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Lean Six Sigma for SMEs: A Path to Continuous Improvement

SCMDOJO

– Lastly, Not applicable to all industries. While, this can enhance their reputation, attract customers, and position them as industry leaders, it can also provide a sustainable competitive advantage in today’s dynamic business landscape. – Six Sigma creates a link between tactical actions and strategic focus.

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

Supply Chain Shaman

The details: 2001-Acquired Clairol for 4.9B$ 2002-Divestiture of Jif and Crisco to Smuckers–813M in Stock 2003-Acquisition of Wella for 7B$ 2005-Merger with Gilette for 57B$ 2008-Purchase of Nioxin for 300M$ 2009-Purchased Art of Shaving for 60M$ 2009-purchased ZIRH for 40M. I thought that the industry averages were fairly constant.

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How Can Life Sciences Supply Chains Navigate a Disrupted World?

Logility

heads towards its second pandemic winter, there is talk of the far-reaching effects of a global economy in the grips of continued, unpredictable disruption, while at the same time many industries – life sciences being a significant one – are grappling with their own unique challenges and growing pains. As the U.S. Brad Pawlowski, Accenture.

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The Network Effect in Supply Chain and Logistics

Talking Logistics

About four years ago, UPS launched its “ We Love Logistics ” ad campaign, which helped raise public awareness about the logistics industry (and helped my family and friends better understand what I do for a living). Source: UPS. Source: UPS. Supply Chain Operating Network Model (as depicted in 2003).

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RFID in the Supply Chain: Fizzling Technology or the Future of Effective SCM?

GlobalTranz

In 2003, Walmart announced that all of its suppliers would need to have Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags on all pallets and cases by 2006. For many reasons, that transformation did not happen and RFID was put on the industry’s back-burner. Download white paper.

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If Only There Were More Choices

Supply Chain Shaman

The hype cycle was my favorite Gartner model when I was a Gartner analyst in 2001-2003.) Most of this effort will be with best-of-breed solutions, and I predict we will see an increase in the use of open source data techniques–Hadoop, Spark, Kafka– with more focus on schema on read. Yes, I know. The pressure is on.

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7 Pitfalls of Outsourcing and How to Avoid Them - SupplyChainOpz

Supply Chain Opz

One of the earliest and most cited articles is called " The Seven Deadly Sins of Outsourcing " by Barthelemy 2003. Anyway, people tend to focus on a short term cost reduction and let the good planning slide.