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Supply Chain Disruption. A Deeper Look Into Context, Causes, and Trends  

Elementum

They expanded first into other parts of eastern Asia (Vietnam, Thailand, India), then into eastern Europe (Poland, Ukraine) and Mexico. This expansion occurred at the same time products were becoming more complex and modularized, and also as supply chain management became increasingly software-dependent. Up Next: Finding New Solutions.

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Demand-Driven Transformation at Shell

Supply Chain Shaman

It is just not enough to do a software upgrade or slowly push continuous improvement projects. They saw a steady drop in inventory and reduced working capital by about 50% over the period of 2011-2015. Impact of Demand Sensing on Inventory Levels. He needed to find new solutions. Incrementalism Is Not Enough.

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SIGVARIS AU: putting customers first with the B2B Store

Unleashed

SIGVARIS is the global market leader in market compression garments, producing over 8 million pairs of stockings across our plants in Switzerland, Poland, the US, France and Brazil. We already had Unleashed handling our inventory management, so we used the integration with Shopify to provide a solution. Wholesale hassle.

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24 supply chain experts & business leaders reveal the #1 challenge of supply chain management (and how to solve it)

6 River Systems

“They have multi-sourced key commodities or strategic components to reduce their reliance on any one supplier, and they had considered inventory strategy to buffer against supply chain disruption.” Also, globalization presents another hydra-headed challenge for your procurement network.

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KPI Key Performance Indicators in Supply Chain & Logistics

Logistics Bureau

Inventory stock turns in Days. Inventory management. Purchasing and supplier management. Inventory levels. There is really nothing wrong with capturing a lot of metrics, especially with today’s powerful analytics software solutions to help. DIF – Delivery in Full. DOT – Delivery on Time. Warehousing.

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