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Help Supply Chain Planners Be More Successful In These Uncertain Times

Supply Chain Shaman

Before boarding the plane, I watched a traveler pull a diet Coke from the bin and thought about the struggle to source sweetener with the rise of COV-19. As I poured the dog food into the bowl for my pups, I wondered if I was going to have to switch kibble due to the looming issues of sourcing taurine—a health additive in many pet foods.

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Building the Network of Networks

Supply Chain Shaman

The group is working on case studies to test new technologies like blockchain, cognitive computing, supply chain operating networks, and open source analytics. Port infrastructure and logistics capacity are growing issues. In 2007, it took six months for companies to sense the downturn in markets and align supply chains.

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2020 Requires Big Wings and Feet

Supply Chain Shaman

The organization, tightly capacity-constrained failed to forecast and build capacity ahead of market demand. The two primary buffers in the supply chain are manufacturing capacity and inventory. Ironically, inventory levels today are higher than they were in 2007; yet customer service levels issues abound. The reason why?

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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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Is A Customer-Centric Strategy the Same as Demand-Driven? Outside-In?

Supply Chain Shaman

A Demand-Driven Value Network as defined by AMR Research in 2007: A network that senses demand with minimal latency to drive a near real-time response to shape and translate demand. The design of buffer strategies–capacity, inventory, and supplier relationships–to absorb demand and supply variability. Buffer Design.

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Top 6 Wholesale Distribution Trends for 2019

EMERGE App

The rise of China in the past decade coincided with a global economic boom after the financial crisis of 2007-2008. Business costs will rise for those who are sourcing some or most of their raw materials or goods from China. Also, supply capacity may limit the Chinese export replacement potential. The Rise and Rise of China.

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Global Cargo Monitoring / Cargo Tracking: Greater Globalization.

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. Monday, 19 November 2007. Businesses in the EU and US are increasing their investment in manufacturing and sourcing offshore. Wednesday, November 21, 2007 2:44:00 pm.

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