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What the Coronavirus Pandemic Means for Global Supply Chains

Shipchain

The activity of Chinese manufacturing plants has fallen in the past month and is expected to remain depressed for months.” . Although initially compared to the SARS outbreak, Coronavirus seems to be hitting much harder and much more quickly than the 2003 epidemic. How to strengthen your supply chain during these times of uncertainty .

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Walmart and the Past, Present, and Future of RFID

AB&R

Walmart’s RFID journey Walmart announced in 2003 that its top 100 suppliers must tag their pallets and cases starting by 2005. There are still variables, but experts in the industry are aware of them and know how to bypass them. Even so, businesses have eyed RFID for many years. To understand why, we need to investigate the past.

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Post-pandemic Supply Chains

Enterra Insights

Sheffi notes, “It is not too early for companies to think about how to position themselves for a successful, speedy recovery. To do that companies must look deep into how they manage the most basic mechanisms of their supply chains and operations.” ” Post-pandemic supply chains. .”[5]

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Walmart and the Past, Present, and Future of RFID

AB&R

Walmart announced in 2003 that its top 100 suppliers must tag their pallets and cases starting by 2005. There are still variables, but experts in the industry are aware of them and know how to bypass them. Opportunities for manufacturing. If there were ever a time to invest in the technology, it is now. Walmart’s RFID journey.

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Four Strategies What Worked

Supply Chain Shaman

I aim to help business leaders not typically steeped in the day-to-day supply chain life understand how to lead supply chain teams better. ” So, I started work with Arizona State University to take balance sheet data from 2003-2007 to analyze which combination of metrics drove the highest market capitalization.

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Supplier Performance Management – The Ultimate Guide

SCMDOJO

Attention should be paid to the following aspects: Does the supplier have a full range of machinery to manufacture the required product? How to remedy a possible shortage of machines? Develop data collection instruments When deciding on KPIs, you have to determine how to cool the information that feeds the dashboards.

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Travel to Compliance and Efficiency with Supply Chain Mapping

RFgen

Supply chain mapping is often applied to projects in order to blend transparency with organization, but those in management must understand how to effectively leverage this tactic. Suppliers play a critical role in every facet of the supply chain but especially manufacturing. Defining Supply Chain Mapping.