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Understanding the Gartner Top 25 Supply Chains 2025

Supply Chain Digest

The former AMR Research brilliantly came up with the top 25 idea in 2004. There will be a document to refer to at any time by any one who needs clarification. The documentation can be useful historical data for any future endeavor. Falling out of the top 25 this year were Inditex/Zara, Pfizer, Dell, and Nike. What do you say?

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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. In this shift, the legacy SAP Business Warehouse (BW) implementation are especially problematic.

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The Internet of Things in the Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

An NFC reader is a tool that can be integrated into the warehouse management picking verification system. ” • Barcode label : According to the ModusLink staff, “Plenty of operations happening inside the warehouse rely on administrative documentation. . in 2004 to $0.38 in 2019, for example. ”[6].

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Supply Chain : When a bicycle is better than a Mercedes.

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

The summer of 2004. Food spoiled on the ring road because drivers had consumed their diesel, stocks blocking the warehouses and sales plummeted dramatically. Do not bother me unless the warehouse is on fire” said my French boss before taking his annual leave. It was 3 weeks after I had changed the job and the company.

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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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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. We used computers to accelerate our work processes and started communicating by fax.

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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. For example don’t build a bigger warehouse and new warehouse management systems if you can create more of a drop shop program of product from suppliers direct to customers.

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