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

Supply Chain Shaman

The promise of a well-intended consultant just sounds sooooooo good. 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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7 Rules of Fashion Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Opz

In order to reduce lead-time, Quick Response (QR) strategy was developed and there are 2 core principles, namely, partnership between retailers and suppliers to improve the information sharing and the adoption of technologies such as EDI, UPC Code and point of sales data (POS). Fashion SCM 1.0 Fashion SCM 2.0 Fashion SCM 2.0

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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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Why is Tesla considering advertising?

Proxima

The growth of Tesla has been truly astonishing over the past decade, the company was founded in 2003 and in under 20 years has grown to be the largest producer of Electric Vehicles (EV’s) globally. All this has been achieved in 20 years and without the need for any large-scale above or below the line advertising. and General Motors – 6.1%

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History and Evolution of Supply Chain and Logistics

SCMDOJO

Although logistics represents a whole system of space/time interdependencies, we believe that the discussion of its history and its chronological evolution still requires extensive studies to explore its origin and its advance in time, from a new point of view. It became a large-scale activity during the industrial revolution.

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Supplier Performance Management – The Ultimate Guide

SCMDOJO

Most companies rely on on-time delivery, price reduction, and quality service from suppliers to make more profit. They do not relate to any overall company procurement goals and objectives. This person can sit on the procurement council or the steering committee. How is it possible? What metrics do others (in my industry) use?

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

KEPLER Consulting

In the absence of good product data quality, non-compliant supplier orders systematically result in poor product availability, one solution to this problem is to set up an efficient communication system with the purchasing and supply divisions that can reduce data update times up to 90 %. Some examples of worst practices.