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Supply Chain Performance Declined In the Last Decade. The Question is Why?

Supply Chain Shaman

Average performance in 2016-2019 across twenty-seven manufacturing sectors on inventory turns, Return on Invested Capital and operating margin was worse than in 2012-2015. The myopic focus on IT standardization resulted in the purchase of technology, but not value delivery. Belief in efficient procurement. Alignment Barriers.

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Save The Supply Chain Leader From Groupthink

Supply Chain Shaman

When it comes to inventory and driving improvement in the face of variability, there are five issues: Poorly Implemented Advanced Planning Solutions. IBM, in contrast, purchased over fifteen supply chain acquisitions but drove little innovation. Software mergers & acquisitions also slowed innovation. What went wrong?

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Faceless AI Will Not Relegate the Social Side of Business to the Past

MIT Supply Chain

As Lynn Torrel, chief procurement and supply chain officer at Flex, explained the company’s operations during the Covid-19 pandemic, “We’ve had a few escalation calls with suppliers, and you get on a call, and there are critical needs. It helps in negotiating a solution and obtaining mutual commitments to action.

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Christmas and the Poinsettia Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

While there, he failed in an attempt to purchase Texas and became a persona non grata for meddling in the country’s internal affairs. After slowly watching its monopoly decline, Ecke — the one-time king of poinsettias — sold its business to a Dutch conglomerate in 2012. Then, along came Joel Poinsett. had phytosanitary regulations.

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How Capital City eliminated duplicate payments with procurement automation

Precoro

The school's success is evident in its remarkable track record of achieving a 100% acceptance rate to college for all its graduating seniors since the first senior class in 2012. With over 1,000 students, the school purchases a lot of supplies for students as well as office supplies for the administration.

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How is AI Revolutionizing Supply Chain Risk Management? 

Resilinc

Shahzaib: We were the first company in 2011-2012 to create a supply chain disruption alert system ( EventWatch AI ) that could monitor time-sensitive global events for faster response and mitigation of supply chain disruptions, 24/7, from over 104 million sources in 108 languages. Then, it provides a future delay prediction on active POs.

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6 Manufacturing Trends You Need to Know

Arena Solutions

Since the start of 2012, more people graduating from college and universities are entering the engineering/manufacturing fields. alone, colleges and universities awarded 83,263 bachelor’s degrees in engineering in 2012, a 37% increase over the 60,605 degrees conferred in 2002. Breaking it down In the U.S.