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Congrats to the Winners of the Supply Chains to Admire 2023

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply Chains to Admire Winners 2023 Examine Your Own Paradigm. How Do You Define Excellence? Most supply chain leaders are stuck in their own paradigms. As an old gal, with over forty-years of supply chain experience, writing this report for ten years taught me many lessons. I admit it. The reason?

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Top Takeaways from Coupa Inspire

Logistics Viewpoints

The visibility to spend allows them to provide excellent benchmarking in several areas. Coupa also offers a robust, market share leading, supply chain design solution. The top Coupa executives, and the supply chain executives I have interacted with, are still working at Coupa.

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5 Best Logistics Books to Keep Within Reach

Supply Chain Opz

Then, we use these criteria to rank the books, - Practicality: we look closely at how each book can provide basic concepts and strategies of the "Integrated Logistics Functions", namely, customer service, purchasing, production planning, warehousing, and transportation in a clear and concise manner. He has an MBA from UCLA.

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A Radical New Way to Think About Supply Chain Management

Logistics Viewpoints

But when ARC has done writing on SCCN, we have written about how this solution set can help a company optimize its own supply chain operations. That is how enterprise and supply chain software solutions work. A company buys these solutions to optimize their business. Clearly, a new approach is needed.

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Target’s Margins Improve Even As Digital Sales Explode: How Is That Even Possible?

Logistics Viewpoints

Valdez, there were four critical improvement initiatives spanning inventory management, transportation, automation, and operational excellence. The anchor and catalyst for our transformation” was moving to using one pool of inventory to fulfill all digital and in-store purchases. A buyer now “purchases for one business.”

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Is There a Third Option for SCM Executives Looking to Revamp their Supply Chain Management Operations?

Kinaxis

Consulting firms deliver strategy and process improvements, but leave the customer to execute and sustain the new process, while software companies sell new supply chain capabilities without executing and driving its adoption. The Talent Make vs. Buy Decision.

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Don’t Take a Holiday from Inventory Management

Talking Logistics

Especially since many retailers have already purchased and shipped their goods ahead of the looming tariff changes. By implementing a supply chain execution platform with exception-based management and what-if functionality, you can see if changes are going to be necessary in the stages further downstream.