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Market Beat. Four Thumbs Down and One Thumb Up.

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, supply chain excellence matters more than ever. Globally ten percent of jobs are in manufacturing, while 37% are associated with supply chain management. They are impatient that they know more about pizza’s status for lunch before their zoom meeting than the inbound shipment status for their critical manufacturing run.

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L’Oréal: A Case Study in Supply Chain Excellence

Supply Chain Shaman

Based in Paris, L’Oréal is a global personal care manufacturing company. On average fo rthe period of 2006-2016, L’Oreal had a 17% operating margin as compared to Estee Lauder’s operating margin of 13%. (Read more to understand the details on the Supply Chain Index ,). Supply Chains to Admire Methodology.

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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

As Allyson presented her story of working for multiple consumer products companies, with very advanced technologies (demand sensing, advanced automation of forecasting, data lakes and descriptive analytics), she spoke of why at the end of the day, the most important technology that she uses is Excel. The question is, “Why?”

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AGCO: Driving a Digital Manufacturing Transformation

Supply Chain Shaman

AGCO was honored to receive the AME 2017 Excellence Award. When her employees kept breaking their tablets on the production floor, Peggy used lean-production thought processes to innovate for new answers. AGCO’s culture of innovation policy deployment enabled employees to pioneer a technology solution for manufacturing.

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Do Digital Your Way. Sidestep the Supply Chain Conquistadors

Supply Chain Shaman

In the process, there is a fine line between marketing hype and overpromising, making buying difficult. The race started in 2016 as a foggy definition of digital appeared in supply chain marketing from technology providers. For many tech providers, the message often becomes a religious argument. Who has the best approach?

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Interviewing the Innovators: Kegan Fisher, CEO of SOLS on the rise of on-demand, mass customised manufacturing.

Supply Chain Movement

It was the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter who coined the term ‘creative destruction’, the processes whereby entrepreneurs and their innovations create new technological paradigms and new industries that disrupt and ultimately destroy the existing ones. One of these new entrepreneurs and new innovators is Kegan Fisher.

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Overview of European supply chain events 2016

Supply Chain Movement

Supply Chain Movement helps you along with an overview of the most important European supply chain events in 2016. Last updated on January 6th , 2016. RLCON 2016. eWorld Purchasing & Supply. ARC Industry Forum Europe 2016. 2nd Annual Global Process Improvement & Operational Excellence Summit.