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Supply Chain Leadership Driving Industry 4.0 & Resilience During Crisis – LogiSYM July 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

This can be applied to inventory management, fleet and order tracking, ID badging. This helps improve order management and accuracy, shorten estimated transit times (ETAs) and minimise out-of-stock situations. Amazon’s supply chain heavily depends on the outsourcing of its inventory management.

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How Do You Define a Mature Supply Chain Planning Organization? (Part 1)

Supply Chain Shaman

Definition of push/pull decoupling points and the role of postponement to improve inventory as a supply chain buffer to improve agility. Concerted plans that focus on inventory management as one part of the supply chain as a complex system. I am currently busy writing a second book. <Writing a book is tough work.

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Unleashed SME Supply Chain Resilience Roundtable: Improving Cash Flow in a Manufacturing Business

Unleashed

In South Africa, there are a lot of third-party fulfilment companies , so costs were going up with them.” His team rely on Unleashed inventory management software to pull that data and break it down into accessible reports. And from 2017–2023, we managed to amass a huge amount of data.

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Top 20 Verified Supply Chain Experts You Can Hire

SCMDOJO

Muddassir offer are as follows: Digital Transformation Inventory Optimization Analysis Advisory and Coaching for Supply Chain Software companies & Professionals Guide: Dr. Muddassir as the supply chain specialist has created 7 e-Books for the SCMDOJO Academy with his extensive knowledge and experience in the field.

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26 logistics professionals reveal the biggest trends in logistics technology

6 River Systems

By deeply integrating into a shipper’s systems and processes, with services like instant rates and one click booking, the time required to cover a given load can be dramatically reduced. Zipline already delivers medication to areas in Africa that are difficult to access. Dr Julian Stephens. Benjamin Meskin. SupplyPike.

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Supply Chain Management in a VUCA World

Enterra Insights

Back in 2011, supply chain analyst Trevor Miles ( @milesahead ) noted there is a similar sounding word supply chain managers should associate with VUCA. He explains, “I almost feel that we should be shouting ‘Vuka’ which in Xhosa (one of the South Africa languages) means ‘wake up.’ Wake up to the new reality that VUCA is a new norm.”[1]

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Navigating the Future in an Uncertain Political and Regulatory Environment

NC State SCRC

Finally, Jason commented on insights from his latest book “ Jobs for Robots “, that suggest that higher level human jobs will never be fully replaced by robots, but that mundane and low cost jobs very well could be. Education is the best medicine against having your job “robofied!