Imagining an agile supply chain can be a little like trying to picture a nimble ocean freighter: In an environment where strategies and network changes are measured in years, the idea of responding quickly and effectively to changing conditions is difficult to envision. With the right team, tools, and expertise, though, Capacity Planning strategies …
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Raw material shortages and chaotic supply chains can wreak havoc on manufacturing schedules and have planners scrambling for solutions. But with the right visibility into processes, schedulers can better assess how effectively production time is used, detect potential conflicts, and identify bottlenecks and constraints – and it can be a game changer. Profit Point recently …
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There’s a classic scene in “Jurassic Park” where Jeff Goldblum’s character discusses chaos theory with the paleobotanist played by Laura Dern, and he uses a quick water drop experiment to explain the consequences of unpredictability in complex systems. You’ve no doubt heard of what’s kind of the supply chain’s version of this phenomenon: “The Bullwhip …
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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 wasn’t too long ago that outside of work, many of us were met with puzzlement when we mentioned the supply chain. For better or worse, we rarely have to explain ourselves anymore: The past few challenging years have provided almost everybody with some degree of understanding of the difference that good, flexible, reactive supply …
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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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By applying our unique “process of understanding”, Profit Point has used many Supply Chain Network Design (SCND) software tools to deliver exceptional value in strategic and tactical network planning. Our methods extend beyond the simple use of technology to model and design complex supply chains. In this article, we examine four of the most overlooked …
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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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