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Carter’s: A Story of Supply Chain Leadership

Supply Chain Shaman

To drive global scale, companies need to design the supply chain to buy globally and execute locally. Shipping approximately 400 million selling units consisting of 700 million manufactured units per year, Carter’s employs about 4,000 employees at its peak. Not many companies have cracked this code. Managing complexity is key.

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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. Popular Beliefs on Supply Chain Excellence Do Not Align With Results. . Overall, the industry is not aligned with the definition of supply chain excellence. Launching The Supply Chains to Admire Methodology.

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Visibility in Transportation Management Leads to Supply Chain Excellence

Talking Logistics

Or how about if you need capacity for a shipment – broadcast it across the social media outlets and you are likely to find space for your products to ship. Access to data in single system eliminates data gathering and streamlines analysis. Did they meet the customer delivery requirements?

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Transforming Consumer Value Chains: Navigating The Power Shift to the Shopper

Supply Chain Shaman

For December 2015, retail sales were the lowest since 2009. Customers are buying less. The days of going to a brick and mortar store to buy product is only one of the ways that people want to buy. Traditional supply chains ship cases, pallets and trucks; but not the EACH. What does this mean? Disintermediation.

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Executing Customer-Centric Supply Chain Strategies

Supply Chain Shaman

The Company was my client for many years at AMR Research, and when I look at Mark’s slides for the webinar, I see many of the elements that we heatedly debated in the period of 2009-2010. In Agrosciences is the customer the distributor of seed/additives, the farmer or the downstream purchaser of food products? It is not an easy answer.

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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. It took us three years to right the ship. Point of sale data needed to drive all processes.

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Why Logistics and Transportation Should Digitize

3rdwave

The more granular and comprehensive the data captured in digital format, the higher the fidelity and resolution of the picture presented through digitization. However, digitization really became mainstream around 2009 when there were officially more “things” than people connected to the internet. Why should Logistics care?