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Happy New Year! What’s In Store for Supply Chains?

Enterra Insights

Changing Use of Labor Management Tools “Historically,” McCrea writes, “labor management systems (LMS) have been used to track employee time and attendance; manage schedules and payroll; comply with labor laws; and monitor workforce metrics like productivity, absenteeism and turnover.” Only for turkeys.”

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Championing Supply Chain Digitalization

Enterra Insights

The winning companies are those that correctly identify the problem to solve — the performance metric to improve. Only for turkeys. ” Mankins and Lori Sherer, “ Creating value through advanced analytics ,” Bain Brief, 11 February 2015. [7] He explains, “Too often companies think that more data is better. 6] Michael C.

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The Supply Chain Impact of Europe’s Refugee Crisis

Kinaxis

Unfortunately, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, its income in 2015 will be 10% less than in 2014. CHEP will complete the study by late 2015 and present its findings and recommendations to UNHCR shortly thereafter. Need is clearly skyrocketing. Funding is lacking.

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Demand-Driven Transformation at Shell

Supply Chain Shaman

Completed in 2012, the ERP project forced the company to standardize organizational design, roles, and metrics. They saw a steady drop in inventory and reduced working capital by about 50% over the period of 2011-2015. Shell operates as a single-instance of SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). The reason?

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Throwback Thursday

Supply Chain Shaman

This transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals, is expected to close in the first quarter of 2015. Next week I will be speaking on Retail Scorecard adoption as part of the rVCF conference, and then I fly to Turkey to speak on the Race for Supply Chain 2020. I hope to see you in my travels.

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Supply Chain Movement 17 – S&OP

Supply Chain Movement

Contents Supply Chain Movement 17 – 2015 Q2. Publishing date: 15 May 2015. – Launch of Supply Chain Professionals Club in Turkey. 16 | IT Subway Map Europe 2015. 7 | News & Background. – Winner of the last quarter: Raytheon. – Loser of the last quarter: Roll-Royce.

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