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Have You Given Your Planner Love Today?

Supply Chain Shaman

It took six months for supply chain executives to sense the market downturn of 2007 and make adjustments to their supply chain. 2) The Story of Policy, Strategy, and Modeling. The supply chain combines policy, strategy and models. Ask data modelers using supply chain strategy tools to validate policy and refine the outcomes.

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What will it take for your company to establish a Sustainable Procurement Policy?

EcoVadis

which effectively persuaded the largest toy company in the world to promise to establish a sustainable procurement policy. Mattel, who suffered from major supply chain issues in 2007 when lead was detected in their toys and who spent US $110 million on “reputation repair”, are in the spotlight once again.

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

Supply Chain Shaman

All industries operate today with more inventory than in the pre-recessionary period of 2004-2007. Actively design your supply chain to focus on the management of variability and implement inventory buffer policies. I write so much about inventory that the frequent reader may feel like I am preaching, but please bear with me.

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How Cloud Technologies Can Help in Times of Recession

Arena Solutions

It’s predicted that the present transition would lead to an increase in cloud services as work-from-home policies have increased the importance of cloud software or services. During the Great Recession of 2007-2009, cloud computing services got stronger and turned into a hub for IT solutions.

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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 focus is on channel data: price; inventory positions; and policies. Order Policy. We then began the discussion on outside-in processes.

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Help Supply Chain Planners Be More Successful In These Uncertain Times

Supply Chain Shaman

With the downturn in the financial markets, the looming recession, and the fundamental shifts in demand—less travel and stay at home work policies—demand is changing. Time to Sense Market Shifts in the 2007 Recession. While good news travels quickly in an organization, bad news travels slowly.

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Sparking a New Conversation: Let’s Build a Network of Networks

Supply Chain Shaman

When I was an analyst at AMR Research in 2007, I tracked thirty. Map Policies and Flows. In this process, gain clarity of contract requirements and policy guidelines and try to incorporate them into the flows. Looking back at history… When I was a Gartner analyst in 2001, I tracked over 400 trading exchanges.