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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

We started the pandemic with twenty-one more days of inventory than we had in 2007. However, based on industry and experience, 21% of manufacturers reported struggling during the first part of the pandemic. As Company, after Company, reports earnings shortfalls, the supply chain takes on even greater importance. Rebuilding.

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Will Warehouses Eventually Go Dark?

Enterra Insights

Phillips ( @EricaEPhillips ) reports some retailers were so desperate to find warehouse space this past holiday season they created pop-up warehouses in vacant suburban lots and parking garages.[1] According to Patrick, the right kind of warehouse is big and technologically advanced. The Internet of Things and Big Data.

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Getting Inventory Right: Hope with Hype and Recycled Software?

Supply Chain Shaman

In parallel, I have been hard at work on a report on multi-tier inventory optimization for the last two weeks. It will delay my report. In the research for the inventory optimization and the S&OP reports, I find a handful of VERY experienced SAP clients doing codevelopment with the SAP IBP product. Why is this relevant?

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Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Stephany Lapierre, CEO at tealbook!

Supply Chain Game Changer

I launched my second business, a strategic sourcing and procurement consulting firm in 2007. Technology and the use of Big Data is allowing procurement and supply chain to increase transparency and automation. We have consistently helped companies improve supplier diversity reporting by 20% to 150% overnight.

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What € 30M funding really means to us: Accelerating sustainable procurement

EcoVadis

First of all, on behalf of the team here, we can thank our Co-Founders and Co-CEOs Pierre-François Thaler and Frédéric Trinel for their tireless dedication, and who have devoted their intelligence, passion and seemingly endless energy to building EcoVadis since 2007. Bravo, and thank you! The market has spoken. APIs and services).

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50 Online Resources for Aspiring Supply Chain Scholars

Supply Chain Opz

The good point of this database is that it visualizes data for you so you can understand more quickly. Resource: Google Public Data 3. Track public policy development on Pew Research Center At Pew Research Center, you can browse the report related to public policy published since 1983. Resource: Pew Research Center 4.

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Top 2016 Supply Chain Strategy Posts from the Supply Chain Link Blog

Arkieva

View the full post or view the snippet below: I got the idea for this blog post after reading Shaun Snapp’s LinkedIn post on the topic of big data. In the post, he correctly argues that the case for big data is sometimes exaggerated. Will Big Data change the world? Read More ». Read More ». Read More ».