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Measuring Up?

Supply Chain Shaman

Historically, the traditional supply chain focused on improving costs. Today, more mature supply chain teams focus on delivering value. While companies want to improve supply chain performance and drive value, it is easier said than done. The period of 2007-2008 was the great recession.

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The worst Supply Chain practices must be confessed and not only by constraint

KEPLER Consulting

However, it is essential to react quickly in order to prevent harmful effects due to the overload of the operational system (Véronneau and Cimon, 2007) and also to preserve a certain agility in for the Supply Chain. Distribution between the different Supply Chain divisions is an obstacle to communication.

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Next-generation supply chains: Efficient, fast and tailored

Global Trade Management

By having many service providers involved, which among each other are often not connected, the friction in moving goods from source to destination are very high. Next-generation supply chains: Efficient, fast and tailored. Following are some key statements: Companies that beat the competition on supply chain performance also.

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Managerial Practice Will Need to Catch up with the Emergence of Real-time Supply Chains

NC State SCRC

The ability to respond to real-time data and derive supply chain performance improvements is closely linked to prior work in organizational information processing theory (OIPT). Examples of visibility include demand visibility, market visibility, and supply visibility.

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Will the Downturn Signal an Upturn?

Supply Chain Shaman

This gives supply chain leaders a false sense of security. I remember December 2007 like yesterday. The supply chains are more complex today than a decade ago. I designed the agenda to help supply chain leaders rethink the future in a deeper way than any other conference agenda that I see in the market.

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5 supply chain initiatives to combat ESG risks

Taulia

Adopting a digital supply chain management platform makes it easier for companies to gain oversight across the entire supply chain, track supply chain activities, measure performance against targets, and identify risks.

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3 Mini Case Studies: Successful Supply Chain Cost Reduction and Management

Logistics Bureau

The company was replenishing dealers inventory on a weekly basis, by direct shipment and cross-docking operations, from source warehouses located near Deere & Company’s manufacturing facilities. But like many of the most successful worldwide brands, the coffee shop giant has been through its periods of supply chain pain.