Supply Chain Shaman
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
Last week, after booking an additional $1B in unexpected supplier costs in the third quarter, the CFO led the company’s focus on restructuring to “support efficient and reliable sourcing of components and internal development of key technologies and capabilities.” COVID impacts also continue. Don’t Be Like Ford.
Talking Logistics
FEBRUARY 24, 2015
Now more so than ever, corporations understand the tremendous impact logistics and transportation can have on their overall business performance and are taking meaningful strides to optimize their supply chain operations. dollars) in 2012 – a 9.9% But it’s not just limited to large corporations. Global 3PL revenues grew to $676.9
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Enterra Insights
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
But then along came the internet in the 1980s, and suddenly distance-related business costs collapsed for transactions, communications, transportation, and search. The web was the ‘death of distance,’ a concept popularized in 1997 by Frances Cairncross’s book of the same title.”[3] He was wrong.
Supply Chain Shaman
NOVEMBER 2, 2018
I consider her the best in the biz for transportation management consulting. Ellen’s was to design and execute the transportation planning logic. in to transportation management to drive routing information and booking optimization). How Do We Connect Supply Chain Planning Architectures to Transportation Planning?
SCM Research
NOVEMBER 1, 2012
As I argue in my new book Logistics Clusters: Delivering Value and Driving Growth (MIT Press, October 2012), these entities have a number of unique, and generally underestimated, attributes. Practice Theory Book Guest Post Network Relationship Supply Chain Management' Thank you for contributing to my blog.
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 19, 2013
Early 2012 marked the end of the third decade and 2013 finds us into the fourth. Today, I spoke at the Chief Supply Chain Officer conference in Chicago at the Eye for Transport event on the results of the research. It will be nice to be home and to have time to write on this second book, Metrics that Matter.
Talking Logistics
JULY 27, 2015
Supply chain management spans many functions and processes, including demand planning, sourcing, merchandising, supplier relationship management, inventory management, inbound and outbound transportation, distribution management, and store operations. Below is an excerpt from the section on Supply Chain Visibility.
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