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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

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. Most often the focus is on transportation or logistics, but does not take into consideration the trade-offs between make, source and deliver. Use of third-party data for transportation lane and drayage times by day/time of week. 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. GT Nexus is one of the strongest providers of transportation visibility for the global ecosystem. Despite numerous acquisitions and product development efforts, SAP and Oracle are much larger industry giants. It is clear.

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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. However, the day after tomorrow envisions a different outcome: a second ice age. and key regions worldwide.

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A Conversation with Vittorio Favati, TVS Supply Chain Solutions GFS

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Geopolitics – Near-shoring, quality and reliability, risk management; 4. Manufacturing will be greatly influenced by carbon-conscious modes of transportation and cost and we may see more shifting to near-sourcing. In my view, five key changes are making a global impact: 1. Technology – The race to digitalisation; 3.

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Applying History’s Lessons to New Resiliency Plans

CH Robinson Transportfolio

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. By driving risk management and supply chain resiliency through end-to-end global visibility and connectivity to their carriers, suppliers, and inventory.