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RS Group Achieves Back-to-Back Ecovadis Platinum Medal for Sustainability Excellence

Synovos

The objective of the EcoVadis methodology is to measure the quality of a company’s sustainability management system through its policies, actions, and results. This achievement is further heightened, as the criteria for attaining the platinum standard in 2023 are even more rigorous than in previous years.

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Supply Chain Performance Declined In the Last Decade. The Question is Why?

Supply Chain Shaman

of revenue on information technology (IT), only six percent of manufacturers drove performance at the intersection of growth and margin. Average performance in 2016-2019 across twenty-seven manufacturing sectors on inventory turns, Return on Invested Capital and operating margin was worse than in 2012-2015. Despite spending 1.1%

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

Supply Chain Shaman

Consumers constantly change the mix preferences in purchases. Somedays, the focus is on steaks or ribs and the next on the purchase of ground or cubed meat. New demand planners start using the system without clarity on what makes a good plan. Here are my recommendations: Buy Software Like You Manage A Relationship.

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Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button

Supply Chain Shaman

Concurrent macro forces–material shortages, war, shifts in consumer buying patterns, logistics constraints, inflation/recession, and climate change– are reshaping today’s reality necessitating the need for a supply chain reset button. We have heard that there is a focus on near-shoring, reshoring, and local manufacturing.

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Holding Ourselves Accountable for Business Results

Supply Chain Shaman

Each P&L leader will game the system to improve bonus structure payouts. Functional excellence drove regional supply chain performance in the 1990s, but a focus on functional metrics in large, global and complex supply chains over the last two decades threw the supply chain out of balance. The reason? Winners Over Time.

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Driving Sustainable Growth Through Supply Chain Resilience

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

A research from Google, Temasek Holdings and Bain & Co showed the region’s online spending could reach $1 trillion by 2030. Brand loyalty is no longer the driver for consumer purchasing decisions. AI requires a powerful network to retrieve data from internal systems and ecosystem partners. Internal data alone won’t cut it.

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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

I am a manufacturing gal by training. While traditional supply chain processes evolved from functional excellence definitions for source, make and deliver from the inside-out; to make the digital pivot and become more market-driven, companies need to define new supply chain processes outside-in. What drives my passion? Bio-engineering?