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Visibility: If Only I Could See

Supply Chain Shaman

Examples include Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Warehouse Management (WMS_ or Advanced Planning (APS). In 2004-2006, Greg Aimi (now a Gartner analyst) and I worked on a common definition of visibility for over a year. These sources while functional are difficult to connect. What does an IT taxonomy mean?

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How Supply Chain Strategy Misalignment is Killing Kmart USA

Logistics Bureau

The two companies switched positions in 1991, an event which heralded the start of a decade-long decline for Kmart, which ended in bankruptcy in 2002 and led to a subsequent merger with Sears in 2004. According to our own research at Logistics Bureau, less than 40% of businesses have documented a strategy for their supply chain operations.

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Tracking the Response to Typhoon Haiyan

MIT Supply Chain

The cluster approach 1 proposed after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami has been implemented and improved over the years. There are good sources of information about how the system is working and how many people are being served during a crisis. I have listed several of my usual sources below (note that they do have a logistics angle).

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Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Wolfgang Lehmacher!

Supply Chain Game Changer

At that time, I familiarized myself with programming which enabled me to write codes to digitize documents in order to eliminate paper in the office and reduce archiving space. In 2004, I started to drive La Poste’s expansion outside of Europe. Supply chains are a significant source of environmental damage.

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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #5

Supply Chain Trend

He looked at the current situation and quickly started documenting the information and planning flows dysfunctions. Jon: In general there is much disinformation from sources who over complicate S&OP, have tried to sell it as a complete “turnkey” software application or software application in the cloud the past few years.

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