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Evolution of the Warehouse: How it Adapted to E-Commerce and New Technology Trends?

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Coronado added that e-commerce will impact distribution networks as much as companies building manufacturing plants in foreign nations to save money affected the networks in the past. A white paper by the Arizona State University W.P. “The global shift toward e-commerce is changing how the retail and logistics industries operate.”

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Four Strategies What Worked

Supply Chain Shaman

” So, I started work with Arizona State University to take balance sheet data from 2003-2007 to analyze which combination of metrics drove the highest market capitalization. Colgate outperformed P&G in Return on Invested Capital (ROIC), and P&G exceeded Colgate in inventory turns. The question was, “What mattered?

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Sales and Operations Alignment: Often The Missing Link

Supply Chain Shaman

I first met Shane in 2007 at the beginning of his work with Syngenta’s value chain. In 2007, Shane Emms was asked to take a Global Supply Chain leadership assignment at Syngenta. He led the team during the period of 2007-2009. The company’s focus is on biotechnology and genomic research. Shane’s Story.

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Seven Misconceptions on Managing Inventory in a Market-Driven World

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And, when they do, the focus on network design is still on bricks and mortar–where to put manufacturing and distribution locations–not on form and function of inventory, and the design of inventory flows. The market for multi-tier inventory management was overhyped and largely underdelivered in the period of 2005-2007.