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Walmart again Raises Chargeback Stakes

Enterra Insights

2] She wrote: “There’s no doubt about it: manufacturers who fail to meet a retailer’s vendor standards can get into financial trouble. threshold for food consumables. Back in 2003, Zeiger wrote, “In some cases, [suppliers insist], the requirements are petty, arbitrary or even illogical. Footnotes. [1]

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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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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. Supermarkets, food suppliers, pharmaceutical and medical industries were the main beneficiaries. Chairman — Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transportation (CILT). SUPPLY CHAIN DISRUPTION—Respond, Recover and Regrow.

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The Top Dozen Supply Chain Innovations of All-Time

Operations and Supply Chain Management

The network analyzed was that of Hunt-Wesson Foods. The Kiva Robotic Picking System: The idea for the orange AGV-like robots that bring inventory to order pickers was first conceived in 2003 by CEO Mick Mountz, and with the help of some MIT professors Kiva brought the technology to market less than two-years later.

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Conscious Clothing? Why Fashion's Going Green

Material Handling & Logistics

For years now, we’ve watched the old guard of the packaged-food industry get pummeled as consumers look to fill their grocery carts with trendier items bearing feel-good labels such as “natural” or “sustainably sourced.”. announced a new initiative that eliminates many chemicals from its jeans manufacturing process and reduces textile waste.