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Resilience and Agility in Supply Chains: Navigating Change in a Dynamic World

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

For instance, during the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Toyota’s robust supply chain resilience allowed it to quickly recover and restore operations. These technologies have the potential to automate processes, improve forecasting accuracy, optimize inventory management, and enhance decision-making capabilities.

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The Evolution of the Direct-to-Consumer Supply Chain

Talking Logistics

Now consumers can compare products from multiple manufacturers and/or retailers in order to find best product at the best price – all from the comfort of their own home – and then have it delivered within days or even hours. The question is: how will this impact retailers and manufacturers? Transforming the Retail Supply Chain.

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The Current State of Bottleneck Management and What Companies Need to Do to Improve

ThroughPut

Inventory as a liability and not an asset was a big epiphany for impacting cash flows. This was as true as in hydraulic fracturing in 2011 as it was in managing telecommunications finished goods inventories in 2019. Not Silicon Valley disruption. True physical disruption. Bottlenecks? We used technology to frac’em.

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What Entrepreneur Media Wouldn’t Publish about ThroughPut: Why Industrial Operations Bottleneck Elimination is the World’s Greatest Mission

ThroughPut

Inventory as a liability and not an asset was a big epiphany for impacting cash flows. This was as true as in hydraulic fracturing in 2011 as it was in managing telecommunications finished goods inventories in 2019. Not Silicon Valley disruption. True physical disruption. Bottlenecks? We used technology to frac’em.

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VTech: A Story of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

I followed his journey during the period of 2006-2011, and wanted to check in with him to gain his insights on the selection of VTech as a finalist in the Supply Chains to Admire research. Inventory Turns. Better performance in inventory turns than the peer group average for the period studied. Operating Margin. About VTech.

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Why a Product-Centric Approach to Quality Matters

Arena Solutions

Angenette has more than 24 years of experience in quality assurance, quality control, Lean Six Sigma, and supply chain. This is where good specifications, good records, good documentations, manufacturable designs, all are needed and come into place. And then the final tip I would say is right-size your manufacturing partner.

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TOC for Electric Utility industry.Part 1 - Infosys Blogs

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Industrial Manufacturing. The objective of all other improvement initiatives like TPM, RCM, Lean or even Six Sigma is to improve your system efficiency thereby increasing the throughput. December 2011. November 2011. October 2011. September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011.