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HWI Unleashes Continuous Innovation

Logistics Viewpoints

They view their implementation of a tightly integrated suite of applications delivered in a public cloud infrastructure from Oracle as a platform on which they can build to help drive continuous innovation. HarbisonWalker International Manufactures and Distributes Refractory Products. HWI employed a crawl-walk-run methodology.

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Pet Food Manufacturing and the Pandemic: Inside an Industry Boom

Unleashed

Here we provide an overview of the latest pet food industry trends, and answer the question: how can pet food manufacturers respond to changes in consumer demands to take advantage of these new trends? manufacturing had seen five years of consistent growth. manufactured?pet purchase in bulk, hoarding quantities?of

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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

To understand the phenomenon , the 2019 GDP was 2.16%. Source E2open Shipping Index). The Chief Financial Officer gained more presence with procurement and IT reporting to finance. A Decline in Innovation. Ironically, technology innovation is the highest that I have ever seen. Less Collaborative.

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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

To understand the phenomenon , the 2019 GDP was 2.16%. Source E2open Shipping Index). The Chief Financial Officer gained more presence with procurement and IT reporting to finance. A Decline in Innovation. Ironically, technology innovation is the highest that I have ever seen. Less Collaborative.

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Save The Supply Chain Leader From Groupthink

Supply Chain Shaman

Business continuity continues to be a risk for many retailers and manufacturers. To put this in perspective, if they had no planning system and no planners and just assumed that they would ship based on prior shipments, the forecast would be better, and the inventory levels more accurate. My take away? SAP and IBM failed the market.

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MANUFACTURING MUST BE DATA-DRIVEN

ThroughPut

Manufacturing Must Be Data-Driven. Published on 2019-09-24 - Industrytoday.com. September 23, 2019. One of the most common misconceptions about manufacturing is that it’s data-driven. In reality, supply chains have been historically slow-moving, especially in terms of innovation. By Bhaskar Ballapragada.

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It’s All About the Logistics

Enterra Insights

He was hired as a purchasing agent and was directed to obtain some procurement training at a local certificate mill.[1] 1] “During the first few hours,” he writes, “we went over the pertinent areas of a purchase order. Two-day or same-day shipping is becoming the norm. ” Changing with the times.