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How Can Life Sciences Supply Chains Navigate a Disrupted World?

Logility

Transporters have greater visibility into where shipments are headed, when they’re expected to arrive, who will receive them, when they were received, and, importantly, whether required temperatures were kept consistent throughout the shipping process. It also reduces carbon dioxide emissions by about 100,000 metric tons.”. Challenges.

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Supplier Performance Management – The Ultimate Guide

SCMDOJO

The biggest challenge is that simply offering metrics, even those that appear to be the “right” metrics, usually doesn’t produce any results. The questions that are most often asked are: What metrics should I use? What metrics do others (in my industry) use? Where do I begin?

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Walmart again Raises Chargeback Stakes

Enterra Insights

Back in 2003, Zeiger wrote, “In some cases, [suppliers insist], the requirements are petty, arbitrary or even illogical. ” Logistics – “To control one of a business’s largest costs after wages, why not use Transport as a Percentage of Sales with OTIF to ensure service levels remain while costs are driven down?”

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Dealing with Big Data

Enterra Insights

From the earliest starting point of time until 2003,” observes Priya Dialani ( @priyadialani ), founder of Les Fleurs, “the whole world just had five billion gigabytes of data. 2] Yossi Sheffi ( @YossiSheffi ), Director of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, asserts big data already is an organization’s most valuable asset.

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