NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This year, as in the past five years, our supply chain index contributed to the overall ranking of firms in the top 250 best managed companies , as ranked by the Drucker Institute. However, during our current state of supply chain shortages, there are definitely some benefits to owning your own supply chains!

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 14, 2014

“We live in a world where supply chains, not companies, compete for market dominance. But companies often have diverging incentives and interests from their supply chain partners, so when they independently strive to optimize their individual objectives, the expected result can be compromised. ”. What Is Value?

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Source: Dictionary.com. As supply chain clichés take flight, clients struggle with execution. As supply chain clichés take flight, clients struggle with execution. One of these concepts that I hear a lot; but see few tangible examples, is the idea of “customer-segmented supply chain.”

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Global Trade Management

MAY 22, 2017

Chain of custody is a term often thrown around as a buzzword. In combination with the latest technology hypes like IoT, the chain of custody is magnified to address everything from supply chain security to regulatory compliance. What is chain of custody? How and why is it relevant for supply chains?

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

In the supply chain, the questions do not change; but the answers do. Quote from a Supply Chain Leader at a Conference in Europe. Yesterday, Peter Bolstorff, Executive Director, APICS Supply Chain Council, called to discuss the use of the Supply Chain Index by APICS to measure supply chain improvement.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 26, 2019

” Lora Cecere ( @lcecere ), founder and CEO of Supply Chain Insights, believes S&OP is suffering from a Peter Pan complex — it’s never grown up. Since that time, technology has changed rapidly. She suggests five specific reasons companies haven’t adopted the latest technologies. They are: 1.

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Herlitz Inventory Management

JULY 7, 2021

Growing up with a father who developed inventory management software for a living spawned some interesting conversations around the dinner table. As the economy reopens post-COVID, there are still supply chain shortages. source: tradingeconomics.com. source: thebalance.com. Forward Buying and Inflation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 26, 2015

Markets drive supply chains. The supply chain needs to respond to market demand and consumer sentiment. Traditional supply chain processes do not sense. For supply chain leaders, this market downturn defines a new set of opportunities and risks. They respond. This is a major disconnect.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

In this blog, we’ll delve into the integrated Lean Six Sigma approach, exploring its benefits, deployment models, moreover the implications for SMEs. – DMAIC methodology links tools and techniques in a sequential manner. – Comparatively simple deployment tools. – Lastly, Not applicable to all industries.

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NC State SCRC

JULY 5, 2019

Procurement analytics, which supports decision making in procurement management, typically handles problems and decisions that are related to cost reduction, supplier management, cost modeling, procurement-led innovation, market strategies, supply chain risk, and stakeholder value improvement (Handfield, Jeong, and Choi 2019).

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 26, 2016

In the last six months, in my travels, I have presented to supply chain teams in China, Belgium, France, Germany, Peru, Mexico, Netherlands, South Africa, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. I strongly feel that if I am going to cover the global supply chain that I need to experience it. A Personal Reflection.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 24, 2018

Keeping with my normal Sunday night ritual, I poured myself a cup of tea to pen my weekly post for the Supply Chain Shaman. I have been writing weekly posts for this blog for eight years. The Shaman blog now has over 15,000 readers. My passion is helping supply chain leaders. It is open to all.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JANUARY 5, 2012

Technology Services. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. View all Infosys blogs. Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 10, 2019

The company wasn’t a pure startup at the time (it was founded in 1981), but like all software companies during those years, it rode the dotcom tidal wave up — and then crashed down with everyone else (see period from 1999 through 2002 in the stock chart below). Source: Google. Where is Descartes today?

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MAY 25, 2012

Technology Services. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. View all Infosys blogs. Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

The premise of the Christensen’s book is that when companies focus on current customer needs, they fail to adopt new technologies or business models that will meet the customer’s unstated or future needs. I think that IBM, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Teradata are victims today in the information technology sector.

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EMERGE App

JULY 16, 2018

They’ve come into their own in the past decade when Amazon started “Fulfilled by Amazon” back in 2006. Suddenly, small and medium-sized businesses had access to Amazon’s superior technology, customer experience and order fulfilment for a fee. Your website and Amazon FBA are just tools for your business.

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FLEXE

MARCH 5, 2017

Founded by 32-year-old Sophia Amoruso in 2006, Nasty Gal’s rise and fall happened in less than a decade. But, because it operated at such low product minimums, it struggled to source quality factories that produced quality product. That’s especially true for the supply chain. Nasty Gal Inc.,

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NC State SCRC

JUNE 15, 2021

The SCRC’s Supply Management Maturity Index was highlighted in a recent Wall Street Journal article , that identified the companies best prepared to weather the storm ahead in terms of supply chain disruptions. In this blog, I’ll explain a bit more about the rating criteria we used to assess firms.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Financial balance sheet improvements cannot be driven by traditional supply chain processes. In the words of a supply chain leader yesterday, “Lora, please give me stories of success. In this blog post, we share the story of VTech. About the Supply Chains to Admire Research.

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ShipBob

AUGUST 3, 2020

They have backed about 900 businesses, including major technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Twitter. Founded in 2006, this firm is slightly newer in comparison to others. Product sourcing. Product sourcing is the process of purchasing or creating products that you can sell. Greycroft Partners.

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Freightera

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Freightera also opened the first lanes automating refrigerated less than truckload and full truckload freight. Over 9 billion automated rate quotes in Freightera’s inventory connect 23,000 communities. SOURCE Freightera. Freightera users can now get live instant quotes without creating accounts. About Freightera.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 26, 2022

In this Supply Chain Matters editorial commentary we address the dichotomy of revisiting supply chain strategic sourcing strategies in the wake of a rapidly changing l landscape of challenges. Strategic Sourcing Shifts Away from China. Basis of Materials Strategic Sourcing. Background.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

MAY 2, 2014

  Supply chains have become global in part because of outsourcing as companies want to be ‘nimble’, carry fewer assets on their books and lower their headcount. With those kind of amounts spent annually over such a prolonged period, one question for any company would be whether the work should be in-sourced.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 18, 2023

The following is a guest blog from Craig Lukasik , one of my former MBA students from the Poole College of Management’s supply chain program. I was really pleased when he contacted me about this blog, and am delighted to feature it here. Supply Chain Metrics!?!? Thanks Craig!

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