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Training for the Next Triathlon. Insights for You?

Supply Chain Shaman

This landed me in an intense discussion with my trainer and my doctor about blood flow into the brain through endurance training, and how that might reduce the risk of me getting Alzheimer’s. I started training six hours a week and lost 37 pounds. When I first started training, I got as stiff as a board. It is hard.

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Pretty Is as Pretty Does?

Supply Chain Shaman

The package and the process of package development is a major source of corporate waste. It is a major supply chain constraint, and the source of many product recalls. To compare, in 2009, shortly after the release of the Wal-Mart scorecards, in a similar study, it was 39%. Training and process discipline is key.

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Inflation is Back Up – Are you Ready?

Herlitz Inventory Management

source: tradingeconomics.com. Since 2009, when Herlitz Inventory Management was founded, annual inflation has been below 3 percent in the US. We encourage all our customers to schedule a refresher on Forward Buying training, and for anyone else who is interested to give us a call to learn more. source: thebalance.com.

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Data Privacy Day 2024

Enterra Insights

In 2009, the United States House of Representatives officially recognized National Data Privacy Day. He explains, “[With the emergence of] large language models (LLMs) and the enormous datasets being collected, curated and expanded for training those models are opening another view of personally identifiable activity.

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My Lessons in Interviewing Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

They are the only company I know of that trained marketing and sales teams on supply chain constraints and segmentations as it ties to product lifecycle management. They used the work built together in 2004-2009 to build a course with Georgia Tech for executive training.) Smaller Companies Outperform Larger Companies.

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100+ Supply Chain Crisis Statistics: Raw Materials, Covid-19, Labor Shortages, and More

ToolsGroup

28% of global retailers have tried to find alternative sourcing options due to supply chain issues (RetailNext, 2020). Source: Consultancy.UK. Image source: Fortune. As some component lead times push into 2023, the shortage is expected to last 24 months before it recedes – similar to the chip shortage of 2008-2009.

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Coronavirus Increases Supply Chain Risk Management Priority

Enterra Insights

Van Hull notes, “Shortly after Dr. Osterholm’s article, in May 2006, AMR Research (acquired by Gartner in 2009) published Supply Chain Saves the World with a chapter dedicated entirely to preparing for pandemics. During a pandemic the ability to shift to alternative sources could prove crucial. ” Additional actions.