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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

The US GDP in 2021 grew at an unexpected rate of 5.7% A container from Shanghai to Long Beach was 56 days in 2020 and increased to 80 days in 2021. Source E2open Shipping Index). Today, only 4% of companies are the first to buy new technology—a 40% decline from post Y2K in 2001. We started the conversation with sourcing.

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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

The US GDP in 2021 grew at an unexpected rate of 5.7% A container from Shanghai to Long Beach was 56 days in 2020 and increased to 80 days in 2021. Source E2open Shipping Index). Today, only 4% of companies are the first to buy new technology—a 40% decline from post Y2K in 2001. We started the conversation with sourcing.

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Industry 4.0 and the Long Game

Enterra Insights

Nigel Duckworth ( @nigelduckworth ), a marketing strategist at One Network Enterprises, notes it can be difficult for manufacturers to concentrate on the long game with a swirl of new technologies constantly vying for attention. Sixty-four percent of the manufacturers surveyed are looking for increased market share in their existing markets.

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Analog Supply Chains are an Anachronism in a Digital World

Enterra Insights

Escalating tensions around trade, technological innovation and healthcare suggest it’s highly unlikely we’ll revert to the cooperative past that characterized the period following China’s 2001 admission to the World Trade Organization. ” EY, 12 July 2021. [2] Yet cooperation will be key.” ” Footnotes. [1]

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

Supply Chain Shaman

Keith led the work to move P&G from a regional to a global manufacturer opening up the Warsaw center of planning excellence and outsourcing IT to HP. Keith was an undisputed leader in building talent to drive manufacturing excellence. As shown in Figure 1, the results for the period of 2012-2021 tell the story.

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E-commerce and the Digital Path to Purchase

Enterra Insights

million by 2021, making the U.S. From rapid order intake to omnichannel order fulfillment to establishing the optimal distribution network to meeting next-day or same-day delivery windows, both retailers and manufacturers must innovate, adapt and evolve — or get knocked out their respective markets.”[2]. million in 2016.

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Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods

Gravity Supply Chain

These two innovations opened up the possibility of a diversified global manufacturing system in which products, including the parts that would be assembled into more advanced products elsewhere, could be made in the most cost-effective regions. The quantity of goods carried by containers soared from 102 million metric tons in 1980 to about 1.83