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Inflation is Back Up – Are you Ready?

Herlitz Inventory Management

Growing up with a father who developed inventory management software for a living spawned some interesting conversations around the dinner table. As the economy reopens post-COVID, there are still supply chain shortages. source: tradingeconomics.com. source: thebalance.com. Forward Buying and Inflation.

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Is the FAR getting in the way of Early Supplier Involvement in defense projects?

NC State SCRC

At that point, production and system operations commence (DSMC, 2001). This approach has been used for many years, and tends to limit the opportunity for innovation, cost savings suggestions, and introduction of new technologies into the process, as noted by Anne Rung in her memo during her time at the Office of Management and Budget.

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Uh-Oh! Insights On How P&G Failed And What This Means For You

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. Executive teams strive to drive improvement in supply chain results; yet, sadly, only four percent of public companies succeed. The supply chain is a complex non-linear system. Now, I view the company as a supply chain laggard.

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VTech: A Story of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

Financial balance sheet improvements cannot be driven by traditional supply chain processes. In the words of a supply chain leader yesterday, “Lora, please give me stories of success. When I first met Nick, he was driving a supply chain transformation at VTech Communications. Price to Tangible Book Value.

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Supply chain software demands continual attention

Supply Chain Movement

that’s the same length of time that many larger companies need to develop and globally implement new supply chain software. PepsiCo, ASmL and Agrifac are all investing in supply chain software at different levels. Supply chain software can be categorised into three different types.

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Interoceanic Passages

Abivin

In the current global economy, the closure of a maritime chokepoint would have significant economic ramifications due to the disruption of trade flows and even some supply chains (e.g. meters in 2001. billion of its total revenue in the fiscal year 2014, placing it as the third-largest source of income in the nation.

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Risks of Outsourcing: The Case of U.S. Intelligence

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

  Supply chains have become global in part because of outsourcing as companies want to be ‘nimble’, carry fewer assets on their books and lower their headcount. With those kind of amounts spent annually over such a prolonged period, one question for any company would be whether the work should be in-sourced.