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Quality Management in Supply Chains: Performance and Conformance

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

Quality Management in Supply Chains: Performance and Conformance. As another example, Mattel suffered from a massive recall of toys in 2007 because one of their contractor’s subcontractor’s employees substituted the paint purchased by Mattel with toxic lead paint. By Guillaume Roels. Distorted Performance Standards.

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REPOST: The True Cost of OTIF Failure with Andrew Lynch

The Logistics of Logistics

Zipline Logistics , founded in 2007, is a digitally enabled transportation partner specializing exclusively in serving the food, beverage, and consumer product manufacturers. The 3PL’s capacity procurement team utilizes a proprietary qualification process to identify and contract the highest quality providers to operate within its network.

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The Ruan Story with Ben McLean

The Logistics of Logistics

Ben joined Ruan in 2007 and served in a number of corporate and operational roles, including COO and CIO, before assuming his current role in 2015. Ongoing commitment to quality and process improvement. About Ben McLean. Ruan Transportation Management Systems Facts. 300+ operations nationwide. Asset- and non-asset-based solutions.

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Horsemeat Supply Chains

SCM Research

Based on a series of incidents in food supply chains, Roth and her co-authors (2008) have developed a conceptual framework for quality management in food supply chains. I believe that this framework can help improving food supply chains, but customers should also stop focusing solely on food price rather than food quality. 2008.00043.x.

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The True Cost of OTIF Failure with Andrew Lynch

The Logistics of Logistics

Zipline Logistics , founded in 2007, is a digitally enabled transportation partner specializing exclusively in serving the food, beverage, and consumer product manufacturers. The 3PL’s capacity procurement team utilizes a proprietary qualification process to identify and contract the highest quality providers to operate within its network.

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Loser of Q2 2014: Aston Martin

Supply Chain Movement

The manufacturer of luxury sports cars which is often associated with James Bond is recalling three quarters of all the models built since November 2007 because the plastic used by one of its suppliers does not meet quality standards. Trends Aston Martin China James Bond Manufacturing materials Mattel pedal problems suppliers'

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How We Stubbed Our Toe in The Evolution of S&OP

Supply Chain Shaman

Industries carried on average 32 days more inventory in 2020 than in 2007. (I Why do we have 32 days more inventory by company in 2020 than in 2007? Deployment of deeper statistical engines for inventory management with a focus on safety stock will improve inventory levels. I give you this evidence in this blog.). Mistake #5.

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