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The Procurement Summit – 17 November 2015

Supply Chain Movement

The Procurement Summit. Date: 17 November 2015. The Procurement Summit provides senior purchasing, sourcing and supply chain executives across the North of England with an unmissable opportunity to keep up-to-date with the latest industry innovations, best practice and new technology solutions.

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Should We Celebrate this Marriage?

Supply Chain Shaman

The software planning footprints are reminiscent of the work done in the 1990s when we struggled with insufficient memory using 32-bit hardware. There is no solution to optimize source, make and deliver together or drive bidirectional orchestration to execute trade-offs between functions automatically. Not much has changed.

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What I Learned at the CSCMP Annual Global Conference 2014

Talking Logistics

Every problem or challenge companies face creates an opportunity to demonstrate leadership, an opportunity to innovate and develop new solutions, an opportunity to explore new areas of research, and an opportunity to disrupt the status quo. What did I learn from those conversations?

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Give New Answers to Bridget

Supply Chain Shaman

The traditional tools and approaches are not up to the task. Educate all business leaders on the causality between demand latency and cost/waste. Educate all business leaders on the causality between demand latency and cost/waste. Push for new Solutions. Let’s make 2015 a great year! It is MUDA.

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Business Intelligence in the Digital Age

Enterra Insights

Gartner defines the term this way: “Business intelligence is an umbrella term that includes the applications, infrastructure and tools, and best practices that enable access to and analysis of information to improve and optimize decisions and performance.”[1] Educate and empower your team to be data-driven. ” 4.

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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 The company sold on Amazon, operated its own website, managed outlet stores, and could purchase end-aisle displays in major retail chains. Historically, the design of the data model drove software market positioning. Early solutions were not scalable.).

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Supply Chain’s Next Decade of Dealing With the Unknown

MIT Supply Chain

In my 2014 piece, I argued that educators need to play a role here and pointed to the planned launch in 2015 of the groundbreaking MITx MicroMasters® Program in Supply Chain Management online program as an example of what educators can contribute.