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Managing Efficiently an Extended Supply Chain – An Electrium Story

DynaSys

Electrium is one of the UK’s leading electrical groups and since January 2006, has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Siemens Holdings plc. Electrium have recently acquired a business unit in South Africa, formerly part of the Crabtree family.

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Talent Trap

Supply Chain Shaman

Operational and executional planning processes are usually focused on geographic implementation by factories, distribution centers, and third-party manufacturers and distributors. In 2006, I met a man by the name of Dick Clark that traveled the world working on role definition of planners for Procter & Gamble. Out of Africa.

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New Bookends: The Tale of Supply Chain Global Leaders in Consumer Products

Supply Chain Shaman

The report analyzes supply chain performance and improvement by the Consumer Products Leaders in the period of 2006-2014. In the selection of time frames to analyze, we look at the long-term view including the recessionary period of 2006-2009, the post recessionary period of 2009-2014 and the more recent time period of 2011-2014.

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How Do You Define a Mature Supply Chain Planning Organization? (Part 1)

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2006, they made a decision to implement a supply chain planning solution. Manufacturing is designed and planned in isolation. Integration with manufacturing systems to understand actual run times and Operating Efficiency (OEE). Manufacturing. Manufacturing programs are implemented as standalone programs.

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Illegal Supply Chains: selling stolen and counterfeit drugs

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

billion between 2006 and 2012 to fight Malaria in Africa that kills 600,000 annually.    Despite Novartis’ efforts in distributing its malaria drug (Coartem) on a non-profit basis, they discovered most of the drugs were stolen and then resold in the black market and counterfeited Coartem was sold throughout Africa

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The History of the Shipping Container

Freightos

Export manufacturing starts moving away from ports. Asia, South Africa, Australia/NZ, North America and South America are all largely containerized. By 1983, container ships are carrying 12 million TEUs , with trade routes extending to the Middle East, South Asia and Africa. 0 TEUs 0 meters long. Shipping between Europe, S.E.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

GlobalTranz

Export manufacturing starts moving away from ports. Asia, South Africa, Australia/NZ, North America and South America are all largely containerized. By 1983, container ships are carrying 12 million TEUs , with trade routes extending to the Middle East, South Asia and Africa. Did You Know That …. Shipping between Europe, S.E.

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