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The ‘Why’ in S&OP: or How to Find More Meaning

Supply Chain Trend

Maybe at the start of the S&OP project executives buy in and employees are still eager. He called his idea ‘the world simplest idea’ and introduced that ‘people buy why you do things not what you do’. Another reason is that employees just get tired of an overly dogmatic, bureaucratic process and data focused monthly cycle.

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Say Customer Service and Mean It

Supply Chain Shaman

Foundational to supply chain excellence is the reliability of delivery, quality, and service. The Sleep Number Story of Supply Chain Excellence. Historic processes are inside-out tightly integrated to orders and purchase orders. Defining the Customer Experience Through Supply Chain Excellence.

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A vision for a transparent global Rare Earth Element system using blockchain technology

Provenance

China’s low prices have historically undercut global prices and pushed out foreign competitors –– such as the Mountain Pass mine in California, which closed in 2002. Existing tagging options for precious metals and stones, such as fingerprinting for gold (Mark Saxon interview, 2017) are currently not considered economically viable for REEs.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 27 – March 3, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Those same words were also said when the ports were shut down for 10 days in 2002 , and again in December 2012 when 600 clerks went on strike , shutting down the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach for 8 days. Still managing your supply chain with Excel macros? Guess what? It’s going to happen again, so you better prepare.