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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. Supply chain excellence was largely defined as manufacturing excellence.

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Logility Wins IDC’s SaaS CSAT Award for Supply Chain Management Customer Satisfaction

Logility

Benchmark Based on Global Survey Highlights Logility’s Leadership in Ease of Use and Driving Rapid Benefits. ATLANTA – January 14, 2020 – Logility, Inc., Logility customers include Big Lots, Husqvarna Group, Parker Hannifin, Sonoco Products and Red Wing Shoe Company. These factors include, but are not limited to, continuing U.S.

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The End of a Fairy Tale

Supply Chain Shaman

However, none of the three companies knew this before the benchmarking activity. This includes the automation of path-to-purchase for consumer products, active shaping of demand through price, channel incentives and promotions, eCouponing and mobile commerce for retail, and product proliferation for all. It constantly amazes me.

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Introductory Guide to Spend Analysis - SupplyChainOpz

Supply Chain Opz

While a big chunk of cost lies within procurement, manufacturing and distribution activities, cost reduction from procurement function seems to deliver substantial savings quicker. In fiscal year 2002, the U.S. Introductory Guide to Spend Analysis. Cost reduction has always been the number one priority for a company.

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Infor’s Acquistion of GT Nexus: If I Had a Magic Wand

Supply Chain Shaman

Founded in 2002 under the name of Agilisys, Infor rebranded in 2004. In the period of 2002-present, the company acquired/aggregated many applications. On August 13th, Infor announced the intent to purchase GT Nexus for 675M$. The largest was the purchase of Lawson in 2011 for 2B$. The current market offers no solution.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 23-27, 2014)

Talking Logistics

The last shutdown occurred in the fall of 2002, as retailers were preparing for the Christmas holiday period. According to a study conducted by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the National Retail Federation (NRF), a 10-day stoppage would reduce GDP $2.1 It lasted 10 days and cost the U.S. What’s at stake this time?

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Getting Ready for 2017: Reflections on Telling Lies

Supply Chain Shaman

The original AMR Research analysis focused on a benchmarking sample of over 70 companies. To gain competitive economies of scale and drive the segmented response, the back office operations–procurement, manufacturing and transportation–are automated and effective. This was the lie spun by Gartner in 2002.