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Building Value Networks. Stopping the Backward Slide.

Supply Chain Shaman

Phone calls to Europe or Asia were costly and of poor quality. By the early 2000s, phone calls to Europe from my cell were expensive but manageable. I was a Gartner analyst in the period of 2000-2002 when trading exchanges were cool. A portal is an information dead-end street.

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This Week In Supply Chain Management Tech April 4 2023

Supply Chain Matters

The deal reportedly will further enhance Oracle’s logistics software deployment capabilities across Europe. Founded in 2007, Rotterdam based Flo Group specializes in Oracle focused logistics software support and deployment services capabilities. The existing 280 Flo consultants will be part of the Accenture Oracle Business Group.

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What’s New with MMOG/LE Version 5?

QAD

The MMOG/LE assessment has been a go-to document for automotive supply chain best practices for thousands of global Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers since its first publication in 2002. Although the Excel-based MMOG/LE assessment tool has served the industry since 2002, it was time to update it to a more modern application.

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Supply Chain Disruption. A Deeper Look Into Context, Causes, and Trends  

Elementum

2) Ship to the US and Western Europe. They expanded first into other parts of eastern Asia (Vietnam, Thailand, India), then into eastern Europe (Poland, Ukraine) and Mexico. From 2002 to 2013, the cost of manufacturing in China increased almost 500%, making China significantly more expensive than places like India.

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October Global PMI Reporting-Continued Production Contraction

Supply Chain Matters

contractionary mark for fourteen consecutive months and reportedly the longest sequence of deterioration since the period of December 2000 to February 2002. On a regional basis, Europe reportedly remained a principal drag on global factory output, along with what were described as slight dips in production volumes across Asia.

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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. If you haven’t been preparing for this risk, ideally since the end of the last shutdown in 2002, there’s very little you can do now at the 11th hour. It lasted 10 days and cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars.

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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. The reason for considering inventory outsourcing stems from the challenges companies face, such as inventory bottlenecks, within their multi-echelon distribution networks.