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A True Supply Chain Transformation Requires the Proper Talent

Logistics Viewpoints

In Belcorp’s case they have four factories located in Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Ecuador. This digital twin contains network costs – the inventory carrying cost is X for this product, by Y for this one. The cost reduction includes sourcing, customs & duties, transportation, production, and inventory holding costs.

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Revenues Sagging? Here's How to Thrive in 2016

Demand Solutions

Think Venezuela, Ecuador, and Colombia. All of that inventory sitting there is probably your largest expense next to headcount. But don’t just cut inventory blindly. You can actually increase your customer service levels at the same time you’re cutting inventory. Meanwhile, the strengthening of the U.S.

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Revenues Sagging? Here's How to Thrive in 2016

Demand Solutions

Think Venezuela, Ecuador, and Colombia. All of that inventory sitting there is probably your largest expense next to headcount. But don’t just cut inventory blindly. You can actually increase your customer service levels at the same time you’re cutting inventory. Meanwhile, the strengthening of the U.S.

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Japan and Ecuador Earthquakes: Supply Chain Lessons from Past Disasters

Talking Logistics

The recent earthquakes in Japan and Ecuador are a sad reminder of how deadly natural disasters can be. As of this morning, 41 people are confirmed dead in Kumamoto prefecture, the epicenter of Japan’s earthquakes, and 272 people have died in Ecuador , with thousands more injured and displaced from their homes.

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Global Cargo Monitoring / Cargo Tracking: Networked Supply.

Global Trade Management

The ability to in real time identify the location and status of the sourced goods gives the importer the ability to fine tune its distribution channels, its inventory management and its ability to fulfill commitments to its end users. “With perishables, we can’t really do it from farm to shelf.”

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Building A Guiding Coalition for Change

Supply Chain Shaman

Centers of excellence evolved in countries like Guatemala, Ecuador, Poland, Singapore, and China. Faced with falling margins and increasing inventories, companies focused more and more on financial reengineering, pushing costs and waste backward in the supply chain. Business process outsourcing accelerated. Then the Pandemic hit.

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Checklist for working capital management

Supply Chain Movement

Working capital management revolves around inventory, debtors and creditors. 10 questions to assess working capital management. Some companies generate cash so quickly that they can even achieve negative working capital. Supply Chain Media and software vendor Slimstock have developed this checklist for working capital management. >>Please