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

Supply Chain Shaman

Recognition of constraints and the management of floating bottlenecks. Management and planning of the entire network against a value network strategy. Integration of corporate social responsibility metrics in planning. There is a lack of clarity on what drives value and metrics are functional. Supply Chain Design.

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

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Quick solutions to employee shortages, remote working, and to ensure health and safety across the company need to be deployed. Team re-building, split of responsibilities/tasks, border closure challenges, quick navigation of stock management, prioritisation of logistics to consumer needs and coordination with partners upstream and downstream.

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Supply Chain Roundtable Series: Getting Demand Forecasting Right 

Unleashed

It’s easy to get excited about a new product launch, especially when there’s historical evidence in the company to validate it. Protecting profit margins from ALC inflation ALC (Average Landed Cost) is a crucial metric in demand forecasting and inventory valuation.

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News Round-Up: 3 Businesses Prioritizing a Green Supply Chain

RFgen

Here are three stories from the recent news about companies prioritizing green manufacturing and distribution techniques and what it meant for their overall success: 1. The company’s information indicated 75 percent of the organization’s carbon footprint stems from its supply chain. Apple Wants to Stop Climate Change.

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News Round-Up: 3 Businesses Prioritizing a Green Supply Chain

RFgen

Here are three stories from the recent news about companies prioritizing green manufacturing and distribution techniques and what it meant for their overall success: 1. The company’s information indicated 75 percent of the organization’s carbon footprint stems from its supply chain. Apple Wants to Stop Climate Change.

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26 logistics professionals reveal the biggest trends in logistics technology

6 River Systems

RFID tags and robotic warehouse systems generate and transmit data that, when combined with other data sources, allow companies to optimize the supply chain and make better predictions and forecasts to improve efficiency and boost the bottom line. In 2019, gathering unique data will be more prominent in the brains of logistic companies.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Third-party logistics companies ( 3PLs ) specialize in distribution, warehousing and fulfillment services. The core competency of these companies is logistics , and they do it well. Even Amazon used third-party logistics companies when the company first started, until reaching sufficient scale to have a logistics arm of its own.