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Handfield’s Supply Chain Analytics Predictions for 2014

Supply Chain View from the Field

I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. Customers increasingly want customized solutions, and require specific logistics delivery requirements.

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Podcast: Rob Handfield on Suppliers, Data, Tech, and Talent

Requis

He is a consultant to Fortune 500 companies and US federal agencies, and a speaker with focus on the fields of strategic sourcing, supply market intelligence, and supplier development. In the 1990s, purchasing managers were focusing on how to beat up their suppliers in order to buy cheaper.

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How to implement a supply chain management system

Unleashed

Supply chain management systems are tools that integrate every element of a company’s supply chain to help it become more efficient, effective, and profitable. This is done either with on-premise software, through the cloud, or using a hybrid of both. . This is why a good SCM tool is so important. Cloud-based software.

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New Reality in Supply Chain Strategy – Where are the Weakest Links?

EC Sourcing Group

Wouldn’t we all like to have a supply chain built to withstand a ramming like the cruise ship RCGS Resolute? Not only did the cruise ship escape with minimal damage but the Venezuelan navy patrol boat that attacked it suffered damage that caused it to sink. Single source suppliers. The initial list is just that.

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36 innovative companies re-inventing and rethinking supply chain and logistics

6 River Systems

The new facility will allow the company to offer two-day shipping to most (about 90%) of the U.S. Strategies include sourcing more items directly from manufacturers to improve margins, SKU rationalization and space reduction, “show more carry less” and assisted-store ordering.

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Industry 4.0: Will Your Business Survive?

Murano Corporation

In addition, related knowledge-worker industries such as software development, architecture, and network engineering are also seeing growth. Legacy ERP software is old technology, slow to implement and adopt and adapt, time and resource consuming, inflexible, and distracting from the core missions of these organizations.