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What are Reverse Logistics?

Logistics Bureau

Note that this may require extra training for people who will do the sorting. Unfortunately, it did not exercise the same skill and transparency in recalling its Motrin product in 2009, to the extent that congressional investigators became involved to find out what was going on. Who will do Reverse Logistics well in the future?

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How GenAI is Transforming Manufacturing for Greater Efficiency

Jaggaer

Business confidence has seen huge swings with fewer businesses expressing an intention to increase capital spending than at any time since the financial crisis of 2009 — with the brief exception of the peak inflation of 2023. So wrote Industry Week recently, citing several influential surveys and commentators.

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Measuring Up?

Supply Chain Shaman

The analysis is for two time periods: 2006-2015 and 2009-2015. When not writing or running her company, Lora is training for a triathlon, taking classes for her DBA degree in research, knitting and quilting for her new granddaughter, and doing tendu (s) and Dégagé (s) to dome her feet for pointe work at the ballet barre. Resiliency.

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New Bookends: The Tale of Supply Chain Global Leaders in Consumer Products

Supply Chain Shaman

In the selection of time frames to analyze, we look at the long-term view including the recessionary period of 2006-2009, the post recessionary period of 2009-2014 and the more recent time period of 2011-2014. In the period of 2008-2009, both supply chains made some major shifts. It is a strong downward trend.

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Pretty Is as Pretty Does?

Supply Chain Shaman

To compare, in 2009, shortly after the release of the Wal-Mart scorecards, in a similar study, it was 39%. Product marketing teams often turn over quickly, so there needs to be training and alignment on packaging artwork management and global sustainability initiatives to make the reduction of waste an ongoing reality.

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Don’t Perpetuate the Hoax of the Gartner Top 25

Supply Chain Shaman

The report series analyzes relative performance of companies against a balanced portfolio of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) for three-time periods 2006-2014, 2009-2014, and 2011-2014. The analysis evaluates relative performance against industry averages and gauges supply chain improvement.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 9-13, 2015)

Talking Logistics

business inventories flat, inventory-to-sales ratio highest since 2009 (Reuters). Rail industry pushes White House to ease oil train safety rules (Reuters). A potential red flag, however, is that the inventory-to-sales ratio has reached the highest level since 2009. percent, the biggest decline since March 2009, after falling 1.0