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Revisiting Some Great Advice for Supply Chain Young Professionals

Talking Logistics

Jordan Kass : Make a personal development plan and identify the skills you need to reach your goals. Everybody wants to be a boss, but first do a great job in the role you’re given; the quality of your work will speak a lot louder for you than you can speak for yourself. Randy Lewis : Analytics and IT are the name of the game.

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Additive Manufacturing continues to Mature

Enterra Insights

. “The traditional supply chain,” he writes, “though it has been much improved over the years, still carries with it a number of glaring inefficiencies, namely: long lead times, high transport costs, complex distribution networks and a dependency on economies of scale. ” Environmental impacts. Footnotes. [1]

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Complex costs of transportation

Supply Chain Movement

To anticipate and respond to high customer demand, a modern Transportation Management System (TMS) needs to optimize inventory allocation. By consolidating at the source, several shipments can be combined into one, thereby reducing the number of shipments even before the shipments arrive at the Logistics Service Provider (LSP).