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Another Asian Trip and Added Apple Sourcing Options

Supply Chain Matters

According to a published report from global news site CNN , the consumer electronics icon has invested upwards of $16 billion in production sourcing since 2009, with the equivalent of fostering more than 200,000 jobs. Apple has been a master at exercising many such strategies.

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Data Privacy Day 2024

Enterra Insights

In 2009, the United States House of Representatives officially recognized National Data Privacy Day. That is: exercise restraint with analytics and machine learning, to be transparent about their business models, to offer consumers a fair and transparent trade for data about them, and to innovate in privacy as well as data mining.

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Strategic Procurement: 4 Tactics for Economic Recovery in 2021

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For instance, during the great recession of 2009, 85% of Chief Procurement Officers reported they had more influence than prior to the crisis, but by 2013, that influence waned significantly for two-thirds of those leaders. Gartner recommends that for best results, the process should become a standard operating procedure.

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Treading Water

Supply Chain Shaman

Only 12% of public companies are making improvement during the period of 2009-2015 in both operating margin and inventory despite spending an average of 1.7% of revenues on Information Technology (IT).

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5 Top Online Courses For Financial Modeling!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Udemy was created in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California. It is jam-packed with quizzes, exercises, understandable demos, and case studies based on real-world circumstances. Despite the disadvantages, you will master the fundamentals of financial modeling for free. These priced courses are usually approximately $99.

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Is Your Supply Chain Ready for the Recession?

Enterra Insights

Arntzen, the former executive director of the supply chain management program at MIT, recently republished an article he penned 2009, during the Great Recession. This year’s fall in output would be far more severe than the last recession, when the world economy contracted by less than 1 percent between 2008 and 2009.”

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Google Will Acquire a 3PL – And Other Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2015

Talking Logistics

Brent crude oil prices Dec 2009 – Dec 2014 (Source MoneyAM.com). Simply put, I admit upfront that my supply chain and logistics predictions below are biased and flawed, but I make them anyway because it’s a fun exercise, and also because I hope it generates some thoughtful conversations and ideas.