Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 16, 2013

We just finished hosting over 150 executives at our Supply Chain Resource Cooperative, with a theme on Supply Chain Analytics. As 2013 comes to a close, here are some of my thoughts regarding the supply chain trends we are likely to see emerge in 2014. This complexity is occurring in many forms.

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ModusLink Corporation

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Green supply chain history: The origin of Supply Chain Management can be dated back to the early 20th with Henry Ford who vertically integrates the automotive supply chain and organizational practices. Bhattacharjee, 2015). The purpose of going green is shown in the table.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Consumers, activists, and investors increasingly want to know the products they buy are sourced sustainably and ethically. They are demanding more supply chain transparency. What is supply chain transparency? ” You might be thinking, “That sounds like supply chain visibility. .”

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SCM Research

JUNE 24, 2014

In his recent Science article, The Science of Sustainable Supply Chains, Dara argues that the field of supply chain management needs to significantly improve and integrate sustainability measurement systems and decision-support tools. The Science of Sustainable Supply Chains. O’Rourke, D.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 22, 2021

.” The web site goes on to note, “Today, Earth Day is widely recognized as the largest secular observance in the world, marked by more than a billion people every year as a day of action to change human behavior and create global, national and local policy changes. ” But: decarbonizing supply chains is hard.

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In my opinion, these are factors that led to the pollsters being so far off on the 2016 US election, and how supply chain practitioners can help these pollsters to improve. Multi-tasking, I was reading Bill’s blog while I was watching the 2014 movie Godzilla. Balance is also critical for supply chains.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 12, 2020

You’re probably sick (no pun intended) of reading articles about the Covid-19 pandemic and how it has shocked the international economy and stressed global supply chains. Disruptions caused by the pandemic revealed just how brittle some supply chains can be. supply chains.”[2] supply chains.”[2]

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JANUARY 13, 2015

Last year around this time I made a lot of predictions about what 2014 would hold in store…Let’s revisit some of these, and see what has happened (or what hasn’t!) Here are my predictions from 2014, and an update on what I think will happen in these areas. Global supply chain footprints will continue to expand.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

I thought I understood all the major supply chain implications of the pandemic until I began reading Yossi Sheffi’s new book The New (Ab)Normal: Reshaping Business and Supply Chain Strategy beyond Covid-19. The potential supply chain impacts of this conflict dwarf any other supply chain news that might be reported.

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NC State SCRC

MAY 27, 2020

[ii] We observed an intense and immediate response by the Joint Acquisition Task Force to rapidly source supplies and quickly institute a robust vendor risk assessment process. health care system and risks in a supply chain dependent on global sourcing, would buffer the country from unanticipated disruptions.

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Resilinc

APRIL 19, 2022

Not only are these minerals necessary for a wide range of products and industrial processes, they are also essential for a transition to low-carbon energy sources (along with rare earth elements). went from a position of global dominance in REE supplies in the 1990s to heavy dependency on China within 10 years, according to Defense News.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 1, 2015

Transparent supply chain management and effective supply chain visibility is a critical tool in a company’s continued growth and successful brand image. Some companies do not adhere to policy in a country that has little oversight of what many deem proper work conditions. Reevaluating Wages.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2015

Benchmarking is a measurement of the quality of an organization’s policies, products, programs or strategies against standard measurements. In my work with Supply Chain Insights , I immerse myself in learning. I continually question my long-held beliefs on supply chain excellence. . Business Dictionary.com.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

How should shippers be prepared to secure their supply chain operations? History of Alliances in Container Shipping Source: Port Economics, Management and Policy What are Global Shipping Alliances (GSAs) in the shipping industry? Where do we stand today? How alliances in the shipping industry might impact shippers?

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Financial balance sheet improvements cannot be driven by traditional supply chain processes. In the words of a supply chain leader yesterday, “Lora, please give me stories of success. When I first met Nick, he was driving a supply chain transformation at VTech Communications. Price to Tangible Book Value.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

The success of your business links inextricably to the performance of your supply chain. you have to make your supply chain successful too. Supply Chain and Business Success By the Numbers. Conversely, just 8% of businesses with less capable supply chains report above-average growth.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2015

And more companies are treating Supply Chain Design as a continuous business process instead of a standalone project or a once-a-year exercise (see Supply Chain Design: Growing Scope, Community, and Collaboration ). Making supply chain and logistics predictions is like throwing darts at a moving target.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The connective tissue of the circular economy is the supply chain. As MIT academics Alexis Bateman, Eva Ponce, and Inma Borrella, explain, “Circular supply chains are at the heart of efforts to tackle the massive environmental problems created by waste and end-of-life products.”[2]. That’s a tall order. Procurement.

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Elementum

JULY 12, 2016

India is becoming a battleground for market share among smartphone makers — and success will come down to supply chain. Xiaomi entered the Indian market in 2014 and reported a 135-percent sales growth that year. But standing in Xiaomi’s way is India’s mandatory 30 percent local sourcing criteria. Growth Strategy.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Source: Dictionary.com. As supply chain clichés take flight, clients struggle with execution. As supply chain clichés take flight, clients struggle with execution. One of these concepts that I hear a lot; but see few tangible examples, is the idea of “customer-segmented supply chain.”

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Mir Sadat ( @Dr_Sadat_USN ), a former National Security Council Policy Director, observes, “From health care to finance, education to navigating space, agriculture to climate research, and from Hollywood to the Pentagon, innovation has been America’s lifeblood.”[1] Why America needs a tune-up. economy for decades.”

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RFgen

JULY 21, 2016

Keeping abreast of current best practices and innovations allows companies to create more efficient strategies, which is especially important in supply chain management. That’s the aim of the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America annual Sourcing Intelligence Summit. The Ups and Downs of Trade.

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RFgen

JULY 21, 2016

Keeping abreast of current best practices and innovations allows companies to create more efficient strategies, which is especially important in supply chain management. That’s the aim of the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America annual Sourcing Intelligence Summit. The Ups and Downs of Trade.

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ivalua

MARCH 17, 2021

To reduce inefficiencies and fraud, grant activities are governed by several regulations including these two relatively recently enacted laws: The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 (DATA Act) – This law expands on federal awards reporting reforms that began with the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 17, 2015

In May, 2014 Raytheon gathered a group of its largest suppliers in Boston, MA to discuss the launch of the company’s Supplier Advisory Council. This advisory board is to serve as the first step towards a more comprehensive supplier policy and the building block for Raytheon’s new SRM strategy. Connect your supply chain.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Source: Evan, Flikr. “I I will be wrong again,” I stated last year before making my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2017 , and I was right. It echoed the title of my September 2016 post, “ The Day a Cyber Attack Brings the World’s Supply Chains to a Halt.”. Hospitals, Spanish Companies.”

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EcoVadis

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Bill Cooper , Associate Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer at the University of California (UC), spoke about his experiences leading a cross-departmental effort to improve supply chain efficiency and sustainability across 10 UC facilities. trillion); up from 18 percent in 2014.”. San Francisco.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 29, 2015

With this varied inventory, plus a large direct sales force in more than 170 countries and an unpredictable sales cycle, effective supply chain management is critical for continued growth. Using a Service Level Agreement with effective, realistic Supply Chain & Logistics KPIs helped considerably.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 2, 2016

In this week’s Ripped from the Headlines segment, another example of how many companies still have poor visibility and control of their end-to-end supply chains. As I’ve said many times before, there is no silver bullet for supply chain visibility.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 21, 2017

Now, moving on to this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Amazon won a patent for an on-demand clothing manufacturing warehouse (Recode). JDA Unleashes New Levels of Supply Chain Visibility Across its Portfolio with TransVoyant. Source: Amazon patent. So all is good in my little slice of the world.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 5, 2015

supply chain. economic and innovation policies.” Launched – 2/25/2014. The new state-of-the-art facility for digital manufacturing and design will develop and innovate the manufacturing tools and processes needed to streamline and maintain a networked supply chain. Launched – 1/24/2014.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

” Analysts from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) add, “Over the past decade, public and private sources have dedicated impressive amounts of energy and resources to digital agriculture in developing countries.”[2] ” In Part 1 of this article, I discussed some of the background involved in the Farming 4.0 movement.

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 22, 2023

We will decide and response faster in our supply chain and make higher quality operational and strategic decisions. I believe that soon enough it will become a must to provide new roles to young graduates for them to be interested in working in supply chain. These new operating models can create significant benefits.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2016

This is not only true for financial investments, but also for supply chain and logistics predictions. Like I said last year, making supply chain and logistics predictions is like throwing darts at a moving target: sometimes you get lucky and hit the mark; other times you miss the bullseye by a mile.

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 4, 2017

Over the last two decades, increased competition and a globalized economy has led firms to deploy outsourced manufacturing and captive offshore policies across multiple industries. This supply chain design has increased the risk of contamination or substitution of active ingredients, as in the case of the 2008 heparin incident [1].

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RFgen

AUGUST 14, 2017

If counterfeit electronic parts make it through the supply chain and into a mission-critical military asset, the potential for a worst-case scenario increases. In 2014, Massachusetts resident Pierre Picone pleaded guilty to selling counterfeit integrated circuits (IC) to the U.S. Navy over the course of 5 years.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

This was a busy week for supply chain and logistics news, so let’s go straight to it. XPO Logistics Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2014 Results. For related commentary, see Do You Have a “Top 25” Supply Chain? Kintetsu to Buy Neptune’s APL Logistics for $1.2 Billion ( BloombergBusiness ).

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