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Two Million Vacant Manufacturing Jobs by 2025…How Can We Tackle the Skills Gap?

GlobalTranz

Insufficient on-the-job training — Over the period from 2002 to 2013, investments in internal training programs such as apprenticeships, company classroom training, and other structured on-the-job skills development for current manufacturing employees were cut from 469,000 to 288,000 (nearly 40 percent). Annually, 3.2 - 3.5

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Supply Chain as a Service (SCaaS): A Golden Opportunity for the Supply Chain Industry

SCMDOJO

in 2002 , a comparison was made between in-house inventory management and outsourced inventory management in hospitals with omnichannel distribution networks. Forecasts suggest that the SCaaS market will reach nearly 7 billion USD by 2025. In a study conducted by Nicholson et al.

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Three Reasons Why SAP Supply Chain Planning Is a Risk to Your Business

Supply Chain Shaman

When SAP launched APO in 2002, the optimization technologies were inferior to most best-of-breed technologies in the market. Following a customer uproar the date was extended until 2025. As a result, I believe that SAP innovation will lag and SAP will play catch-up in 2025. Let’s face facts.

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Three Reasons Why SAP Supply Chain Planning Is a Risk to Your Business

Supply Chain Shaman

When SAP launched APO in 2002, the optimization technologies were inferior to most best-of-breed technologies in the market. Following a customer uproar the date was extended until 2025. As a result, I believe that SAP innovation will lag and SAP will play catch-up in 2025. Let’s face facts.

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Integrated Business Planning: A New Narrative for an Old Process

Supply Chain Trend

At about the same time that Wave 2 was gaining momentum, we saw publication of the book Enterprise Sales & Operations Planning: Synchronizing Demand, Supply and Resources for Peak Performance (Palmatier and Crum, 2002). The authors detailed a sequential S&OP cycle around a. Figure 1 is an image from the cover of the book.

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Saudi Arabia’s Top eCommerce Companies

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billion in sales by 2025. Amazon is a global retailer with operations in many different countries that was established in 2002 by Jeff Bezos. In 2020, the total eCommerce industry revenue from all Saudi Arabian eCommerce companies was USD 7 billion, which has since climbed by 60%. AliExpress.

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Are You Active in the Digital Transformation Drinking Game?

Supply Chain Shaman

Will it be supported through 2025? SAP APO became the market share leader for supply chain decision support in 2002. The picture for SAP SCM support of APO is not clear. And, what will this mean? At the conference, there is no explanation. It is a muddle. Migrations are expensive. SAP IBP is immature.