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Happy Groundhog Day

Supply Chain Shaman

The call to action in April 2016 was: Increasingly companies are evaluating business network solutions to close the gap on inter-enterprise visibility ; but as companies work on the problem, they find that they need to somehow interconnect business networks. Defining a solution to close the gaps are not so easy. The gaps are large.

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

SCMDOJO

SCaaS is a technology-driven approach to managing supply chains, offering comprehensive end-to-end solutions for businesses. This approach allows businesses to focus on their core competencies while leaving the logistics to experts who can optimize the process for efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

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The worst Supply Chain practices must be confessed and not only by constraint

KEPLER Consulting

This can only be achieved by addressing the elimination of the worst practices in the organization, processes, and digital resources of the company. Non-updated product sheets in ERP (purchase price, MOQ, Incoterm,…) resulting in non-compliant supplier orders . The importance of a robust supply chain. 3/ Workflow Management.

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Seeing Beyond the Firewall

Supply Chain Shaman

Process industry leaders–chemical, consumer packaged goods, food/beverage–have greater issues using data, with software usability, and building effective connections to align and build effective relationships with trading partners. The processes are largely batch, using data with great latency (orders and purchase orders).

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History and Evolution of Supply Chain and Logistics

SCMDOJO

In the current era, it is clear that new modes of production are concomitant with new modes of distribution, which advances the field of logistics, the science of physical distribution or even supply chain management. Reminder of Key Definitions – Logistics & Supply Chain Management. What is Logistics and Supply Chain Management?

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How Supply Chain Strategy Misalignment is Killing Kmart USA

Logistics Bureau

At the next Logistics Bureau Free Executive Breakfast (which will take place in August), I’ll be discussing the alignment of supply chain and business strategy along with eight other important levers for supply chain performance improvement. Cross-docking operations to reduce the need for warehouse real-estate and resources.

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3 ways supplier diversity in supply chain can positively impact your business

DELMIA Quintiq

The Atlanta-based company demonstrated that companies focusing “heavily on supplier diversity” generated a 133% greater return on procurement investments than the typical business. Between 1997 and 2002, approximately 50% of growth by all American firms came from minority businesses alone. Access to a whole different network.