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Global Production Activity Levels Unchanged In May But Provide Added Warning Signs

Supply Chain Matters

While global supply chain wide pressures have eased considerably, the data points to a number of warning signs that would suggest added contraction in the months to come. Global Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. in April to 58.7 value in April to 58.2 value in April.

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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. Manufacturers are Now Selling Directly to Consumers. This week, many of my friends will gather in New York for NRF. Retailers can no longer have their heads in the sand, but neither can consumer products manufacturers. What does this mean? The difference?

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Redesign to Improve Value: A Case Study of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

The strength of your decisions is directly dependent on having accurate data going in. We produce there because the regulations say that you need to manufacture there to sell there. Collecting the data is not easy. I suspect that many companies have great capabilities to get data, but we did not. Go slow and be clear.

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Starbucks Appoints New Supply Chain Chief

RFgen

The Executive VP of Global Supply Chain Operations from 2008 to 2012, Gibbons’ work to get data collection solutions took the complex supply chain structure and simplified it to fall under four basic supply chain functions: plan, source, make, deliver. Plant in Columbia, South Carolina in 2009.

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Starbucks Appoints New Supply Chain Chief

RFgen

The Executive VP of Global Supply Chain Operations from 2008 to 2012, Gibbons’ work to get data collection solutions took the complex supply chain structure and simplified it to fall under four basic supply chain functions: plan, source, make, deliver. Plant in Columbia, South Carolina in 2009.

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Can you WFH & Walk?

NC State SCRC

I often found myself in windowless rooms, basements or chilly server rooms wrangling data or writing code. Once Mulally brought divisional leaders together to a conference room to look at a pile of hood prop rods for the various cars and trucks that Ford manufactures. The prop rods all looked different. The post Can you WFH & Walk?

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How Freight Disrupted Itself: The View From Within A Changing Industry

Freightos

And until recently, he was an archtypical “insider”, an executive at one of the world’s largest and most respected forwarders, DB Schenker, where he was responsible for the New York market. For forwarders, just as the 2009 financial crisis ended, another crisis began. Then, in November 2015, Phil joined Freightos.

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