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Key Manufacturing Takeaways from FocusConnect 2016

BlueYonder

As 2016 draws to a close, it’s clear that the next 12 months are set to be extremely disruptive for the manufacturing industry. It became apparent at J DA FocusConnect 2016 that industry heavyweights, including Stanley Black & Decker, Philips and Nestlé Purina, are ready for battle. Supply chain segmentation in Europe.

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First Class Ready!

Supply Chain Insights

On May 7, 2016 we announced a partnership with CorpU for next-generation supply chain learning. Today our first course, Supply Chain Metrics That Matter, is ready for sale. The full course catalog will be complete by the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit. The development is complete.

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Getting Ready for 2017: Reflections on Telling Lies

Supply Chain Shaman

Over the last two years Gartner Group introduced the concept of bimodal supply chains. I strongly believe in supply chain segmentation and the need for each supply chain to have a well-defined, and often different, outcome. In 2016 I wrote 35 blog posts. Reflections.

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Think Differently. Drive New Outcomes. Let Us Help You Build A Guiding Coalition.

Supply Chain Insights

In April 2016, we began our partnership with CorpU to bring online training to market for seven next generation classes. To drive growth, supply chains must align the customer response into operations to reflect custom and customer segmentation policies, and so that they can align measures such as cost to serve with profitability.

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JDA’s Project with SanDisk, a Western Digital Brand, Recognized for Its Impressive Supply Chain Transformation

BlueYonder

— land a spot on the Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100 for 2016. It doesn’t include the details of the supply chain transformation that occurred at SanDisk , now a Western Digital Brand, which was the project that secured JDA’s position on the 2016 list.

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2012 Supply Chain Predictions: Is the End of the World Nigh?

Supply Chain Network

As Gartner predicts “Supplier risk will continue to be a major focus, and companies will look to technology for a scalable risk assessment and management solution” (Predicts 2012: Supply Chain Predictions: Talent, Risk and Analytics Dominate: Published: 18 November 2011).

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Balance and Segmentation – What the Election Can Teach Supply Chain

Kinaxis

In my opinion, these are factors that led to the pollsters being so far off on the 2016 US election, and how supply chain practitioners can help these pollsters to improve. Source: Glaka, Max; Election Results in the Third Dimension , 2016. This is segmentation. Now, I ask people to look at Figure 4.