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Head Scratcher

Supply Chain Shaman

The broader concepts of connecting from the customer’s customer to the supplier’s supplier are largely forgotten. My focus is on process flows from the customer’s customer to the supplier’s supplier. John’s Vision of Supply Chain Planning. What do you think of John’s vision?

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

Supply Chain Insights

Benchmarking. The first step to building a guiding a coalition is benchmarking. We are offering three types of benchmarking: planning, financial and organizational. Understand inventory write-offs, impact of forecast processes and technology satisfaction in the planning benchmarking. Here we share some insights.

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Supply Chain Scope: New Study Shows Rise in US Inventories; California Estimated to Improve Freight Efficiency by 25% in 2030

Arkieva

Sustainable Freight Action Plan for California is estimated to Improve Freight Efficiency by 25% in 2030. Targets for 2030 Include: Improve freight system efficiency 25 percent by 2030. SupplyChainDigest benchmark study of about 100 companies reveals an increase in US company inventories since the recession. “In

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

Supply Chain Trend

In my benchmark survey (Van Hove, 2017), only 25% of survey participants answered yes to the question ‘ We have a relentless focus on only what is important for long term business objectives ’. S&OE ENVIRONMENT. How to Shape a Company Culture with S&OP, Foresight, issue 45 (Spring 2017). Van Hove, N. Van Hove, N.

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S&OP: Five Steps to Get Started

Supply Chain Shaman

I will also pen my 95th report for this week’s Supply Chain Insight’s newsletter. It is one that is often asked: “S&OP How Do I Get Started?” ” S&OP: How Do I Get Started? I asked, “Why is S&OP important to your business?”

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Sustainable Food Waste Management for Food Industry SMEs

Unleashed

Over a third of the world’s food produce and products are wasted. For example the Raven Food Co-op, a Warsaw-based food cooperative is committed to preventing food waste before it occurs. In 2018 Australia became the first country to set a target to cut its food waste in half by the year 2030.