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Don’t Perpetuate the Hoax of the Gartner Top 25

Supply Chain Shaman

Every year we identify the companies that best exemplify the demand-driven ideal for today’s supply chain and document their best practices, which can help all companies move closer to their demand-driven goals.” Supply chain leaders manage a complex system of non-linear, but very inter-connected metrics. It is a HOAX.

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The Better Goal: More Fuel Efficient Trucks or Using Fewer Trucks?

Talking Logistics

According to the press release : The proposed standards are expected to lower CO2 emissions by approximately 1 billion metric tons, cut fuel costs by about $170 billion, and reduce oil consumption by up to 1.8 billion barrels over the lifetime of the vehicles sold under the program. I’ve highlighted other case studies over the years.

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Supply Chain Scope: New Study Shows Rise in US Inventories; California Estimated to Improve Freight Efficiency by 25% in 2030

Arkieva

Changes have also been made throughout the document to clarify and emphasize the collaboration between the responsible agencies and other regional planning efforts, including funding.”. In 2011 Japan’s earthquake and tsunami amidst the loss of lives brought many worldwide production plants in Japan to a standstill. Read Full Article.

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Infor’s Acquistion of GT Nexus: If I Had a Magic Wand

Supply Chain Shaman

The largest was the purchase of Lawson in 2011 for 2B$. The traditional EDI approach inserts a day latency to open and read documents. Unstructured data types like geospatial maps, weather patterns, digital images, warranty information, call-center logs, quality reports and contract document information are not used today.

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Why we need S&OP Vision, Culture, and Language

Supply Chain Trend

What Do You Mean “Document Assumptions”? When It Comes to Metrics for S&OP, “One Size Fits All.”. In his experiments on cooperative behaviour, Yochai Benkler (2011) found that 30% of people behave as though they are selfish. Laziness Is a Virtue (?!): Adam Grant (2013) divides people into givers, takers, and matchers.

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Summary of Development and Manufacture Contracts in the Aerospace and Defense Industries

NC State SCRC

The contract may also include metrics and resulting consequences (late fees, etc.). And at the end of development and qualification (airworthiness), a complete compliance package is assembled, based on the compliance matrix, but details the documentation where the supporting analysis/test results/etc. Description. are located.

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Demand-Driven Transformation at Shell

Supply Chain Shaman

Completed in 2012, the ERP project forced the company to standardize organizational design, roles, and metrics. In 2010-2011 Shell partnered with Terra Technology to roll-out demand sensing as a bolt-on to the SAP environment. They saw a steady drop in inventory and reduced working capital by about 50% over the period of 2011-2015.