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Coronavirus Highlights Fragility of Global Supply Networks

Jaggaer

But even if containment has the desired effect, what are the wider consequences of shutting down schools, shopping centers, factories, transportation and supply networks? China ’ s economy has grown in leaps and bounds from roughly 4% of world GDP in 2003 to 1 6% today. The consequences on supply networks?

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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. Figure 1 shows a sample proposed SPM project structure for a transportation services company. We are talking about a key business process that impacts multiple functions beyond just organizing purchasing or quality.

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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.

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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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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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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. General Cost Reductions: Maybe it is just one of the advantages of eAuctions, but it is still significant!

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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.”. Nearly twice as much apparel was sold in 2017 than in 2003. Earlier this year, Levi Strauss & Co.