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Why Have We Not Reduced Inventory?

Supply Chain Shaman

” CFO of a major manufacturer. This year supply chain leaders will celebrate thirty years of progress in supply chain management; but we have not made progress on one of the funamentals: inventory management. Have the early adopters of inventory optimization seen a reduction in inventory on their balance sheets?”

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Restructuring Global Value Chains & Tariff Reduction – A Continuous Evolution for Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

In extreme cases, firms simply state that a product comes from one country when, in actual fact, it was manufactured in a country that is impacted by the higher tariff being imposed. Alternatively, you may want to relocate – totally or in part – where your product is manufactured. This practice is illegal. Free trade agreements (FTAs).

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ZF’s Transition from Lean to Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

Among other things, ZF manufactures electrified powertrains, car chassis technology, active and passive safety systems, and advanced driver assistance systems. ZF offers product and software solutions for established vehicle manufacturers and newly emerging transport and mobility service providers. The ZF supply chain is complex.

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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

Traditional risk management policy assumes a contraction in growth: the conventional focus is the shutdown and reallocation of supply. Today, only 4% of companies are the first to buy new technology—a 40% decline from post Y2K in 2001. In addition, Lucas used inventory as a slush fund to make quarterly earnings. His response?

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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

Traditional risk management policy assumes a contraction in growth: the conventional focus is the shutdown and reallocation of supply. Today, only 4% of companies are the first to buy new technology—a 40% decline from post Y2K in 2001. In addition, Lucas used inventory as a slush fund to make quarterly earnings. His response?

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Supply Chain Lessons Executives Learned from the Baby Formula Shortage

Elementum

For our purposes, a supply chain is a connected set of organizations and individuals, working together to provision, receive, store, and move goods, for product manufacturing, and distribution. Over the last 20+ years, we can identify at least 15 spikes in supplier delivery times that cause manufacturing output to be disrupted.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 29 – May 5)

Logistics Viewpoints

But I also found it interesting that Dick Morley , the father of the PLC (programmable logic controllers to you non-geeks), organized geek pride days in New Hampshire as early as 2001. Why do I find this interesting? Well, ARC Advisory Group , the owner of Logistics Viewpoints, has been conducting research on the PLC market for decades.