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

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

This boosts revenues and optimises inventory. 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. In a crisis economic factors are critical.

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

Supply Chain Shaman

Monthly design of the supply chain including form and function of inventory and inventory placement. Clear understanding of the supply chain as a complex system with executive capability to manage the trade-offs versus using a common understanding. Focus on the level of inventory. Charting the Journey.

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

Unleashed

While this may prevent critical stockouts, it’s created another problem: All their cash is tied up in inventory, leaving manufacturers desperately scrambling to pay bills and employees on time. In South Africa, there are a lot of third-party fulfilment companies , so costs were going up with them.”

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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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Top 20 Verified Supply Chain Experts You Can Hire

SCMDOJO

Services Dr. 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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KPI Key Performance Indicators in Supply Chain & Logistics

Logistics Bureau

I’ve literally seen KPI “packs” the size of phone books, and even KPI sets circulated as a monthly magazine… that no one reads. Inventory stock turns in Days. If you’d like to read more about Supply Chain KPIs, you can download (free) a chapter from one of our Best Selling Books on the topic. Inventory management.

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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!