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Industrial Materials Companies in the Supply Chain: Time to Seize the Moment

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The ability to make strategic, tactical, and operational supply chain decisions in the digital ecosystem is and will continue to be a critical part of decision-making for supply chain leaders.

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Improving Capacity Planning and Operations with a Digital Planning Twin

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Defining the Objective. FedEx Office is comprised of nearly 2,200 retail stores, 15,000 employees, 18 commercial print facilities, and a nationwide transportation fleet. Tom DeGreve, Managing Director of Production Strategy & Engineering for FedEx Office, supported by advisement from Pierre Mawet, Managing Director of Supply Chain & Operations at Accenture NA, set out to better understand the complexities of print for the company’s customers, costs associated with transportation and prod

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How a Digital Planning Twin Drives Capacity Planning, Network Design, and Business Transformation

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Underlying Technology in Digital Planning Twins. From a technology perspective, a Digital Planning Twin is a constraint-based digital representation of an enterprise’s full value chain – including all commercial, operational, and financial components. Its cloud-based architecture ensures security and scalability, while no-code implementation and pre-built templates get businesses up and running fast without IT or data science resource drains.

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Three Key Questions in Business Continuity Planning

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For many, this combination of complexity and pressure stemming from BCP is, in turn, introducing anxiety and a sense of frustration. Fortunately, this doesn’t have to be the case.

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Three Key Principles for Successful Supply Chain Network Design

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Network design implementations are also notorious for spinning their wheels when scenario modeling and analysis bog down people and other resources to a point where initiatives fail, experience cost and schedule overruns, or simply underperform. So what can leaders do to support successful supply chain network design initiatives?

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How Business Continuity Planning is Better with Digital Twin Technology

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Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is, in essence, an organization’s readiness and capability to continue meeting its objectives and demands at acceptable levels when disruptions arise. Today, two issues are compelling leaders to reexamine how they tackle BCP in their organizations: 1) Disruptions have become more intense and frequent, and 2) Significant limitations in traditional BCP approaches are rearing their ugly heads.

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Digital Twin and Supply Chain Disruption – Planning that Produces Competitive Advantage

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If we didn’t know what real supply chain disruption was before, we do now. Events over the past 18+ months (COVID-19, Brexit, Suez Canal blockage, India-China border conflict, natural disasters, cyberattacks on pipelines and shipping lines) forced companies to find new ways to deliver goods and services, secure alternative sources for needed materials, and simply determine how to survive.