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

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Innovation and supplier management calls for cloud-based integrated systems between partners and advanced predictive models. Predictive analytics will quicken demand response and involve product-use insights to improve accuracy against external factors affecting demand (e.g. Efficiency and cost management.

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Collaboration? When It Comes to Cash-to-Cash, We Don’t Know How to Walk the Talk

Supply Chain Shaman

Cash-to-Cash Metrics. Cash-to-cash is a compound metric: (Days of Receivables+Days of Inventory)-Days of Payables=Cash Conversion Cycle. While touted as a digital procurement provider, it took the Company nine days to onboard me as a vendor, and two weeks to process a Purchase Order. In times of uncertainty, cash is king.

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Is Your Supply Chain Ready for the Recession?

Enterra Insights

Alan Rappeport ( @arappeport ) and Jeanna Smialek ( @jeannasmialek ) report, “The International Monetary Fund issued a stark warning about the coronavirus’s economic toll, saying that the world is facing its worst downturn since the Great Depression as shuttered factories, quarantines and national lockdowns cause economic output to collapse.

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QAD Solutions Guide: Offering Overview

QAD

The QAD solution offering has expanded beyond the original QAD MFG/PRO (1984-2007) software to now include a full-featured suite of integrated software solutions to manage manufacturing, financials, operations, customer and supply chain processes. Embedded Analytics. Advanced Analytics. Trade Compliance Analytics.

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Seven Misconceptions on Managing Inventory in a Market-Driven World

Supply Chain Shaman

Executive, after executive, lament, “They have purchased many technologies and sponsored many projects to reduce inventories, but they are not seeing results.” We are systemically evaluating each industry in the Supply Chain Insights Metrics That Matter series of reports. These efforts are not enough.

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50 Online Resources for Aspiring Supply Chain Scholars

Supply Chain Opz

Track public policy development on Pew Research Center At Pew Research Center, you can browse the report related to public policy published since 1983. The report itself is so comprehensive and full of useful data and charts. Need more analytics power? Studying about lean manufacturing and can't find free VSM software?

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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

When you think about the product lifecycle from cradle-to-cradle through the moments of truth of purchase, usage, and disposal, what are the opportunities to improve corporate social responsibility? So, what are the market signals to model to forecast demand at the cadence of the market? Bio-engineering? Customization?