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Inventory Everywhere, But Not the Right Product to Ship

Supply Chain Shaman

Despite investments in planning, today, industries hold 28 more days of inventory than in 2004. The traditional efficiency model, embraced by most organizations as the definition of supply chain excellence, focuses on the reduction of labor costs. Today’s organization is less aligned than in 2004. The reason?

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A Story of Throwing the Baby Out With The Bathwater in Supply Chain Planning

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2004, I worked with a Midwest North American meatpacker to help define its supply chain strategy. The answer changes day-to-day and requires an optimization engine to measure market potential and align the supply chain to market demand while minimizing scrap. What do I mean? To illustrate, let me share a story.

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Industry Transformation: Advanced Manufacturing and Digitalisation of Supply Chain-Logistics

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The Covid-19 pandemic severely exacerbated the shock to the Global economy.Global and Regional Trade and related Supply chains experienced unprecedented disruptions. The pandemic exposed major supply chain vulnerabilities affecting the Manufacturing, Industrial Logistics , Commercial sectors as well as Food Security challenges.

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Welcome 2019

Supply Chain Shaman

Bear markets drive heightened interest in supply chain management. These supply chain groups are more global and diverse. Gradually companies realize that the supply chain is a capability, not a function. The evolution of leaders is challenging the mental models of the supply chain.

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Disruption in China Ripples Across Global Supply Chains in April 2022

Supply Chain Matters

In this Supply Chain Matters commentary, we highlight the latest quantitative data related to global manufacturing PMI activity levels for April. in March, and the lowest level recorded since August 2020. April’s reading was noted as the lowest since July 2020. This index fell to a value of 52.2, value, up from 53.1

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PINC named Top Supply Chain Projects for 2020 by Supply & Demand Chain Executive

PINC

Union City, CA – July 29th, 2020Supply & Demand Chain Executive , the executive’s user manual for successful supply and demand chain transformation, has selected PINC, the leader in digital yard ™ solutions, as a recipient of an SDCE 100 Award for 2020.

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Supply Chain Future: Anticipating the unknown

Supply Chain Movement

Scenario planning is one way of gaining insight into what the future may hold. Closing supply chain loops and creating flexible and transparent chains which operate at the right speed are possible response strategies. Value Chain 2020 project. By Marcel te Lindert.