Talking Logistics

JUNE 17, 2015

For the past few years I’ve been using that phrase, which you typically find in investment literature, when making the case for innovation in supply chain management. As the table below shows, back in 2008, the U.S. Source: “The Future of Natural Gas: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study,” [link]. But by 2014, the U.S.

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Jaggaer

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Coming on top of a very difficult and complex existing situation, Covid-19 has put additional pressure on profitability and capital requirements in the banking sector in the European Union and Africa, with drops in revenue in the order of 35-45% and the lowest return on equity since the aftermath of the great crash of 2008.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Sales and Operations Maturity Model from 2005-2008. Orchestration enables companies to effectively manage trade-offs between source, make, deliver and sell.) The industry considers the company a leader, but I know the dark side that internally, the IT processes squash innovation. We source this data from Y charts.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2014

made that prediction in 2008 (see the Barron’s article What $300-a-Barrel Oil Will Mean for You ). Brent crude oil prices Dec 2009 – Dec 2014 (Source MoneyAM.com). I use this example to illustrate the challenges (or, perhaps, the futility) of making supply chain and logistics predictions. million bbl/d in 2015.” .

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EcoVadis

JUNE 3, 2018

Blockchain, the innovative technology that powers the digital currency market, has gained prominence since the introduction of the cryptocurrency bitcoin in 2008. Outlook of the Integration of IBM Blockchain for Maersk ( source ). Now, companies are starting to apply blockchain technology to improve supply chain management.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 28, 2016

In our recent analysis of supply chains that are “working well” , we find higher performance when companies have source, make and deliver reporting to the supply chain organization. The period of 2007-2008 was the great recession. Typically, it is a lack of common definition on what defines supply chain excellence.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 16, 2020

Such information streamlined transactions and improved decision-making, but the ERP data did not initially permit connecting and compiling cross-functional data sources. Process improvement is a common goal cited by companies interested in upgrading their supply chains to evolve with innovative solutions.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 21, 2022

Since the inception of this blog in 2008, Supply Chain Matters has provided perspectives and takeaway thoughts from each annual report. GDP level, and a level not seen since 2008. Our perspectives stem from an outside-in end-to-end business process, management and cost adsorption lens vs. that reflected by logistics industry media.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 24, 2015

Notwithstanding many sound reasons for reshoring , an Information Technology and Innovation Foundation report indicates that U.S. There were 10% fewer manufacturers in 2011 than in 2008—a record low since 1977, when the Census Bureau started collecting Business Dynamics data. Future Outlook of Reshoring in America. manufacturing.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2015

How will transportation, inventory, and sourcing policy decisions change in light of this cheap oil environment? Interest Rates : The Federal Reserve in the United States is expected to raise interest rates this week , the first increase since cutting the rate to near zero following the Great Recession in 2008.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 6, 2015

At the event, James Rice, MIT, spoke on innovation, and his reflections on Clayton Christensen’s 1997 classic business book, the Innovators Dilemma. This is disruptive innovation. The spark from Invention to Innovation is slow. Technology invention is happening, but the translation to innovation is slow.

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EcoVadis

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

The sentence comes as a result of the late 2008-2009 salmonella outbreak linked back to PCA plants in Texas and Georgia. The 2008-2009 outbreak was no minor outbreak (and even if it had been, should that matter?). But could have increased supplier oversight prevented the disastrous 2008-2009 outbreak?

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Our (now Army, as our Development Manager, Jerel Byrd calls them) development team are always continually improving the Cerasis TMS, as we know it is vital to have a system that is not only innovative, but sound, secure, and enables those in transportation to do their job all while doing it cost effectively. Read the Full Article Here.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 3, 2019

The major sources of risk in Development and Manufacture contracts in the Aerospace and Defense industries start at the top, where the contracts are awarded, and flow downwards to the subcontracting suppliers. Capacity to innovate [7]. Risk: Capacity to innovate [7]. Innovation is avoided in most aerospace contracts.

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EcoVadis

APRIL 17, 2015

For example, in a 2008 Wall Street Journal article, Dell Inc was slammed for miscommunicating the impact of its carbon neutrality program for which it did not include Scope 3 emissions (up to 10 times Dell’s Scope 1 & 2 combined). 2) Cost savings. Authors: Sheng Ou Yong and Mike Schwartz.

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SCMDOJO

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

For example, statistical techniques are used in a systematic way to reduce variation and improve processes, and there is a stronger focus on results, including customer needs. Figure-c: Evolution of Lean Six Sigma (source: Snee, R.D. – Six Sigma creates a link between tactical actions and strategic focus. Hoerl, R.W.,

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KEPLER Consulting

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

On the front line since 2008, the automotive sector was quickly forced to adapt and work on the flexibility of its model in order to maintain a robust economic performance. Recurring examples. Steering columns or exhaust lines are striking automotive examples.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

Let’s take P&G as an example. The company transitioned from an innovator in the 1990s to a late adopter in the last decade. So, while companies can achieve economies of scale in administration, sales, and logistics, the economies of scale for make, source, and deliver only happen when companies aggressively manage complexity.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

APRIL 8, 2014

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. There are pre-packaged software applications which help companies in analyzing their data and give them meaningful insight into their data - examples are customers demand trends, financial analysis, sales optimization etc.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JUNE 20, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Gopi Krishnan - As regards operator driven maintenance, I see examples of the self-service concept here. Citysourced, with the CDR innovation, extends the IT enabled EAM to the general public. Customer Service.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JULY 17, 2015

Andrew Cox’s new book “Sourcing Portfolio Analysis” represents the more traditional “power-based” view of procurement. In fact, the subtitle for the book, “Power Positioning Tools for Category Management and Strategic Sourcing” gives it all away. A good example of this type of relationship would be……what exactly?

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JULY 3, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. In this blog, with the example of Asset Management for personal health, they emphasize on identifying avenues for adding more Asset definitions to the EAM purview. Sourcing,Procurement,Contract & Spend Management (38).

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Research has proved that the use of social media can vastly improve the sales, lower costs of procurement and bring about innovation in the supply chain. Sourcing,Procurement,Contract & Spend Management (38).

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 7, 2016

by Kevin McGowan A recent New York Times article demonstrated that supply chain management innovations can come from some unexpected places. For example, we currently export 90% of dogfish (cape shark) landed in Chatham, MA to the UK to be used for fish n’ chips. And that’s just one example. Seafood is no different.

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Supply Chain Insights

JUNE 30, 2017

Beginning with the 2008 “New Ways of Doing Business” initiative between Oracle, Wegman’s and Smucker’s, I was fortunate to be a member of the design and development team that created a DSR to accommodate the rich findings from that project. I have had some deep involvement with the development of DSR solutions. One of their largest is SAP.

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Requis

JULY 24, 2020

He agrees that 10 years ago, it would have been difficult to do things that we see innovators doing now, because technologies weren’t as advanced. “If Therefore, any innovations that can help you get around these costs will be really, really big.”. Aoaeh finds Floyd’s scepticism understandable.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Acquisition in the federal government has been identified as a major source of potential savings in the future, as in the private sector, but a recent set of workshops and interviews identified some major challenges that exist. In 2008, the Office of Management and Budgets created the database USAspending.gov.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 9, 2021

And because of that, when we- and we do predictions, we’ve done this since our inception in 2008 and we’ve had a traditional format for how we do our predictions. China is the world’s manufacturing powerhouse, especially in regard to technological innovation and component production. Let’s take another example.

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Arena Solutions

MAY 5, 2022

Jeff has extensive experience working with innovative companies in personal health and fitness and clean energy to help them deliver their solutions to market. As the founder of the Product Realization Group, Mike helps guide the world’s most innovative companies to accelerate delivery of their products, from concept to full market scale.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Few such examples are: Google is inviting its employees in the Santa Monica area to try out its Google Shopping Express service for same day delivery pilots. Business Process Outsourcing. Customer Service. Distribution.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Organizations need to be able to tap into multiple sources of information from both structured and unstructured, internal and external sources, to provide greater insights into key research insights into business strategy questions. Real-time analytics allows people to respond to what is happening now, not last week.

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QAD

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Managers can pull their own reports from anywhere, using a single source of corporate data stored in the cloud, and get the information they need to make decisions. How about a real-life example? Empirical case work demonstrated that SaaS in the enterprise allowed managers to understand competitive actions faster.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 10, 2019

With new supply chain innovations , trends in logistics technology and advancements like automated robots making a big impact on operational efficiency, it seems that supply chain optimization is within reach for more companies than ever before. We needed something innovative, an idea out of the box to pull us out of the storm.

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Freightera

MAY 26, 2017

So you really need to be sourcing whenever possible, as industries, we need to be sourcing stuff locally. We also need to concentrate strategically on the largest greenhouse gas freight emission sources first. The number one source that we have to work on is in North America, particularly the United States.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

MARCH 20, 2019

The earliest mention of Blockchain technology was the Oct 2008 article published by the ever enigmatic, Satoshi Nakamoto which evangelized the use of distributed ledger philosophy to develop the digital current called Bitcoin. How did Blockchain technology emerge? I would like to call Bitcoin as Blockchain 1.0.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 27, 2020

Opinion polls, including a careful study by Stanley Greenberg and his associates for the Roosevelt Institute, show that trade is among the major sources of discontent for a large share of Americans. “This trend is most apparent in global innovations value chains. Similar views are apparent in Europe. ” 5.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 4, 2022

”[1] The term “data scientist” was coined by Patil and his colleague Jeff Hammerbacher back in 2008 and they applied it to “high-ranking professionals with the training and curiosity to make discoveries in the world of big data.” ” Enter the Skeptics. ”[3] Her answer, “The world doubts it.”

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