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Holding Ourselves Accountable for Business Results

Supply Chain Shaman

Orbit Chart of Four Industry Sectors at the Intersection of Operating Margin and Inventory Turns (Year-over-Year Averages for the Sector). Lack of Focus on Form & Function of Inventory and Designing Network Flows. As supply chains moved from regional to global, intransit and cycle inventories increased. Maturity Model.

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Is A Customer-Centric Strategy the Same as Demand-Driven? Outside-In?

Supply Chain Shaman

The client leaned across the table and asked, “Is a customer-centric supply chain strategy the same as a demand-driven supply chain strategy?” The focus is on channel data: price; inventory positions; and policies. It was an early morning. I cradled my cup of tea in my hand. It had been a long night. ” I smiled.

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Sustainable Food Waste Management for Food Industry SMEs

Unleashed

Improving food inventory control. The simplest approach to reducing food waste is to optimise inventory control. Effective inventory control can prevent food waste by helping limit the volume of surplus food generated, reduce overstocking, and improve overall food waste management.

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TMS Delivers on NASSTRAC’s Five Common Sense Suggestions for Shippers

Supply Chain Collaborator

Lean inventory control, just-in-time manufacturing and real-time shipment tracking have become the new standard in many industries and that means that transportation is a much more critically important stakeholder in success than before. Step 3 – Give transportation a seat at the “adult table”.

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Supply Chain 2030: Forge a New Path

Supply Chain Shaman

The Supply Chain Insights Global Summit is over, but we hope the energy to define Supply Chain 2030 is just beginning. As companies prepare for Supply Chain 2030, we think that it is time to rethink the basics. As companies prepare for Supply Chain 2030, we think that it is time to rethink the basics. What does it take?

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Unpacking Supply Chain Traceability: A Comprehensive Guide

RFgen

Raw Material Tracking Traceability from the raw materials stage through the consumer tracking stage enables lean manufacturing and gains in productivity. This involves collecting data on the source of each material, including the country of origin, the supplier, and the conditions under which it was produced.

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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

It pains me to see nine out of ten companies are stuck at the critical intersection of cost and inventory turns. In a similar vein, their forecasts for the automotive market would have been on new automotive sales and dealer inventory. Help drive a cross-functional understanding of demand latency as waste through lean programs.