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

Supply Chain Shaman

Orchestration enables companies to effectively manage trade-offs between source, make, deliver and sell.) Industries carried on average 32 days more inventory in 2020 than in 2007. (I Organizational alignment in manufacturing organizations is worse between operations and finance teams today than in 2013. Mistake #5.

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Inventory Management: We Can Do Better

Supply Chain Shaman

The period of 2007-2008 was the downturn of the recession while the period of 2009-2013 marked the recovery. The source of this data is a syndicated data provider of public reporting termed “Y-Charts.”). Days of Inventory Peer Group Across Time Periods.

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Inflation is Back Up – Are you Ready?

Herlitz Inventory Management

source: tradingeconomics.com. source: thebalance.com. The law of supply and demand, coupled with other environmental and political factors, have led to two months of inflation that are higher than we have seen in 30 years (see table below). ?. Have we lost the knowledge of how to be profitable during periods of high inflation?

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Walmart: 3 Keys to Successful Supply Chain Management any Business Can Follow

GlobalTranz

restaurant industry made in 2013. About 81% of Walmart merchandise passed through those centers in 2013, the website said. Sources: “Annual Financials for Wal-Mart Stores Inc.” The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25 for 2013.” May 22, 2013. Walmart has held a place among Gartner’s top 20 supply chains since 2010.

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My Take: E2open Buys Terra Technology

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2007-2014 Terra added inventory management, multi-tier demand sensing, transportation forecasting, and long-term forecasting. In July 2013 E2open announced it acquired supply chain vendor icon-scm , and in June 2014 E2open announced its acquisition of SERUS Corporation, a “cloud-based manufacturing and product management provider.”

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Energy Efficiency Is Key to Better Logistics

Material Handling & Logistics

And customers, many of whom are Millennials, want to know the sourcing of the products they buy and will make decisions based on a company’s sustainability record. The company also set a new goal that by 2025, 40% of all ground fuel will be from sources other than conventional gasoline and diesel, an increase from 19.6%

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Hellmann Worldwide Logistics kooperiert mit arviem AG

Global Trade Management

By having many service providers involved, which among each other are often not connected, the friction in moving goods from source to destination are very high. Seit Anfang Juni 2013 kann der Osnabrücker Logistikdienstleister Hellmann Worldwide Logistics einen weiteren Kooperationspartner willkommen heißen. ► 2011. (1).