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Insights from Elemica reveal 2014 Frankfurt

Talking Logistics

What do the Germany World Cup Team and the Boston Red Sox have in common? Meanwhile, the Red Sox won the World Series in 2013, going from worst to first in one year — and then back to worst in 2014. BASF’s goals included: Automating the end-to-end Purchase-to-Pay process from purchase requisition to invoice.

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Top 10 Supply Chain and Logistics Trends to Watch in 2016. And Beyond

GlobalTranz

The empowered consumers of today are beginning to expect this option for all of their purchases. We have already seen Amazon move in that direction with their purchase of Colis Prive, rumors of acquiring an airport in Germany, buying up a fleet of 747s and more. Amazon Will Continue to Expand on “Operation Dragon Boat.”.

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Edgar Beers from Vanderlande named as Supply Chain Professional 2015

Supply Chain Movement

Head judge Jack van der Veen (Nyenrode Business University) explained that important selection criteria included authenticity, presentation skills, excellence in one’s own context and the ability to look beyond cultural borders. I spend a lot of time in Germany, but I can’t get much further than basic chit-chat.” Previous winners.

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Supply Chain Management:Leveraging Social Media for Improving.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

For example, imagine if it was possible to predict the percentage of customers that were interested in buying a black colored Reebok T-shirt against a brown colored one or to predict the percentage of customers interested in buying a sportz model of a car versus an another model. Supply Excellence. December 2013.

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ASML considers risks down to ten tiers deep

Supply Chain Movement

The semi-conductor industry is strongly affected by the state of the economy, but 2014 was an excellent year for ASML, manufacturer of systems used to produce integrated circuits or ‘chips’. In 2013 ASML won the VLM Dutch Logistics Award for supply chain leadership, concurrent engineering and aftersales service.

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600 Dead in Bangladesh: Is there a soul to the enterprise?

Supply Chain View from the Field

Some, like Disney and Nike, have announced that they simply won’t buy any apparel produced in Bangladesh. Viewed from the stoic perspective of supply chain excellence, the idea of getting orders completed on time in full is of course familiar to all students of the profession. But is that really the right solution?