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Uh-Oh! Insights On How P&G Failed And What This Means For You

Supply Chain Shaman

The details: 2001-Acquired Clairol for 4.9B$ 2002-Divestiture of Jif and Crisco to Smuckers–813M in Stock 2003-Acquisition of Wella for 7B$ 2005-Merger with Gilette for 57B$ 2008-Purchase of Nioxin for 300M$ 2009-Purchased Art of Shaving for 60M$ 2009-purchased ZIRH for 40M. Discontinued in 2011.

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Jeroen van Weesep (Lego) is the Supply Chain Professional 2014

Supply Chain Movement

– The Netherlands, 5 June 2014 – Jeroen van Weesep from Lego is the new figurehead of Dutch supply chain management. DnA Languages presented the Supply Chain Professional 2014 with a personal prize: a language course of his choice. The 2014 finalists. In addition to securing eternal fame, the winner received two prizes.

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Live From JDA FOCUS 2014 Day 2

BlueYonder

The first day of JDA FOCUS 2014 ended with a festive Grand Party at the MGM Pool Deck last night. The highlight of today’s general session was a presentation by Captain Richard Phillips , who caught the world’s attention when he was captured by Somali pirates in 2009. FOCUS Supply Chain FOCUS 2014 Grand Party Innovation Zone'

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How to Earn Money Through Bitcoin!

Supply Chain Game Changer

For example, you might be familiar with the fact that bitcoin was unconfined in 2009 and was invented in 2008. Jan 8 th , 2009. You can estimate the return of investment availed by an explicit bitcoin investor who has invested in bitcoin since 2013 or 2014, and he is definitely a millionaire at the instance. August 2008.

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BASF: A Story of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

Over the period of 2009-2015 only 88% of companies made improvement on the “Supply Chain Metrics That Matter.” (The Note in Figure 1 that BASF drove great improvement in the period of 2009-2013, but then slowed in 2014-2015. Comparison of Performance and Improvement of Companies in the Chemical Industry for 2009-2015.

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Conquering the high seas: What’s shaking the global liner shipping industry?

DELMIA Quintiq

Capacity of container ships handled in 2014. In 2014, 39% of all container ships travelling worldwide had capacities of over 14,000 TEUs and the number of megaships continues to grow. Decrease in port calls for big ships since 2009. Make way for the colossus of the seas.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 9-13, 2015)

Talking Logistics

business inventories flat, inventory-to-sales ratio highest since 2009 (Reuters). percent from January 2014. percent over February 2014. percent over February 2014. percent…Compared to the extreme demand created by the Polar Vortex in February 2014, however, volume was 37 percent lower. percent in December.