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Inventory Management: We Can Do Better

Supply Chain Shaman

In Table 1, I share research collected for the Supply Chains to Admire analysis on the average days of inventory by industry across the period of 2004 to 2019 by increments to match economic shifts. The period of 2007-2008 was the downturn of the recession while the period of 2009-2013 marked the recovery. ”).

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Inflation is Back Up – Are you Ready?

Herlitz Inventory Management

source: tradingeconomics.com. source: thebalance.com. The law of supply and demand, coupled with other environmental and political factors, have led to two months of inflation that are higher than we have seen in 30 years (see table below). ?. Have we lost the knowledge of how to be profitable during periods of high inflation?

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VTech: A Story of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

VTech drove significant improvement in operating margin through the recession of 2007-2009 and then drove improvement in both inventory margin and operating margin for the period of 2010-2012 with some regression in the period of 2013-2015. The second presentation given in 2004, shared the results. I remember September 2007 very well.

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Logility Buys Halo BI

Supply Chain Shaman

With annual revenues of 16-44$M, in the period of 1997-2007, the Company returned to its parent to become a wholly owned subsidiary of American Software in 2007. A significant source of revenue for the company is maintenance renewals. In 2016, total revenues for American Software were $113.9M.

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Reflections, Thank-you(s) and Rethinking the Future

Supply Chain Shaman

Open Source Technologies (Examples include Hadoop, Spark, Kafka). This impact declined at the start of the last decade, and the impact of the third-industrial revolution stopped in 2004. As growth slowed post 2007 recession, companies fought back. This includes: Sensors coupled with data from the Internet of Things (IOT).

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Dr. Bradley Nelson contributes much more “Emotion Code” and “Body Code” sources to His collection to assist partners eliminate Imbalances carrying these right back

Veridian Solutions

Whenever Dr. Nelson started developing their system in 2004, he stated the guy never ever believed it can possess influence this has had. .” And then he has also recently upgraded his mobile app if you want to reap the benefits of his techniques while on the move. “who have envisioned that all this continues within figures?

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Global Cargo Monitoring / Cargo Tracking: US CBP suspends GTX.

Global Trade Management

By having many service providers involved, which among each other are often not connected, the friction in moving goods from source to destination are very high. Due to the departure of key personnel, DHS today is less capable than in 2004 during the prosecution of OSC. ► 2007. (4). Subscribe To. Friday, 4 April 2008.

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