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The Supply Chain Merry-Go-Around

Supply Chain Shaman

The evolution of the e-commerce market and the required transformation of warehouse management to support the shipment of the “each” fueled Manhattan’s rise as a global player. I first experienced the implementation of OMP and SAP at Eastman Chemical in 2004. The focus needs to be on outcomes.

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Is Your Supply Chain Recession Proof? A Guide for Building a Resilient Supply Chain

SCMDOJO

Businesses may struggle to balance inventory, increasing the likelihood of either overstocking, tying up valuable capital and incurring storage costs, or understocking. Double-Edged Sword of Inventory Management: Declining demand presents a significant dilemma for inventory management. scenarios of -20% and +20% change).

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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. Blaine Inventory Specialist, Syncron Posted on: Nov, 16 2016 Lora, great article! Kai Furmans Professor, KIT Posted on: May, 22 2017 I am referencing to the comment that leasing of warehousing equipment (beyond forklift trucks) is a vision for 2030.

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Supply Visibility: More Important Than Ever. Yet Elusive.

Supply Chain Shaman

Warehouses are full–often with the wrong stuff resulting in the slowing of the forty million shipping containers around the world. Linkedin Comment Donald Cavin Data Warehousing Consultant at Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-James Cancer Hospital & Solove Research Institute. The list goes on and on.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 24 – 30)

Logistics Viewpoints

Micro-Warehouse Provider Pivots as Retail Consumer Market Shifts. since 2004, hit an all-time high of 4,586 points in late March. The CNBC article states, “ As delivery times and consumer demand rose this year, retailers responded by ordering inventory earlier than usual. And now to this week’s logistics news….

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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. Cash-to-cash is a compound metric: (Days of Receivables+Days of Inventory)-Days of Payables=Cash Conversion Cycle. Inventory. My takeaway?

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VTech: A Story of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

Inventory Turns. Better performance in inventory turns than the peer group average for the period studied. Orbit Chart of VTech for the Period of 2006-2015 at the Intersection of Operating Margin and Inventory Turns . The second presentation given in 2004, shared the results. Operating Margin. About VTech.