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Supply Chain Power 50: Best Supply Chain Blogs of 2014

Supply Chain Opz

Then, blogging and web contents have become the primary source of business ideas for many working professionals. Please drop us a line to bloggeradmin [at] supplychainopz [dot] com with the subject " Blog Nomination " by the end of March 2014. Blogging also allows both business people and educators to reflect and stimulate opinions.

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Building on the Real-Time Visibility Foundation to Eliminate Silos and Achieve Huge Leaps in Efficiency – Use Case by Use Case

Logistics Viewpoints

Rob is Group Director, Planning & Logistics at Coca-Cola North America. Now, the shipper can source additional product from an alternate distribution center and take any other real-time actions necessary to make the delivery — on time, and in full. Matt Elenjickal is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of FourKites.

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Ocean Risk Management part 2: Navigating Global Shipping Alliance

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

History of Alliances in Container Shipping Source: Port Economics, Management and Policy What are Global Shipping Alliances (GSAs) in the shipping industry? The alliance was formed in 2014 and covers major shipping routes between Asia, Europe, and North America. The 2M alliance will be disbanded in 2025.

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Data Quality: Your Digital Transformation Depends on It

Logistics Viewpoints

When you’re ingesting and synthesizing data from dozens or hundreds or millions of sources (as most sophisticated platforms do nowadays), you will see duplicated records, incomplete fields, formatting inconsistencies, different languages, different units of measurement. And better data science leads to better business outcomes for customers.

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How Pure Storage Withstood the Pandemic

Logistics Viewpoints

In 2014, the company’s revenues were $43 million. Dual sourcing has also helped with partner responsiveness. Pure Storage reduced their dependency on sourcing from the Far East. They moved their core sourcing location for core subassemblies to the US and Mexico. 70% of Pure Storage’s business is in North America.

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Better Inventory Management Requires International Suppliers To Step Up to Digital Transformation and Collaboration

Logistics Viewpoints

By integrating order data, load information across modes, yard shipments and the like, internal departments can turn to a single source of the truth and more accurately manage various aspects of the lifecycle. Matt Elenjickal is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of FourKites.

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From Real-Time Visibility to Real-Time Decisions: Data’s Value Is Propagating Across Global Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

The paradigm is shifting from foundational visibility to real-time decision-making, with positive implications for supply chain teams spanning sourcing & procurement, to production, to yard & DC operations and beyond. Why is this shift such a big deal? We don’t have to think back very far.