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Professor Yossi Sheffi on Resilience, Visibility, and Biggest Risks this Holiday Season

Elementum

He published Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage in 2005, which focused on preparing supply chains for catastrophic events. Now, though, we might go to China for some things, but for assembly we might go to Vietnam, Malaysia, or more recently, an African country. It turned out that nobody knew.

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Probabilistic Forecasting: Right Fit for Your Business?

Supply Chain Shaman

Spairliners, founded in 2005, to provide spare parts for Airbus A380 planes (the largest passenger airliner in the world). Customers include Qantas, Air France, Lufthansa, and Malaysia Airlines. As shown in the figure in 2013, Spairliners had 73% stock availability and by 2017 their stock availability increased to 95%.

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36 innovative companies re-inventing and rethinking supply chain and logistics

6 River Systems

In early 2013, Belk launched a vendor-direct program. Mary Kay @MaryKay Mary Kay has a long history of supply chain innovation, earning accolades as far back as 2004 and 2005. When customers order items not stocked at one of Belk’s fulfillment centers, those items are shipped directly from the vendor.

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China and the global textile machinery

Exapro Hub

Increase of shipments of new short-staple spindles for the first time since 2013 (around 1.65m spindles). Percentage of textile imports from China (in 2015 and 2005): Bangladesh: 47% / 39%. Malaysia: 25% / 49%. Most of the new short-staple spindles (95%) are shipped to Asia. share of the world market. Cambodia: 30% / 63%.

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