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One Multinational’s Supply Chain Transformation Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

It started in manufacturing and spread, step by step, to improvements in the way the company runs its supply chain. Being able to look at a service failure and get down to root causes is necessary for continuous improvement. COVID has led many companies to talk about improving their resilience. It takes time.

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Novo Nordisk: A Story of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

Each year at Supply Chain Insights we study performance and improvement of companies in each industry. For the past four years, as we have done our work, we have tracked Novo Nordisk’s continued improvement against the pharmaceutical peer group. Performance and Improvement within the Pharmaceutical Industry for 2009-2015.

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Changing Mental Models

Supply Chain Shaman

Medical Device Manufacturer. While hospital supply chain organizations have made progress in the last decade, the gap has widened between the supplier sectors of pharmaceuticals and medical device manufacturers and other manufacturing industries. Published by Supply Chain Insights in November 2012. The problem is us.

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Judging Supply Chain Improvement: Campbell Soup Case Study

Supply Chain Shaman

During the period of 2006-2012, Campbell Soup Company outperformed its peer group on the Supply Chain Index. The Index is a methodology developed by Supply Chain Insights LLC, in cooperation with the Operations Research Team at Arizona State University (ASU), to gauge supply chain improvement. Background on the Supply Chain Index.

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Want a Better Supply Chain? Here Are 4 Reasons to Outsource Your Transportation Management

Talking Logistics

dollars) in 2012 – a 9.9% In the United States alone, 3PL gross revenue increased 3.2% (a rate greater than our GDP) from 2012 to 2013 to $146.4 Commitment to continuous improvement, not just short-term savings: Transportation optimization is more than moving freight for the lowest cost. Global 3PL revenues grew to $676.9

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Delivering Hope: Taimen Transport Ships Life-Saving Vaccines

Turvo

It was a virtuous cycle of compounding improvements and growth. Taimen has an extensive background in time-critical delivery and expedited shipments going back to 2012. So began the nationwide race to manufacture and successfully ship hundreds of millions of doses. At Taimen, the phone rang.

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Time for a Mea Culpa?

Supply Chain Shaman

Because he had reduced his buffers—both inventory and manufacturing—and had built a push-based supply chain using a forecasted demand signal, he was failing in many markets. Yet, I see us driving continuous improvement programs to get more efficient at doing what we do today. Most companies do not have the answers. Related.