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

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While implementing SCaaS poses challenges, it has demonstrated its effectiveness across industries, fostering company growth, cost reduction, and leveraging cutting-edge technology. SCaaS will guide companies to achieve strategic value by improving Manufacturing as a Service, Fulfillment as a Service, and Warehousing as a Service.

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7 Supply Chain Cost Saving Ideas from SpaceX

Supply Chain Opz

During the period of slow economic growth, many manufacturers have to deal with the cost pressure. In this article, we will explain to you 7 cost saving ideas that you can learn from the space program. Due to material shortages during World War II, companies needed to find the alternative materials on a regular basis.

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

Supply Chain Shaman

At each company, there is a relationship between the metrics of growth, margin, inventory, customer service, and asset strategy. For the purpose of this article, I will use Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) as the proxy metric to discuss asset utilization.) Supply chain excellence was largely defined as manufacturing excellence.

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Seasoned Leadership in Action™! An Interview with Michael Massetti, VP at Gartner!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Michael contributed an article for us on 7 Essential Attributes of Strategic Supplier Partnerships! . The article was extremely insightful and proved to be phenomenally popular. . The biggest career transformation for me was after leaving Dell when I joined Lucent in 2002 and entered supply chain in technology sourcing.

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The Digital Twin is the Next Big Technology Enabler

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They will have profound implications for manufacturing, energy, aerospace, health care, and even urban planning. Pairing technology was used to train astronauts and save the crew of the Apollo 13 mission , and was updated by telemetry and voice communications. NASA’s original “pairing technology” was an early form of digital twin.

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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #4

Supply Chain Trend

However, S&OP has not yet substantially delivered on its ultimate promise of enterprise wide resource management, rolling financial forecasting and strategy deployment. These leaders all have 20+ years S&OP experience and published books, whitepapers and articles in renowned magazines.

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Behind the Numbers of the SCRC Supply Management Index

NC State SCRC

The SCRC’s Supply Management Maturity Index was highlighted in a recent Wall Street Journal article , that identified the companies best prepared to weather the storm ahead in terms of supply chain disruptions. Let me describe the two categories highlighted in the journal article. Manufacturers or the U.S. Handfield, R.B.