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  • - by Geert Vanhove

    The Hidden Costs of Using Excel for Resource Management

    Using Excel for resource management produces errors, eats a massive amount working hours and result into hidden costs that you could easily avoid.
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  • - by Koen Cobbaert

    How to measure uncertainty in your supply chain

    By nature, stochastic insights are complicated to understand, especially for practitioners who are not necessarily familiar with the typical statistical measures of variability. Transparent metrics that clearly communicate the...
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  • - by Valérie Vandenbroucke

    Alpro optimizes planning for its plant-based alternative

    As published in Business Logistics Magazine, December 2018;Axon trawls through data in search of effective quality release time When it comes to fresh products, every hour counts. Because the...
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  • - by Cédric Van Helleputte

    7 guiding principles to build your data factory

    Master data is the fuel that drives your organization forward. When you use gasoline in a diesel vehicle or use fuel of inferior quality, it harms the performance of...
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  • - by Cédric Van Helleputte

    Digital supply chain planning: finding synergy between process, people, data, technology, and tools

    We are in the middle of an APO replacement wave, where many companies have either already implemented an Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) tool, are in the process of...
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  • - by Arnoud Smeesters

    Supply chain resilience, the new paradigm in a post COVID-19 world

    In the past, global companies aiming for operational excellence focused on optimizing their supply chain. With lean concepts in mind, the main priorities of operations departments were to reach...
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  • - by Trevor Miles

    The evolution of digital twins – probabilistic planning

    In a previous blog, we discussed the design origins of Digital Twins and their current capabilities, which include policies and behaviors, meaning they capture the desired and actual performance...
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  • - by Trevor Miles

    How to analyze material flows using process mining techniques

    Process mining is a hot topic—and has been for more than five years. Celonis, one of the early solutions, is the first European “unicorn” and is now valued at...
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  • - by Trevor Miles

    How to build up a digital supply chain twin?

    “When product information is scattered over different ERP systems, it is very difficult to see the E2E product flow because if one product leaves a system there is no specific...
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