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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. Integration of corporate social responsibility metrics in planning. Most often the focus is on transportation or logistics, but does not take into consideration the trade-offs between make, source and deliver. Functional metric orientation. Supply Chain Design.

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Walmart Supply Chain: Building a Successful Integrated Supply Chain for Sustainable Competitive Advantage

SCMDOJO

Utilizing Walmart’s Own Trucking System and Cross-Docking Logistics Another critical factor contributing to Walmart’s supply chain success is the utilization of its private trucking system and cross-docking logistics. Faster lead times enables Walmart to respond quickly to changes in demand, reducing the risk of stockouts.

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What Kindergarten Lesson Applies Best to Supply Chain Technology?

Talking Logistics

With all companies sharing a common codebase, a common data-store, and having a consistent definition of fields and functions, everything from user behavior to company metrics can be readily analyzed. By having simplified access to end user behavior including click paths, search criteria, common actions, etc.,

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Seeing Beyond the Firewall

Supply Chain Shaman

Since most companies invested in the automation of the enterprise, not the value network, visibility within the company and the transportation network is a strength. In the building of global supply chains, in the last decade, across value networks, outsourcing to third-party logistics, and contract manufacturing accelerated.

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Takeaways from Descartes Evolution 2019

Talking Logistics

I got started just as the dotcom craze was taking off, with new logistics startups coming to market every day (all of them announcing they were “The world’s leading provider of X” even though they were just a few months old). Descartes has 20,000+ customers on its Global Logistics Network, which experienced 21% growth and processed 18.6+

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Supply Chain Convergence Making Collaboration and End-to-End Visibility a Reality

Talking Logistics

It’s not unusual for a company’s transportation management system (TMS) and warehouse management system (WMS) to not be fully integrated, or for a degree of manual processing or reprocessing to be necessary to process customer orders. Increased Collaboration – everyone working on one shared set of data within one agreed process.

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The Top 10 Manufacturing Blog Posts from 2014

GlobalTranz

Today, we kick off our annual year end series highlighting the top blog posts in each of our 7 main categories: Manufacturing , Supply Chain , Logistics , 3PL , Business , Transportation , Freight. Finally, the top 10 list was rounded out safety and metrics. These will only contain posts written in 2014. Read Full Post.