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Mitigate Supplier Risk with QAD SRM

QAD

For example, Hyundai recently found a supplier utilizing child labor in the state of Alabama. Examples of performance include quality metrics or logistics metrics. These are metrics that can be calculated internally in the organization based on the actual activity with the supplier.

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Your supply chain is costing you money – Reason #8: Keeping supply chain information in silos (and preventing your users from making the best decisions)

Kinaxis

In today’s competitive manufacturing environment, the only metrics that count are how a change impacts the company’s goals. Put this information into the hands of your planners and suddenly they are making decisions based on the impact to the company, not just to their own internal metrics (like expediting costs). So what do you think?

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This Week in Logistics News (April 8 – 14)

Logistics Viewpoints

More than 70 percent of Toyota Motor Manufacturing , Alabama’s power will soon be generated by the sun. Today, Huntsville Utilities, Toyota Alabama and Toyota Tsusho America, Inc. It is expected to generate 62,000 megawatt hours annually – reducing approximately 22,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions per year.

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Warehouse Labor is Front Page News: But what’s below the fold?

Logistics Viewpoints

The vote on unionization at the Bessemer, Alabama facility was rejected this winter. In the longer term, warehouse labor has been increasingly in high demand as retail shifts more and more from stores to e-commerce fulfillment. It was quickly followed by a vote at what is known as the JFK8 facility in Staten Island, NY.

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Attracting the Next Wave of Category Management Talent

BlueYonder

No longer will the laptop be the key tool for production; category management professionals will be using holographic technology, touchpoint screens, real-time dashboards, and game-like tools to identify the key metrics they are competing against. There is a call to action.

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Attracting the Next Wave of Category Management Talent

BlueYonder

No longer will the laptop be the key tool for production; category management professionals will be using holographic technology, touchpoint screens, real-time dashboards, and game-like tools to identify the key metrics they are competing against. There is a call to action.

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Dedication to Career, Life and Family

BlueYonder

I was in the Alabama National Guard and the California National Guard. In addition to managing these different divisions, I created an intranet and extranet to establish key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to evaluate performance for these specific logistical services. Army uniform. RT: I served in the U.S.