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Inflation is Back Up – Are you Ready?

Herlitz Inventory Management

Since 2009, when Herlitz Inventory Management was founded, annual inflation has been below 3 percent in the US. source: tradingeconomics.com. Have we lost the knowledge of how to be profitable during periods of high inflation? It hasn’t been lost here at Herlitz Inventory Management! Financial crisis. ACA, Dodd-Frank Act. Debt ceiling crisis.

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Intelligent IBP: A Need for Decision Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

Palmatier and Crum (2002), Coldrick, Ling, and Turner (2003) and Bob Stahl (2009) all assert that S&OP is first and foremost an executive decision-making process. Decision Quality A decision quality framework is proposed in detail in the book Decision Quality (Spetzler and colleagues, 2016).

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The Digital Supply Chain: Making The Leap With A Ball and Chain

Supply Chain Shaman

Last week, I spoke on the evolution of the digital supply chains and my vision for Supply Chain 2020 at the World Trade Group Event in Miami. I had touched some nerves with my five predictions for 2020: Digital, Outside-in Value Networks. I believe the demographics shifts shown in Figure 1 will transform Supply Chain 2020.

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Unwrapping the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive: Embracing Sustainable Packaging in a Circular Economy

SupplyShift

From 2009 to 2020, packaging waste in the EU increased by 20% , reaching 79 million tons in 2020. Recycling rates did improve slightly from 63% to 64% but have been stagnant since 2016, underscoring the pressing need for more effective packaging waste management solutions.

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Intelligent IBP: A Need for Decision Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

Palmatier and Crum (2002), Coldrick, Ling, and Turner (2003) and Bob Stahl (2009) all assert that S&OP is first and foremost an executive decision-making process. Based on their combined experience, decision quality experts Spetzler and colleagues (2016) identified five mega biases that are threats to good organizational decision making.

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Achieving enterprise-wide adoption of supply chain risk management

Resilinc

In the first half of 2020, Resilinc supported its customers in responding proactively to the massive global supply chain disruptions that were occurring. A rigorous and credible ROI analysis is essential to convincing senior leaders to support the change management required to create a mature SCRM capability.

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Top 2016 Supply Chain Strategy Posts from the Supply Chain Link Blog

Arkieva

Just in case you missed some of our supply chain strategy posts , we’ve compiled a list of our popular supply chain posts from 2016 below (ranked based on shares and views). Here is a list of the Top 20 Supply Chain Strategy Blog Posts from 2016. 2006-2009 I did a Ph.D. My Vision for Supply Chain 2020? ’ My Ph.D.