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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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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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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. With cloud-based analytics, non-relational database open source code sharing and advancements in predictive, prescriptive and cognitive analytics, what is old, can become new again. Map Policies and Flows. The market of Supply Chain Operating Networks consolidated.

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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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Will inflation rage the longest in the UK?

Taulia

The Bank of England in February raised its base rate to 4% 11 ; given the lag inherent in the effects of monetary policy, it is likely that the cost of money, at the time of writing, its highest since before the 2008 financial crisis 12 , will have a cooling effect on the British economy and in turn ease inflationary pressures.

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Lean Six Sigma for SMEs: A Path to Continuous Improvement

SCMDOJO

Adapted from Ehrlich (2002); Stamatis (2002); George (2003); Bendell (2006); Bhuiyan et.al, (2006); Andersson et.al, (2006); Arnheiter and Maleyeff (2005); Nonthaleerak (2005); Kumar (2007); Magnusson et.al, (2003) Read more on Top 15 Lean Six Sigma Books to Level Up Your Continuous Improvement Efforts & Strategy on our website SCMDOJO!

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Why Energy Supply Chains are Transitioning to Renewables

Requis

Despite the persistance of some strong fundamentals , 2020 may signal the true turning point in the shift to renewable sources for energy companies. This is not an isolated phenomenon: Norway has been divesting a number of funds of oil and gas investments, especially from high-carbon emission sources like Canadian oil sands.