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Four Strategies What Worked

Supply Chain Shaman

Recently, work has been slower than usual, and I have not been traveling, so I have been writing an article daily. Forbes has a contest, and as a Forbes contributor, I have been competing to up my rankings (thanks for reading my articles). This comment is the genesis of this article. What did work?” He was right.

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10 Ideas for More Efficient & Productive Warehouse Operations

GlobalTranz

million robots are expected to be deployed across manufacturing facilities in the U.S. Not only can robotic automation help manufacturers achieve greater warehouse productivity, but it can also drive significant cost savings as compared to employing workers. Implement Lean Manufacturing. by the year 2025. Final Thoughts.

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How the Terra Acquisition Fits Into the Future Supply Chain

E2open

Campbell Soup was the first company to adopt demand sensing in 2003. Data from E2open’s Forecasting Benchmark Study – encompassing more than $250 billion in sales from 14 multinational manufacturers – shows that demand sensing cuts weekly forecast at the item-location level by 37% compared to traditional demand planning systems.

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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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Refresh Your Supply Chain – Have a Coke and a Smile

Supply Chain Network

In 2003, Coca-Cola enterprises began a five year, $200 million IT plan called Project Pinnacle. The result was improved flexibility of production, as well as better inventory and asset management. How do they do it all? Always Adapting. This company stays on top of technology. Kaitlyn Nakagoshi.

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Supply Chain Disruptions Are New Opportunities – LogiSYM October/November 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Unlike SARS in 2003, the Covid-19 pandemic has spawned an unprecedented Global health pandemic. In a highly globalised and integrated world economy, China plays a pre-eminent role as a manufacturing heavyweight – the factory of the world representing 17%-20% of world GDP.

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History and Evolution of Supply Chain and Logistics

SCMDOJO

Also, traditional logistics focuses its attention on activities such as procurement , distribution, maintenance, and inventory management. In one of the old article of SCMDOJO “ What is Supply Chain Management ? The idea is to have integrated information sharing between all trading partners (suppliers, manufacturers and customers)”.