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

Supply Chain Shaman

Industries carried on average 32 days more inventory in 2020 than in 2007. (I Organizations can align to drive value despite the allegiance to functional metrics. While the press is full of articles on the lack of inventory, I allege that we need to rethink inventory. Transition functional metrics to focus on reliability.

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Four Strategies What Worked

Supply Chain Shaman

Recently, work has been slower than usual, and I have not been traveling, so I have been writing an article daily. Forbes has a contest, and as a Forbes contributor, I have been competing to up my rankings (thanks for reading my articles). This comment is the genesis of this article. What did work?” He was right.

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The Better Goal: More Fuel Efficient Trucks or Using Fewer Trucks?

Talking Logistics

According to the press release : The proposed standards are expected to lower CO2 emissions by approximately 1 billion metric tons, cut fuel costs by about $170 billion, and reduce oil consumption by up to 1.8 miles out of its network from 2007-2010 and had increased its CWT per truck from 382 in FY 2007 to 415 in FY 2010, an 8.6

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Winning strategies for distributors and manufacturers during an economic downturn

EazyStock

In this article, we will show you some of the most important steps and measures to equip your organization for an economic downturn and create opportunities to flourish even during an economic downturn. It found that 20% outperformed competitors’ results during the downturn and recovery.

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Supply Chain Leadership Driving Industry 4.0 & Resilience During Crisis – LogiSYM July 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

2007) in IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Volume 246, Advances in Production Management Systems, eds. Oxford Economics and SAP (2020). Surviving and Thriving. How Supply Chain Leaders minimize risk and maximize opportunities. Oxford Economics & Sap. www.oxfordeconomics.com pp.1-15. Olhager, J., Persson, F.,

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My Take: E2open Buys Terra Technology

Supply Chain Shaman

As an analyst in the supply chain market for 15 years, I have written many articles on best-of-breed technology companies purchased by a larger company. In 2007-2014 Terra added inventory management, multi-tier demand sensing, transportation forecasting, and long-term forecasting.

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What is the return on ERP implementation? Results from our research

Supply Chain View from the Field

Such systems are also instrumental in establishing aligned tactical and strategic performance metrics systems that drive improved economic outcomes (Bendoly et al., Please go to the IJOPM website to download the article if you’d like more details!