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Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 15, 2022
When reviewing strategy decks for supply chain teams, I often see statements like “move from a functional-silo’d focus to a drive a more holistic response.” ” Followed by “How are you organized, and what defines functional excellence? And, how do you tie functional excellence to corporate value?”
ivalua
JUNE 29, 2020
We believe that a key pillar of this transformation is the supply chain. With such growth comes supply chain complexity. Shift towards self-contracting and self-distribution: With health systems gaining significant scale and wanting more control over their supply chain, this shift is accelerating.
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Supply Chain Shaman
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
Today, supply chain excellence matters more than ever. During the pandemic, the supply chain discussions take new importance. While the supply chain technology market lost its allure at the start of the last decade, it is now cool again. The supply chain career is new. Reflection.
NC State SCRC
APRIL 2, 2023
The term “COE” is often a commonly heard term in supply managers’ vernacular, but it’s interesting to note that Centers of Excellence as an organizational entity have been around for more than fifty years – and evolved first in the form of what was called “shared services”. Thesystemsthinkingreview.co.uk.
Logistics Viewpoints
MARCH 1, 2021
The Introduction of Smokeless Tobacco Products Complicated Philip Morris’s Supply Chain. This was done at a stock keeping unit level and for the entire manufacturing supply chain. At the end of 2019 that supply chain covered 38 PMI owned factories, 28 third party manufacturers, and more than 180 markets.
Logistics Viewpoints
APRIL 5, 2021
Despite the significant amount of effort involved in going from running a business on Excel spreadsheets to implementing an enterprise resource planning (ERP), they are very grateful that their efforts to improve their supply chain agility were underway when the pandemic hit. The company has a sourcing team that vets the beans.
Logistics Viewpoints
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Theme 1: Global supply chains will be busy, congested and chaotic. There were record numbers (see Figure 1) through August 2022 and even when September’s volumes receded they were still 7% higher than pre-pandemic 2019. Source: Descartes Datamyne. Despite many calling for U.S. Figure 1: U.S. That’s pretty abysmal.
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