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Stories of Supply Chain Leadership: An Interview with Joan Motsinger of Seagate

Supply Chain Shaman

In our work on the Supply Chains to Admire report , we tracked the progress of manufacturing, retailing and distribution companies for the period of 2006 to 2013 and 2009-2013. We then rated companies on their ability to manage and improve a portfolio of metrics: operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC).

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Guest Post: Ignoring this Performance Metric is Risky

TMC

The raw data flows to Walgreens’ Centralized Security Operations Center. In 2009, the United States boosted import duties on Chinese tires from 4% to 35%, and did so with only 15 days’ notice. The post Guest Post: Ignoring this Performance Metric is Risky appeared first on Connect Blog by TMC, a division of C.H.

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Offering Prayers While Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, the word security has a different meaning. Unfortunately, we live in a world where the need for security for a Papal visit turns a city upside down. The pope comes in peace; but to prepare, we are in a high-security lock down mode. Rethinking Safe and Secure. In 2008-2009, nine died and hundreds became ill.

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Where have all the Truckers Gone? 10 Strategies for Shippers to Fight the Capacity and Trucker Shortage

GlobalTranz

2009 was an exception due to the 2008–2009 recession.) Many customers who grappled with the 2014 situation , are now strategizing to head off the future issues by securing resources in advance, establishing longer-term agreements with carriers. Shippers should budget and price accordingly.

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Winning strategies for distributors and manufacturers during an economic downturn

EazyStock

What the last recession taught us An article from McKinsey & Company (2022) analyzed the performance of about 40 publicly traded distribution companies during the 2007-2009 recession. These can improve picking accuracy, inventory flexibility, security, and customer service.

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Supply Chain Management:Rapid Innovation will Differentiate the.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

In our March commentary, the takeaway was that these rapidly changing retailer business models imply that organizations can no longer assume the same organizational structures of accountability where marketing and supply chain teams supporting physical stores and online fulfillment reside in separate organizational entities with conflicting metrics.

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Nine Myths of S&OP Technology Selection

Supply Chain Shaman

When I wrote a summary report at AMR Research in 2007 and 2009, there were two or 6% of the market. In these larger organizations, as shown in Figure 1, the needs for integration, collaboration, and role-based security are high. For the Love of the Cloud. Only three vendors on the technology list do not offer a cloud-enabled service.

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