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What to Expect When You’re Expecting Supply Chain Disruptions

QAD

In the United States for example, many companies have been considering – and some already taken – strategies like near-shoring and reshoring. How will you make sure that unused returns go back into inventory instead of being scrapped? However, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

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Unilever and Colgate: Two Bookends?

Supply Chain Shaman

If the definition is the balancing of costs and inventory, the winner is Colgate. Unilever is at the bottom of the list in driving performance improvements in productivity, cost, margin, inventory performance, and growth. In 2011, Colgate had revenues of $16.7 In contrast, in 2011, Unilever had revenues of $64.6

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Ford Motor’s Warning of Added $1 Billion in Supply Chain Costs- Another Signal

Supply Chain Matters

Implied is that these vehicles will remain as factory inventory until needed components arrive and customer or dealer orders can then be fulfilled. The Ford warning caused the company’s stock to fall 12 percent, the biggest one-day loss since 2011. Once more, these shortages reportedly involve higher margin trucks and SUV ’s.

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Toyota and USPS See Opportunities for Blockchain Technology in Supply Chain Management

Talking Logistics

Imagine a bitcoin being a unit of inventory and a digital wallet (“bitcoin address”) being an inventory-keeping location, such as a store, distribution center, or truck trailer. As I wrote at the time in Bitcoin: A New Supply Chain Operating System? Toyota temporarily shut two factories in the aftermath.

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The Value of Refrigerated Transport!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Consequently, you can minimize inventory costs and capital expenditure (CAPEX) since you won’t need storage for products. In the United States, for example, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2011 requires that all foods transported in interstate commerce be transported under refrigeration or frozen conditions.

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Whitman School Collaborates with Staples to Analyze Supply Chain Management Opportunities Sparking Millennial Interest

GlobalTranz

In the first project, Whitman faculty and students will analyze fulfillment operations and make recommendations regarding how Staples can further improve its inventory and distribution decisions. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence and associate professor of supply chain.

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The Evolution of the Direct-to-Consumer Supply Chain

Talking Logistics

Manufacturers and CPG companies looking to employ (and scale) DTC will have to start thinking about inventory holding locations that can service customers directly without a retailer (and its network) or find another channel to ultimately service that end user, such as Amazon or Wayfair.