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Unilever Supply Chain: Lessons Learned on Digital Transformation

RFgen

This practice has largely contributed to Unilever’s position in the exclusive ‘Masters’ category for the fifth year running in Gartner’s Supply Chain Top 25. Here are some technologies Unilever leverages: Unilever needs supply chain visibility to gain a top-sight view of what’s happening to forests globally.

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Is A Customer-Centric Strategy the Same as Demand-Driven? Outside-In?

Supply Chain Shaman

The network senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy- and sell-side markets) bidirectionally with near real-time data to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing organizations outside-in. Customer-Centric Supply Chain Processes. Supply Chain Visibility and Supplier Connectivity.

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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

I strongly believe that leaders must build their supply chains with new building blocks. In the outside-in supply chain, the signals are from the buy and sell-side markets back to the enterprise. This requires bi-directional communication between trading partners in the value chain. Bio-engineering?

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Seeing Beyond the Firewall

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply Chain Operating Networks: The building of supply chain applications using many-to-many architectures to connect multiple parties to multiple trading partners to improve multi-tier supply chain visibility, planning and execution to improve relationships in extended value chains. .

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How to Set Corporate Goals for Supply Chain ESG

SupplyShift

For companies struggling to prioritize or identify their overarching goals, SASB’s materiality matrix is another excellent starting place. Measure KPIs by a point in time —we will increase the number of ESG-compliant suppliers by 40% by 2030. How will you improve supplier buy-in? Struggling to choose? We’re here to help.

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How to Set Corporate Goals for Supply Chain ESG

SupplyShift

For companies struggling to prioritize or identify their overarching goals, SASB’s materiality matrix is another excellent starting place. Measure KPIs by a point in time —we will increase the number of ESG-compliant suppliers by 40% by 2030. Secure Buy-In. How will you improve supplier buy-in? Source: sasb.org.

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50 expert tips on logistics planning and strategy

6 River Systems

Planning tips to unify supply chains. Create an adaptive unified buying process. “If you look at the typical buying process, it is bifurcated based on geography. If I am going to buy goods from this geography, then I use this process. Logistics personnel and supplier management pointers.