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Supply Chains By the Numbers

Supply Chain Shaman

When 2015 rolls in, for me, it will mark a decade of quantitative research focused on understanding the evolution of supply chain management. Insights on Supply Chain Organizations. In the early years, there were no supply chain organizations. It has seven functions reporting through the supply chain leader.

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How We Stubbed Our Toe in The Evolution of S&OP

Supply Chain Shaman

I wrote my first report on Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) while sitting on the floor in the Atlanta airport in 2005 when I was an AMR Research analyst. Sales and Operations Maturity Model from 2005-2008. Tight coupling of the supply chain forecast to the financial forecast will improve value. Let me explain.

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Sustainable Supply Chain Management.

ModusLink Corporation

Green supply chain history: The origin of Supply Chain Management can be dated back to the early 20th with Henry Ford who vertically integrates the automotive supply chain and organizational practices. The purpose of going green is shown in the table.

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Judging Supply Chain Improvement: Campbell Soup Case Study

Supply Chain Shaman

Over the course of the last two years, we at Supply Chain Insight s have worked on a methodology to gauge supply chain improvement. We named it the Supply Chain Index. We have found that supply chain metrics are gnarly and complicated.During Background on the Supply Chain Index.

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Building Supply Chain Resilience Is Much More than Fixing Supply Problems

MIT Supply Chain

Companies need to map these critical linkages in their supply chains when evaluating risk and resilience. GM’s troubles are symptomatic of the supply shortages that continue to disrupt supply chains worldwide. A laundry list of capacity problems There are seven ways in which a supply chain can fail.

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Boeing’s Potential Sourcing Reversal- Financial or Operational?

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog provides an update on the ongoing production, quality reputation and corporate cultural challenges that surround commercial aircraft producer Boeing. Boeing spun out this supplier, which was once a part of this plane maker’s internal production in 2005 in a major strategic sourcing move.

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Two Measures: Stock Buybacks and Supply Chain Transformation- Are They Related?

Supply Chain Matters

In this Supply Chain Matters editorial commentary this Editor dwells on data relative to U.S. corporations having actually accelerated stock buyback efforts contrasted to ongoing investment needs for supply chain transformation focused on added agility, more improved resilience and augmented technology support.