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Reinventing Supply Chains: Focus on Human Factors

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply chain was defined in 1982 as interoperability between source, make and deliver. It includes hedging strategies, alternate bill of materials, supplier sourcing strategies, changing routs to market, redesigning push/pull decoupling points, demand shaping policies, and use of outsourced manufacturing and distribution.

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Delivering the Drinks: Streamlining Beverage Transportation with Kristina Bernarducci

The Logistics of Logistics

Offers national pallet management services, acting as a single source for pallet supply, retrieval, and tracking. About Wreaths Across America Wreaths Across America is an American nonprofit organization established in 2007 by wreath producer Morrill Worcester, assisted by veterans and truckers. Bettaway Pallet Systems, Inc.:

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Inventory Management: We Can Do Better

Supply Chain Shaman

Downsizing inventories over the past decade crippled the response.” In Table 1, I share research collected for the Supply Chains to Admire analysis on the average days of inventory by industry across the period of 2004 to 2019 by increments to match economic shifts. Days of Inventory Peer Group Across Time Periods.

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When We Don’t Have Answers, We Need to Work Quickly To Build Them

Supply Chain Shaman

Let’s Start With a Discussion on Inventory. When we look at table 1, we see burgeoning inventories in some industries and extreme shortages in others. We are not good at inventory management. Inventory Levels Over the Quarters of the Pandemic. Companies struggle to have the right inventories. The end result?

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Reflection: The Journey to be Market Driven

Supply Chain Shaman

The organization failed to anticipate the downturn in the cereal market during the 2007 recession, resulting in a loss of consumer confidence in the organic product segment. They never leveraged their point-of-sale data to detect market shifts, and the supply chain organization prioritized cost reduction. The result?

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5 Years Later: 3 Things COVID-19 Changed in Supply Chain And 2 It Didn’t 

BlueYonder

A rise in nearshoring and away from single-source dependency The pandemic was a wake-up call that exposed the fragility of globally interconnected supply chains and the risks of over-reliance on distant suppliers and single-source strategies. 3 long term changes to the supply chain 1.

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Preparing to Run Supply Chains at the End of the Second Global Economy

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2001, China joined the World Trade Organization, increasing access to China as both a channel and a supply source. Expect greater variability in lead times and an increase in in-transit inventory. Inventory Management. Few are ready to rationalize the differences in the price of inventory on receipt. Take two actions.