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7 Mini Case Studies: Successful Supply Chain Cost Reduction and Management

Logistics Bureau

In 2014, Deere & Company was listed 80th in the Fortune 500 America’s ranking and was 307th in the 2013 Fortune Global 500 ranking. The company was replenishing dealers’ inventory weekly, using direct shipment and cross-docking operations from source warehouses located near Deere & Company’s manufacturing facilities.

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What You Missed at the Gartner Supply Chain Planning Summit

ToolsGroup

Sometimes it’s tough to look at planning practices through a different lens when concepts like S&OP have been around for over 40 years and little seems to have changed. This wasn’t “digital for the sake of digital”, but to support a very specific business KPI. We know the next downturn is somewhere on the horizon.

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