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Q&A With Women Making a Big Impact in Supply Chain

ToolsGroup

Over time, I’ve been fortunate to work in groups where both men and women were well represented, and I’ve had excellent leaders who championed my career by giving me the freedom to chart my own path. The truth is women have long been underrepresented in supply chain leadership.

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Transforming the Grocery Shopping Experience with Last Mile Delivery

Supply Chain Management and Analytics

In several days, the lockdown period started, and we were so anxious that we could neither buy any groceries from supermarkets nor order food from restaurants. . Last mile delivery can be defined as the transportation and delivery of goods to end-users as fast as possible. This is an excellent example of agility.

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What is the Biggest Blind Spot in Your Supply Chain?

Talking Logistics

The company has had to shut down or slow down production at various factories around the world due to a shortage of steering gears manufactured by its supplier Bosch, which in turn blamed the problem on one of its suppliers in Italy that is having problems delivering the casing for the steering gears. Work in Process (WIP) at suppliers.

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Demand-Driven Transformation at Shell

Supply Chain Shaman

Nick Lynch is the Global Excellence Manager at Shell Lubricants, a division of Shell Global. The Company implemented SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO) including the standard functionality of Demand Planning (DP), Supply Network Planning (SNP), and Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PPDS), yet many planners also used Excel.

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How to be Productive during the Global Lockdown: The ThroughPut Playbook to Maintain your Output Levels

ThroughPut

The deaths in Italy have surpassed those in China. As of right now, top lines have been essentially wiped out for industries like air transportation, freight, gastronomy, tourism, travel, and many more. California has over 40 million people on lockdown with New York following suit today.

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Roberto Crippa: “If you try to manage new business with old rules you fail”

Supply Chain Movement

Q: What is the strategy of the Company (or Division/Supply Chain): Operational Excellence, Product Leadership or Customer Intimacy? The business is getting tougher as more and more professional buyers at Customer’s site are managing procurement and purchasing. Here he describes his new supply chain agenda.

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Nursing Hospital and Healthcare Supply Into a New Age

Logistics Bureau

The aforementioned NHS for instance has partnered with a large logistics-service company, which owns the distribution centres and transport fleets that supply NHS hospitals. On the other hand, a number of the larger US healthcare providers have opted to buy or lease their own distribution centres and run their own truck fleets.