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SCM Best Paper Award Winners 2012 (1/2)

SCM Research

I have attended the CSCMP’s Supply Chain Management Educators’ Conference (SCMEC) in Atlanta. The conference offers a unique opportunity to meet many researchers, whose faces are obscured behind references for the rest of the year. The Bernard J.

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Reflections, Thank-you(s) and Rethinking the Future

Supply Chain Shaman

Last week I spoke at the CLX Logistics Conference in Philadelphia on the future of Supply Chain Management. As I talk to innovators like Lean DNA, Orchestr8, and Retail Velocity, I keep hearing about the virtues of Microsoft BI and Azure for Software as a Service applications. I love the innovation happening with Microsoft Azure.

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AGCO: Driving a Digital Manufacturing Transformation

Supply Chain Shaman

When her employees kept breaking their tablets on the production floor, Peggy used lean-production thought processes to innovate for new answers. Next year, the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit will be in Philadelphia on September 4th-7th. AGCO was honored to receive the AME 2017 Excellence Award. Congrats to the Agco team.

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The Fight of the Titans

Supply Chain Shaman

Toyota is the iconic leader in lean penning the book, “The Toyota Way.” I would love to hear from you, and have you join us a the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit on September 4th-7th in Philadelphia. Nestle outperforms Mondelex in margin (15% versus 12%) while Mondelez slightly outperforms Nestle in inventory turns.

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Kraft Foods Names Daniel Myers Executive Vice President, Supply Chain

Supply Chain Network

“This expertise will complement our current End-to-End Cost Management initiatives, including Project SAVOR in Procurement and Lean Six Sigma in Manufacturing. . “Daniel has extensive experience driving cost savings across complex global supply chains – in food, beverages and many other products,” said Rosenfeld.

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New Bookends: The Tale of Supply Chain Global Leaders in Consumer Products

Supply Chain Shaman

With a strong manufacturing culture, much of the focus was on lean production systems. for the public training in Philadelphia in August and developing the content for the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit in September. These network interactions are the Global Summit make this happen. _. Life is busy at Supply Chain Insights.

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American Software Reports Second Quarter of Fiscal Year 2022 Results

Logility

This is driving companies of all sizes to lean on technology to measure their emissions and identify opportunities for improvement. Many companies are evaluating their social and environmental initiatives and are finding that a majority of their impact can be traced back to their supply chain practices,” continued Dow. Company and Technology.