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Supply Chain Shaman

Supply Chain Planners Analogous to Secretarial Pools? In my forty years of studying supply chain planning, the groups became larger, but with questionable results. We sidestep vacuous terms like digital supply chain and attempt to measure and redefine flows based the redefinition of planning. The So What?

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Inventory Management Best Practices for Tech Companies: Knowledgeable Insights by ModusLink

ModusLink Corporation

Distinguishing Inventory Management from Supply Chain Management: While inventory management and supply chain management are closely related, it’s important to recognize that these terms are not interchangeable. Together, they ensure a responsive supply chain that adapts to changing demand.

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Inventory Management Best Practices for Tech Companies: Knowledgeable Insights by ModusLink

ModusLink Corporation

Distinguishing Inventory Management from Supply Chain Management: While inventory management and supply chain management are closely related, it’s important to recognize that these terms are not interchangeable. Together, they ensure a responsive supply chain that adapts to changing demand.

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Inventory Management Best Practices for Tech Companies: Knowledgeable Insights by ModusLink

ModusLink Corporation

Distinguishing Inventory Management from Supply Chain Management: While inventory management and supply chain management are closely related, it’s important to recognize that these terms are not interchangeable. Together, they ensure a responsive supply chain that adapts to changing demand.

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Ann Grackin: Is the Crisis in Demand Management Being Exacerbated by Spreadsheet Dependency?

Logility

Demand management has always been at the top of supply chain professionals’ list of challenges. I am not alone in the opinion ( see Red Wing Shoe Company webcast, Are Spreadsheets Sabotaging Your Forecast ) that spreadsheets may not be the path to supply chain success.

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How to Get a Job in the Supply Chain Sector

Logistics Bureau

So, you are thinking about a career in supply chain? While this article is intended as an evergreen resource, to help you navigate in your search for a supply chain job, and is not a COVID-19-specific guide, the pandemic has galvanized attention on the industry and its criticality.

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Seven Benefits of Unifying Demand and Supply Management

Vanguard Software

While successful supply chain management involves coordination across many business areas, planning happens in departmental siloes, leading to short-sighted or inaccurate decisions. In addition, supply chain design tends to be reactive and cannot sense, flex, and adapt to disruptions, exposing the company to demand volatility.