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My Vision for Supply Chain 2020? Deep Integration!

Arkieva

The question was how I imagine the Supply Chain in 2020. The financial crisis of 2008-2009 has given a major push to do more with less. We’ll need to show sales people how true demand shaping can help hitting targets while improving margins. This will ensure we keep moving to the next level as we’re marching to 2020.

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Inflation is Back Up – Are you Ready?

Herlitz Inventory Management

How to Remain Profitable During Periods of High Inflation with Forward Buying. Anders Herlitz used to lecture on how to buy forward profitably and how to negotiate with vendors for win-win deals. Have we lost the knowledge of how to be profitable during periods of high inflation? Dinner Conversations at the Herlitz House.

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Strategic Procurement: 4 Tactics for Economic Recovery in 2021

ivalua

In August 2020 Gartner published this report “4 Tactics Procurement Can Use to Sustain Influence as Economic Conditions Improve” This blog summarizes the key points of the report which you can read in full, here. Teach staff how to track changing business priorities. Procurement Teams Step-up.

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Understanding the Bitcoin Mining Process!

Supply Chain Game Changer

As of 2020, there are around 18.5 The first-ever bitcoin was mined in 2009, and after 2009, the mining process has skyrocketed. How to mine on a budget? A mysterious entity created it under the name Satoshi Nakamoto. He created only a limited supply of bitcoin, i.e., there are only 21 million bitcoins.

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How the Semiconductor Shortage Could Have Been Averted

QAD

The origin of this most recent semiconductor shortage began in early 2020 as automotive assembly plants and the supply chain shut down due to COVID-19. Very similar to the crisis in 2008-2009 and much to the surprise of industry analysts, automotive demand came back much quicker than expected. In addition to 6.2.1.7,

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Coronavirus Increases Supply Chain Risk Management Priority

Enterra Insights

Van Hull notes, “Shortly after Dr. Osterholm’s article, in May 2006, AMR Research (acquired by Gartner in 2009) published Supply Chain Saves the World with a chapter dedicated entirely to preparing for pandemics. 2] Patrick Van Hull, “ Now is the time to redefine supply chain resiliency ,” Kinaxis Blog , 28 April 2020. [3]

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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. Comfort zone : the tendency to drag a problem into our comfort zone and solve the problem that we know how to solve, rather than the problem that needs to be solved.