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The worst Supply Chain practices must be confessed and not only by constraint

KEPLER Consulting

1/ Managing the quality of information. Non-updated product sheets in ERP (purchase price, MOQ, Incoterm,…) resulting in non-compliant supplier orders . This approach impairs flexibility to cope with the hazards of the various downstream systems (production tool, customer demand, etc.). Some examples of worst practices.

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Travel to Compliance and Efficiency with Supply Chain Mapping

RFgen

However, supply chain leaders are often inundated with so much information that it can be difficult to keep track of it all. Having multi-tier suppliers makes this effort challenging, as manufacturing plants may be forced to communicate through tier one suppliers to acquire information from tier two suppliers and so on.

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Travel to Compliance and Efficiency with Supply Chain Mapping

RFgen

However, supply chain leaders are often inundated with so much information that it can be difficult to keep track of it all. Having multi-tier suppliers makes this effort challenging, as manufacturing plants may be forced to communicate through tier one suppliers to acquire information from tier two suppliers and so on.

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Case Roberta Roller Rabbit: Increasing Performance Through Improved Process and Technology

RELEX Solutions

Launched in 2003, RRR has evolved into a lifestyle brand offering a plethora of products that are still printed, cut and sewn by hand in collaboration with artisans preserving ancient traditions. With the RELEX assortment planning solution, RRR has put assortment planning under ‘one roof’”. The hard work began.

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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. Founded in 1963, NCPDM represents the outbound side of logistics and the National Association for Purchasing Management (NAPM) represents the inbound side. Neil Southern, 2011).

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Back to Basics: Is It Time to Break Up With Spreadsheets?

Arena Solutions

In fact, it became so popular that people purchased Apple IIs and IMB PCs just to get VisiCalc. For example, “a cut-and-paste error in an Excel spreadsheet” cost Canadian electricity and utility company TransAlta US$24 million in 2003. [3]. Context—the inability to include all product design information, especially the latest versions.

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How do we Drive Invention to Innovation in Planning?

Supply Chain Shaman

I think that IBM, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Teradata are victims today in the information technology sector. As I read the literature, I felt out of touch and old-fashioned. “How could I not know about supply chain planning software?” Software planning was in the middle of a hype cycle. ” I thought.