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Supply Chain Diagnostic: A Four-Step Process

Supply Chain Shaman

Here I share insights on how to get started using a four-step process. In the period of 2010-2018, within the chemical industry, margins fluctuated, largely driven by the price of crude, but inventory turns plummeted. Imagine Supply Chain 2030. The focus is on Imagining Supply Chain 2030. Time For A Supply Chain Check-Up?

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This Week in Logistics News (May 13 – 19)

Logistics Viewpoints

I saw an interesting story earlier this week about how a police department in a small Maryland city is using drones in its effort to thwart illegal dirt bike riding within city limits. million tons of greenhouse gas emissions in 2018, a result that will serve as the baseline for measuring progress.

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A Story of Throwing the Baby Out With The Bathwater in Supply Chain Planning

Supply Chain Shaman

An enlightened leadership team wanted to be sure that the organization knew how to make money through bi-directional orchestration of the bill of materials. Understanding how to use the Solution from Technology Company A is lost, and the Company starts planning in spreadsheets. The focus was on margin and quality.

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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, has admitted that too much automation was slowing down Tesla’s Model 3 production (Allen, 2018). AI and in specific Machine Learning (ML), can become the focus when discussing Intelligence Augmentation (IA) to improve human capabilities in decision making (Makridakis, 2018). Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Sustain 2018: Now Is the Time to Change the Mindset and Embrace the Impossible

EcoVadis

And the best way to move forward and work toward changing the mindset, the conference agreed, is to ensure we have a shared and focused vision, and learn how to communicate and work together. We were convinced there was a way forward.”.

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Trends 2021: Consumer Packaged Goods

Enterra Insights

In order to drive business and create products that meet the needs of and appeal to women, it makes sense to build a workforce that can best address how to design these products because they can accurately identify with the consumer — i.e. other women.”[4] ”[4] Gender is not the only factor to consider.

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What You Need To Know About The State Of The Retail Worker Shortage

ToolsGroup

How to Hire in a Labor Shortage and Meet Customer Expectations. Forecasts by Korn Ferry cited that by 2030, more than 85 million jobs might go unfilled as there won’t be enough skilled people to fill them. How to Make Data-Driven Retail Decisions–Without Hiring Data Scientists. Hiring Halts and Reductions. at approximately $15.