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Choosing a Fulfillment Partner

ModusLink Corporation

Make sure to review the performance metrics of the Fulfillment service provider on Reverse Logistics in detail to avoid surprises. Brand reinforcement should not trump performance metrics, however, it still stays a valid element to consider as increased brand awareness will almost always positively affect your company.

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KPI Key Performance Indicators in Supply Chain & Logistics

Logistics Bureau

A KPI is a metric… but not just any metric. A KPI is a metric focused on a KEY element of business, departmental, or team performance. There is really nothing wrong with capturing a lot of metrics, especially with today’s powerful analytics software solutions to help. Let me try to clarify.

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The Evolution of a Supply Chain Planning Support Team

DynaSys

We adapted the metrics put in place by QAD in order to measure our activity, which helped us in understanding what we could do, how we could improve, and what were our limits. The number of support requests increased, and with the growing experience of DynaSys in the Supply Chain domain, more complex projects were started.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 22 – 28)

Logistics Viewpoints

Unseasonably cold weather in Spain slowed down the growing of peppers, leading to Morrisons limiting purchases to two per customer. British supermarkets source peppers exclusively from Spain during the winter months. The company plans to do so, in part, by electrifying 35 percent of its U.S. Generating the full 185.6

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Roundtable Series: Scaling in a Compromised Supply Chain

Unleashed

Three Spirit has a VAT registration in the Netherlands, for instance, but David Press says that to expand to more locations, they’ll need to find a supply from other parts of Europe, such as Germany, Spain, Scandinavia and France. But of course, if you don’t have supply, then those sales just collapse.”

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Insights from Elemica reveal 2014 Frankfurt

Talking Logistics

The German team overcame disappointments in 2006 and 2010 to win the World Cup this year, while favorites Spain (the defending champion) and Brazil (the host country) were humbled by the competition. The answer: Both teams illustrate that past performance is no guarantee of future results.

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Airbags and supply chain leadership

Supply Chain Movement

A couple of weeks ago I was at the CSCMP conference in Spain, where Operational Excellence expert professor Joseph Paris gave a powerful example how proactive leadership can make a difference. This leads to a very important point that a company is viewed as a superior industry leader, or a lagging looser; proactive leadership. Law suits.