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Sustainable Supply Chain Management.

ModusLink Corporation

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. Cardwell, 2014). The purpose of going green is shown in the table. Vishal Gupta, 2013).

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Logipharma 2014

Supply Chain Movement

Logipharma 2014. Date: 07-10 April 2014. The Leading End-To-End Supply Chain Management Event For The Life Science Industry. LogiPharma is the ONLY VP-level, end-to-end supply chain event for life science professionals, focusing on strategic and tactical improvements for Europe & the rest of the world.

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What Is Old Is New Again. Maybe, Just Maybe, the Emperor Is Getting Some Clothes.

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, the multi-tier capabilities for supply chain management are coming from the born-again marketplaces. Instead, they are standalone marketplace offerings solving one of four business problems: supply chain multi-tier visibility, inter-enterprise systems of record, benchmark analytics, and delivering collaborative workflows.

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World Cup in Brazil: Did it make it into your S&OP planning process?

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

The 2014 Football World Cup in Brazil is fast approaching, yes it is football not soccer. You may recall the inventory chaos of the vuvuzelas in team colours at the previous competition in South Africa. As a kid you played “footy” where I grew up and if you said anything like “soccy” you would need to be a fast runner.

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Taking the Hill

Supply Chain Shaman

We believe that supply chain excellence helps a company to better balance demand and supply. We also believe that it helps companies to be more resilient: weathering demand and supply volatility while maximizing opportunities and mitigating risks. What does the future of supply chain excellence look like?”

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MIT Scalers win global final The Fresh Connection

Supply Chain Movement

This year’s challenge was focused on supply chain risk management which had the participants dealing with all types of risk events such as natural disasters, strikes, supplier disruptions, theft, quality issues and high market volatility. South Africa. Outlook to 2014. Teams flew in from all regions of the world.

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How Diversity and Adversity Can Challenge and Grow your Career

BlueYonder

ElMarie shares how moving from South Africa to the U.S. I was born, raised and educated in South Africa in the towns of Cape Town, Bloemfontein and Pretoria. I was a practicing lawyer, before making a career change into supply chain. ElMarie scuba diving off the coast of South Africa.