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Visibility: If Only I Could See

Supply Chain Shaman

Examples include Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Warehouse Management (WMS_ or Advanced Planning (APS). In 2004-2006, Greg Aimi (now a Gartner analyst) and I worked on a common definition of visibility for over a year. In this shift, the legacy SAP Business Warehouse (BW) implementation are especially problematic.

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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. imports from China grew from about $45 billion per year in 1995 to more than $280 billion per year in 2006.

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Nasty Gal: When a Disrupter Isn’t Disruptive Enough

FLEXE

Founded by 32-year-old Sophia Amoruso in 2006, Nasty Gal’s rise and fall happened in less than a decade. The growing company began selling clothes under its own name, it procured a distribution center in Kentucky, and venture capitalists started to take notice—leading to at least $40 million in funding. Nasty Gal Inc.,

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Intelleflex Announces Cellular, GPS-equipped RFID Reader & Cloud-based ZESTâ„¢ Data Services Platform

Supply Chain Network

Intelleflex ZESTâ„¢ Data Services, a cloud-based repository for aggregating, warehousing and sharing information across the supply chain, facilitates on-demand access to actionable data for improved supply chain operations to provide a complete picture of data spanning the entire supply chain. Intelleflex. 408-200-6567. kpayne@intelleflex.com.

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How the International School of Zug and Luzern Achieved Time- And Cost-Savings by Transforming Its Purchasing Process

Precoro

Auditors couldn’t look through the school’s procurement documents and evaluate their spending because there was insufficient record keeping of purchase requests and purchase orders. "Prior And then, due to customs and shipping expenses, the total eventually comes to ₣11,000. 1961), the Riverside School (est.

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Which Metrics Matter? Interview with Philippe Lambotte

Supply Chain Shaman

We are currently working with Arizona State University (ASU) to use advanced operations research techniques to understand the patterns in our database of 52 supply chain financial ratios for the period of 2006-2013. In the operational management of operations, cost most often gets the first focus. What does this mean?

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