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Defining Your Own Logistics Competitive Weapon

Talking Logistics

Source: “Tech in Asia” – https://www.techinasia.com. You have to think and act beyond cost manage and find ways to leverage supply chain and logistics as a competitive weapon — that is, look for ways to leverage supply chain management to drive top-line growth, increase market share, and enhance customer loyalty.

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Welcome Puff, The Magic Dragon, to Your Team

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2015, I worked with a manufacturer of men’s underwear. (My These included cloud-based computing, in-memory processing, parallel computation, and open-source analytics. Open Source Analytics: A set of languages, techniques and tactics to enable parallel processing, schema on read, and data insights. Open Source analytics.

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Addressing UN Sustainable Development Goal 5: Steps to Promote Gender Equality in the Supply Chain

EcoVadis

In 2015, the world got one step closer to a better future when 193 countries committed to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a framework for addressing the global community’s most critical economic, social and environmental challenges. Increase transparency with better metrics and reporting. Educate and train suppliers.

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Business Intelligence in the Digital Age

Enterra Insights

It involves collecting and often processing large volumes of data, whether it be through your own internal metrics or third-party resources. The software involved allows companies to analyze information from multiple sources to find trends. Educate and empower your team to be data-driven. Don’t expect to see benefits overnight.

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Doing Business in Belgium

QAD

36 percent of Belgium’s energy consumption comes from renewable sources, making it the eighth country in the world for renewable energy production. billion metric tons of goods in 2015. Despite a highly educated workforce, unemployment in Belgium runs at just over seven percent. percent while Wallonia has a rate of 9.9

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Supply Chain Talent: Insights from CSCMP Annual Conference

Talking Logistics

Erin Nicole Gordon (@erinicolegordon) September 30, 2015. We also need to focus our efforts with students even earlier in their education, perhaps more outreach efforts to high school students. CSCMP2015 #supplychain pic.twitter.com/yxQUOTud04. Making Supply Chain the Industry of Choice for Top Talent (Angie Freeman).

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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #1

Supply Chain Trend

My S&OP Pulse Check 2015 suggests S&OP practitioners are left behind in confusion: 62% of respondents think there is not enough innovation in S&OP systems. Also, building in S&OP process metrics, not just business operating metrics is critical to success. 71% think we need more industry standards around S&OP.

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