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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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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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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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This Week in Logistics News (January 27-31, 2014)

Talking Logistics

UltraShipTMS: New Features for Cloud Based TMS and Transportation Optimizer. First, as in previous years, he called for increased investment in transportation infrastructure. We’ll need Congress to protect more than 3 million jobs by finishing transportation and waterways bills this summer. Robinson Opens Austria Office.

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Energy Efficiency Is Key to Better Logistics

Material Handling & Logistics

This is where it gets tricky, according to Yossi Sheffi, director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. Sustainable transportation is a key component of future development of many cities. “As We consider our environmentally-friendly policies as a competitive edge,” says Browne. “It Last-Mile Delivery. In the U.S.,

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Staying Ahead of Supply Chain Paradigms – LogiSYM September 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The research shows that policies can achieve economic recovery and decarbonization in parallel. Bain & Company finds that “Across industry sectors, companies that took bold and effective action during the 2007–08 global financial crisis performed much better than those that retreated to precrisis approaches and activities”.

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

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Foreseeing the pricing factor on the demand side is vital for organisations to address pricing policies. 2007) in IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Volume 246, Advances in Production Management Systems, eds. In a crisis economic factors are critical. These are likely to influence shoppers buying choices.