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Collaboration? When It Comes to Cash-to-Cash, We Don’t Know How to Walk the Talk

Supply Chain Shaman

Inventory, in this time of uncertainty, is the organization’s most important buffer to protect against variability. However, organizations are not good at managing inventory. Management of the cash-to-cash cycle is critical to maintaining working capital. Inventory. It is worse in some industries.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 14-18, 2014)

Talking Logistics

According to a Wall Street Journal article : In a 15-count indictment filed in San Francisco, federal prosecutors say that beginning in 2004 the company repeatedly ignored warnings from the government it was breaking the law by shipping drugs ordered from online pharmacies that dispensed them to anyone who filled out an online questionnaire.

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How Do You Define a Mature Supply Chain Planning Organization? (Part 1)

Supply Chain Shaman

I have worked with this client since 2004. Monthly design of the supply chain including form and function of inventory and inventory placement. Clear understanding of the supply chain as a complex system with executive capability to manage the trade-offs versus using a common understanding.

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Stories of Supply Chain Leadership: An Interview with Joan Motsinger of Seagate

Supply Chain Shaman

We then rated companies on their ability to manage and improve a portfolio of metrics: operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). We were an early adopter of the E2Open technology and we experimented on building B2B networks early in 2004. First Phase: 2002-2006. We are on the journey.

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Creating a Cognitive Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

Steve Banker ( @steve_scm ), Service Director for Supply Chain Management at ARC Advisory Group, notes machine learning has been used in the supply chain field since at least 2004.[3] 3] Like other AI tools, machine learning requires a lot of data. ” Staying Afloat in an Ocean of Data.

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Hollywood’s Top 10 Supply Chain Disaster Movies

Resilinc

The Day After Tomorrow (2004) We typically think of rising temperatures and global warming when we think of climate change. The destruction or disruption of these systems, as depicted in the movie, would make it challenging to communicate and coordinate shipments, track inventory, and manage logistics.

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Applying History’s Lessons to New Resiliency Plans

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Due to lean inventory strategies, many manufacturers only keep 15-30 days of inventory on hand. However, we saw similar supply chain outages associated with the 2004 Tsunami in Thailand, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and Japan’s earthquake and Tsunami in 2011. Superstorm Sandy was uniquely catastrophic.