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

Supply Chain Shaman

Note the elongation of the cash-to-cash cycle in the chemical industry of 38 additional days when comparing the 2014-2019 averages to the pre-recession period of 2004-2006. All industries operate today with more inventory than in the pre-recessionary period of 2004-2007. It is worse in some industries. The average is twenty-five days.

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

Talking Logistics

At the center of Atlas’ product line is Atlas Exchange, a secure document exchange providing a “connect-once, access-all” network, securely linking retailers, manufacturers, suppliers and logistics service providers. We are a transportation company – we are not law enforcement. drug enforcement officials.

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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. Manufacturing is designed and planned in isolation. Recognition of constraints and the management of floating bottlenecks. Management and planning of the entire network against a value network strategy. Manufacturing. At that time, they planned on spreadsheets.

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Infor’s Acquistion of GT Nexus: If I Had a Magic Wand

Supply Chain Shaman

Founded in 2002 under the name of Agilisys, Infor rebranded in 2004. There is seldom one technology used within a manufacturing company to connect B2b value networks.) With the larger ocean carriers and the port congestion, GT Nexus becomes more and more important to retail and manufacturing companies. It is clear.

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A Conversation with Vittorio Favati, TVS Supply Chain Solutions GFS

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

We managed the supply chain for China’s largest manufacturer with close to US$500m in logistics spend. Geopolitics – Near-shoring, quality and reliability, risk management; 4. Low cost countries dominating manufacturing today are experiencing labour cost inflation and certain advantages are deteriorating.

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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. Extreme weather like this would damage manufacturing and transportation infrastructure in the U.S. the largest major manufacturing area in the U.S. and key regions worldwide.

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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. By March consumers and manufacturers alike could not obtain critical supply. 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.