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Lead Gen for Logistics with Kara Brown

The Logistics of Logistics

Kara was one of the first employees at Echo Global Logistics which grew quickly in three years and her name is on the company’s 2009 IPO press release. Measurement – analytics and analysis delivered executive-ready. Track Who’s Interested – follow prospects from first buying signal through closed deal.

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Social Network Analysis in Supply Chain Management

SCM Research

It is time to take a closer look at Borgatti & Li’s (2009) important article: On Social Network Analysis in a Supply Chain Context. On Social Network Analysis in a Supply Chain Context. ego network, node centrality, structural hole, structural equivalence) to the supply chain context. Borgatti, S.P. & & Li, X.

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Who Should Be In The Winner’s Circle?

Supply Chain Shaman

(When Gartner purchased AMR Research in December 2009, the methodology became the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25. The methodology did not include a peer group analysis, and I strongly felt that chemical, retail, and telecommunications companies should not be compared in the same analysis. The reason?

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The Secret Sauce with Mark McEntire

The Logistics of Logistics

In June 2009, he became certified as an APICS CSCP. To ensure that the Emerge team develop fruitful relationships, Mark insists upon a communication strategy that includes quarterly business reviews (QBR), reporting key performance indicators, root cause analysis, lead-time analytics, cost-down goals, etc. Hunt Transport, Inc.

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Measuring Up?

Supply Chain Shaman

” The journey for value requires a clear definition and analysis of what is possible. The analysis needs to be measured through an evaluation of year-over-year improvements. In our analysis, only one out of ten companies successfully improves operating margins and inventory turns at the same time. The reason? Resiliency.

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Inventory Management: We Can Do Better

Supply Chain Shaman

In Table 1, I share research collected for the Supply Chains to Admire analysis on the average days of inventory by industry across the period of 2004 to 2019 by increments to match economic shifts. The period of 2007-2008 was the downturn of the recession while the period of 2009-2013 marked the recovery. ”).

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What is Economic Order Quantity & its Advantages

SCMDOJO

While Total Landing Cost (TLC) includes other types of costs like; transporting, storage, risk, delivery, and quality, and the more complicated analysis, the Total cost of ownership (TCO) , includes the TLC, in addition to the ongoing lifetime, operating, durability, end-life disposal cost, …etc. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2009.