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Good Times Can Be Dangerous to Supply Chain Operations

Logility

A consequence of long periods of economic growth, like the one we just had from June 2009 until March 2020, is that many members of the supply chain team have only experienced managing a supply chain during growth. A renewed effort is needed to get closer to true consumer demand to minimize the supply chain ‘whiplash’ effect.

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My Quest to Build Holistic Thinking

Supply Chain Shaman

In the 1990s, I transitioned from managing an emerging supply chain organization at a mid-sized manufacturing company to working for a supply chain planning company. ” I quickly learned that the goal was project implementation: a race to tightly integrate sales information to drive demand planning. I listened.

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My Quest to Build Holistic Thinking

Supply Chain Shaman

In the 1990s, I transitioned from managing an emerging supply chain organization at a mid-sized manufacturing company to working for a supply chain planning company. ” I quickly learned that the goal was project implementation: a race to tightly integrate sales information to drive demand planning. I listened.

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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. Today the Company’s core businesses are cordless phones, contract manufacturing services and children learning products.

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How Can We Heal the Global Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Shaman

The traditional manufacturing job defined the middle class. Each time, I turn on the channel, manufacturing jobs frame the global debate. Ironically, as global manufacturing jobs decrease, there is a need for talent for the global supply chain. Corporate report data is not readily available before 2006. 4) Governance.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 22-26, 2013)

Talking Logistics

Infor Simplifies Supply Chain Demand Planning. On the technology front, Oracle introduced this week Oracle In- Memory Logistics Command Center , which provides “the means to perform rapid simulations and what-if analyses of your logistics network using real-world operational data, rules and constraints.”

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Supply Chain Management:Leveraging Social Media for Improving.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Industrial Manufacturing. Cloud & Big Data. One of the greatest challenges that complex supply chains of the companies today face are accurate forecasting and demand planning. Social media helps in bringing real time data in terms of the percentage likes or dislikes posted by users of a social media site.