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

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply chain excellence is easier to say than to explain. 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. The reason?

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5 Reasons why eAuctions Drive Better Savings

SCMDOJO

eAuctions are online real-time dynamic discussions between one purchasing organization and a group of pre-qualified vendors competing for the purchaser’s trade. Throughout a genuine and collaborative cooperation with business vendors, they produce innovative approaches to current procurement difficulties.

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How Do We Heal the Healthcare Value Network?

Supply Chain Shaman

Over the last decade, neither the pharmaceutical nor medical device manufacturer has been able to drive the revenue/employee productivity gains of their comparative peer groups. They each lag in their understanding of supply chain excellence, and are now struggling to build effective supply chain teams. Healthcare.

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Do Supply Chain Planning systems generate any value?

Kinaxis

They have piloted the process in Excel and know that they need an enterprise level solution for a global roll-out of S&OP. However, excellence in corporate planning matters. However, in a subsequent article published in 2003 and titled “ Computing Productivity: Firm-Level Evidence ” Erik states that.

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A Conversation with Vittorio Favati, TVS Supply Chain Solutions GFS

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

I had the opportunity to work with several excellent organisations, most notably, nearly 20 years with Ceva (including EGL or Eagle Global Logistcis) and now TVS SCS. We managed the supply chain for China’s largest manufacturer with close to US$500m in logistics spend. This is in a position to shift again.

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Next Level Apparel® Takes its Demand and Inventory Planning to the Next Level with the Logility® Digital Supply Chain Platform

Logility

Before implementing the Logility platform in January, Next Level Apparel used a mix of Excel spreadsheets and a legacy proprietary ERP system to manage its supply chain. Founded in 2003, Next Level Apparel is a design innovator, industry leader and top supplier of premium blank apparel. About Next Level Apparel.

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How do we Drive Invention to Innovation in Planning?

Supply Chain Shaman

He discussed the adoption of the steam engine and the electric motor in the manufacturing sector. Today, we take these technologies for granted, but the electric motor was the genesis of the horizontal manufacturing plant. Buying patterns are changing quickly, and the insights are multi-dimensional. I was a skeptic.