emerging …
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At Profit Point, we value diversity.  Diversity at Profit Point enables us to approach problem solving from multiple perspectives to generate multi-dimensional and robust solutions. It supports us in understanding the wide range of stakeholders in our client’s organizations with whom we interact  on a daily basis.  And it makes the work we do more …
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The Covid-19 pandemic outbreak placed many corporate sectors under unprecedented pressure.  Global supply chains were heavily impacted with the sudden disruption of their operations and workers staying off-premise. Supply chain planners, more than ever, are now searching for ways to leverage their people, processes, and modern technologies to reduce disruptions caused by unexpected supply and demand …
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In June of 2018, I wrote a blog explaining what Supply Chain was What is Supply Chain? • Profit Point (profitpt.com).  Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, I thought that I would never have to explain what a supply chain was again.  The Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), toilet paper, chips and vaccine shortages and distributions issues …
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