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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. When companies reward OEE in manufacturing and POV in procurement, companies will systemically make the wrong stuff.

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Sustainable Supply Chain Management.

ModusLink Corporation

Four fundamental practices: Based on (Ali Esfahbodi, 2016) research, Chinese and Iranian governments have focused their fight for SSCM based on four fundamental practices: sustainable procurement, sustainable production along with sustainable distribution , and reverse logistics. Do you need help figuring out how to become more Sustainable?

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Adapting Pharmaceutical Companies’ Distribution and Supply Networks

Jaggaer

For more on pharmaceutical procurement, register for our upcoming webinar. From 2005 to 2015, most companies expanded their portfolio with at least 25% of total revenue coming from Asia Pacific and emerging markets. If you are interested to learn more about procurement in the pharmaceutical space, register for our July 8 webinar.

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The History of Supply Chain Management! (Infographic)

Supply Chain Game Changer

pallets and pallet lifts) to improve the very labor intensive processes of material handling and how to take better advantage of space using racking and better warehouse design and layout. In the 1940s and 1950s, the focus of logistics research was on how to use mechanization (e.g.,

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Podcast: Susie Bodnar on the CSCMP and the New Directional Shifts in Supply Chain

Requis

Why the era of supply chain is now at hand: When I graduated in 2005 there was no such thing as a supply chain manager, and now there is. It’s not just about procurement or warehousing, we go all the way to reverse logistics. Supply chain is fun because there’s always a problem to solve. We’re experiencing the bullwhip effect.

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Amazon Effect: What Does Amazon Teach Us With Its Obsession Over Customer Experience

Turvo

This includes the industrial space as business-to-business buyers in procurement, who have experienced shopping experience on Amazon, have come to both expect and demand a similar buying experience in their professional lives. . In 2005, the Amazon Effect started to lay hold when the company launched its Amazon Prime service.

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Building Supply Chain Resilience Is Much More than Fixing Supply Problems

MIT Supply Chain

These disruptions include Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the Sendai disaster, the start of trade wars between the US and China in 2019, and the Covid-19 pandemic. warehousing space) to several years (e.g., Our analysis shows that losing one or more of the seven core capacities hobbles supply chains in various ways.