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Welcome 2019

Supply Chain Shaman

The teams in these seats did not experience the down market in 2007 or the start of the market run in 2009. Examples include allocation, available-to-Promise, and transportation routing. The combination of technologies for track and trace (an example is ThinkIQ), 3D printing, robotics, and wearables improves flexibility in operations.

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Offering Prayers While Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2008-2009, nine died and hundreds became ill. The investigation into the activity at PCA began in 2009, after the U.S. An example is the work on Performance Based Logistics (PBL). Let me explain why this is important through an example. This confession comes seven years after selling of contaminated food.

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Earth Day spotlight: What it means to be a Benefit Corporation in CPG

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Prashant Dube, COO Good Food for Good B Corp spotlight: Purely Elizabeth While some companies find that their established business practices help them achieve a B Corp certification, other companies like Purely Elizabeth used the B Lab assessment to build the framework for their business in its early days.

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Novo Nordisk: A Story of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

Performance and Improvement within the Pharmaceutical Industry for 2009-2015. Previously I worked at Nestle, and I want to start by recognizing that pharmaceutical companies have different supply chain maturity levels compared to companies in the fast-moving consumer goods industry. We are not as mature as CPG or Food/Beverage.

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Three Lies and a Truth

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2009, the definition of supply chain resiliency was driven by the impact of the Great Recession. As I run these analysis and study value chain after value chain, I cannot find one example where supply chain processes have improved total cost and working capital. I really want to believe. I keep on looking. We hope to see you there!

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Reducing Supply Chain Costs

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Supply chain costs often represent a considerable percentage of the sales price of a good or service. If net profit on sales is 5%, for example, a reduction in supply chain costs from 9% to 4% (or from 12% to 7%) will double net profits. As a general example, slashing transport budgets may result in holding higher levels of inventory.

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VTech: 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. Companies passing these two tests are then analyzed against the performance factors for 2009-2015: Growth. Let me give you a simple example. In my interview, Nick used the bumblebee to describe his journey.