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L’Oréal: A Case Study in Supply Chain Excellence

Supply Chain Shaman

The award, based on beating the industry peer group on rate of improvement on the key metrics of growth, operating margin, inventory turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) while outperforming their peer group, is tough to achieve. The orbit chart below illustrates L’Oréal’s performance at the intersection of two metrics.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 1 – 7)

Logistics Viewpoints

The company created Project Gigaton in 2017 to engage suppliers and other stakeholders up and down the supply chain to reduce carbon emissions. The goal is to reduce or avoid one billion metric tons (a gigaton) of greenhouse gasses from the global value chain by 2030. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Doing Business in Belgium

QAD

Belgium is bordered by France, Germany, Luxembourg and Netherlands, and has a robust shipping infrastructure including multiple ports, making it a perfect location for trade both within the EU and with other geographic regions. 2 percent annually as of 2017, making Belgium the 168 th country in the world for industrial growth rates.

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More Apple Suppliers Commit to 100% Clean Energy Production

Material Handling & Logistics

million metric tons of greenhouse gases from being emitted in 2017. million metric tons of greenhouse gases from being emitted in 2017 — the equivalent of taking more than 300,000 cars off the road. Clean energy from suppliers, helped avoid over 1.5 Currently, 23 suppliers are committed to this goal.

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Why Singles Day Will Become A US Sales Festival

Freightos

One popular metric – a country’s logistics costs as a percentage of GDP – has China at 18% and the US at only 8.5%. China’s middle class surpassed the US’s middle class in 2015, and is larger than the combined middle class population of Germany, Spain, UK and France. The Chinese Middle Class Is Huge.

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Demand-Driven Transformation at Shell

Supply Chain Shaman

The implementation of a Demand-Driven Materials Requirements Planning (DDMRP) using Orchestr8 followed in 2017. Completed in 2012, the ERP project forced the company to standardize organizational design, roles, and metrics. He did this first by implementing demand sensing from Terra Technology (now E2Open) eight years ago. The reason?

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Digital Transformation Leads to Digital Enlightenment

Enterra Insights

Francophiles generally trace the beginning of the era to French thinkers who emerged following the death of Louis XIV of France. Minevich writes, “The first leg of the AI adoption journey requires businesses to already possess strong data analytics and metric-gathering capabilities. 2] Those are not easy questions to answer.