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Asking the Right Questions Is The First Step To Drive Supply Chain Excellence

Supply Chain Shaman

Each year, we compile a list of top-performing Supply Chains, termed the Supply Chains to Admire. This week, while all my friends are on vacation, I am writing the final report for the Supply Chains to Admire. Our goal is to continually redefine the definition of supply chain excellence.

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My Lessons in Interviewing Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

In business conversations, the term supply chain excellence rolls off the tongue frequently in meetings, but what does it mean? Supply chain excellence is harder to define than to say. We designed the Supply Chains to Admire Methodology to help companies define supply chain excellence.

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What Do You Know About Supply Chain Planning & Optimization?

DELMIA Quintiq

Whether you know a lot about Supply Chain Planning & Optimization or want to learn more, you have an opportunity to test your skills. Developed in conjunction with the actual JEOPARDY game show team, Supply Chain JEOPARDY will test your Supply Chain Planning & Optimization knowledge. Register here.

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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. Time For A Supply Chain Check-Up? When a company contacts me to help them with their supply chain, the pain is usually a gap in customer service. To complete a supply chain diagnostic, I take these four steps: Step One.

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Key takeaways from our CogX panel on how to shape the circular economy for 2030

Provenance

How can we build resilience into our current supply chains? See how we addressed this our CogX2020 talk…. and sustainable supply chains” focus, we were joined by: Fiona Place, Director at Anthesis Group. We also need to see who all sits in the supply chain. As a part of their “Industry 4.0

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

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2004, I worked with a Midwest North American meatpacker to help define its supply chain strategy. 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. A Story of Throwing The Baby Out With The Bath Water.

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How to Mitigate Supply Chain Disruptions with Mobile Barcoding

RFgen

The supply chain is constantly being disrupted, leading to challenging inventory operations and customer need fulfillment. Mobile barcoding technology coupled with a strong supply chain management strategy can help you quickly shift production with minimal downtime. million manufacturing jobs could go unfilled by 2030.