Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 17, 2023

Hasso Plattner who co-founded SAP in 1972, stepped down from his CEO leadership role in 2003. After its founding in 2014, the tech provider indicates that it is now targeting third party logistics, manufacturing, and retail industry prospects, with a combined footprint of over 1,500 warehouses.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Figure 1 shows a sample proposed SPM project structure for a transportation services company. 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?

Vendor Strategies 55

Vendor Strategies Resource Reduction Price Reduction Procurement Analytics 55

Operations and Supply Chain Management

APRIL 24, 2015

The Kiva Robotic Picking System: The idea for the orange AGV-like robots that bring inventory to order pickers was first conceived in 2003 by CEO Mick Mountz, and with the help of some MIT professors Kiva brought the technology to market less than two-years later. The LCC is now of course a standard logistics practice today.

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Material Handling & Logistics

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

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.”. announced a new initiative that eliminates many chemicals from its jeans manufacturing process and reduces textile waste.

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