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Supplier Performance Management – The Ultimate Guide

SCMDOJO

Current State of Supplier Performance Management Nowadays, the interest in improving supplier performance management methods has increased due to the increase in global sourcing and that of the global economy in particular (Gordon Sherry R, 2008). The questions that are most often asked are: What metrics should I use?

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SanDisk’s Story of Customer Segmentation Strategies Using Inventory Postponement

Supply Chain Shaman

How do they buy from you? How do they buy from you?” The journey began with a one size fits all approach in 2008, and the policies evolved over the course of the last seven years. Both improvement and performance define supply chain excellence. The discussion of customer-segmented supply chains happens often.

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Clouds: A Beautiful Thing for Sure!

Supply Chain Shaman

In studies from the periods of 2006-2008, there was slow adoption of 15-20%, and today, the supply chain leader prefers a cloud-based solution. E2open went public in July 2012 and in February 2015 participated in a private buy-out for $273M by Insight Venture Partners. In 2002, there was no interest. The reason?

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Supply Chain Management:Rapid Innovation will Differentiate the.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Online sales have been growing at double-digit rates and the implications profoundly point to the reality that consumers prefer online tools and have shifted their shopping and buying preferences. Christensen book, The Innovators Dilemma. The initial U.S.

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How do we Drive Invention to Innovation in Planning?

Supply Chain Shaman

At the event, James Rice, MIT, spoke on innovation, and his reflections on Clayton Christensen’s 1997 classic business book, the Innovators Dilemma. I, like many of you, read this book when it was published. Buying patterns are changing quickly, and the insights are multi-dimensional. I was a skeptic.

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Supply Chain Disruptions: A Survival Guide - SupplyChainOpz

Supply Chain Opz

The company won the ISM 2012 Award for Excellence in Supply Management (category:process). Resilience Project, its methods has been tested under many extreme circumstances such as, - 2008: Chengdu Earthquake in China. Metrics look very simple and its kind of nice to have something like these. And according to the U.S.

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A “Swiss Army Knife” of Supply Chain Talent Requirements: Views from a Former Wolfpack Student

NC State SCRC

Stuart William was in one of my former MBA classes at NC State in 2008, and graduated into one of the worst economies ever in May of 2009. He then went into global imports for the central purchasing group in Raleigh. In the last year, Stuart has disposed and destroyed all that inventory and taken it off the books. “We