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FreightTech Reality Check with Brad Forester

The Logistics of Logistics

With functional expertise in Global TMS Programs, Change Management, Organizational Design, and Systems Integration, he has been leveraging these skills to benefit clients since he founded JBF in 2003. JBF Consulting has been helping shippers select, implement, and optimize logistics systems since 2003.

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How Can Life Sciences Supply Chains Navigate a Disrupted World?

Logility

To meet these challenges, many inside the industry and also those who serve it have become focused on agility-through-digitization, and for good reason. Back in 2003, an entrepreneur named Patrick McGinnis coined the phrase FOMO — Fear of Missing Out — and it quickly entered the cultural lexicon.

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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. appeared first on Transportation Management Company | Cerasis.

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Walmart again Raises Chargeback Stakes

Enterra Insights

Reporting on this development, Jennifer Smith ( @jensmithWSJ ) and Sarah Nassauer ( @SarahNassauer ) write, “Looking to cut inventory while meeting e-commerce demands, the retailer wants more of the goods it orders delivered on time and in full. ” Meeting the chargeback challenge. threshold for food consumables. .”

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How the Term “Supply Chain Management” Was Coined

SCM Research

Interestingly, in a 2003 strategy+business article , Oliver has revealed that, looking for a catchy phrase, his consulting team originally proposed the term “integrated inventory management” (I2M).

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Intelligent IBP: A Need for Decision Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

THE TRADITIONAL FOCUS ON INFORMATION, NOT DECISIONS In the evolution of IBP, there has been a lot of focus on the sequential planning process, meeting schedule, and planning capability. But it is good to remember that the early pioneers always designed S&OP, the predecessor of IBP, as an executive decision-making forum.

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Intelligent IBP: A Need for Decision Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

In this blog : A Need for Decision Centricity THE TRADITIONAL FOCUS ON INFORMATION, NOT DECISIONS In the evolution of IBP, there has been a lot of focus on the sequential planning process, meeting schedule, and planning capability. Questioning can only improve the decision if it is focused on the six decision quality elements.