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When The Chickens Come Home To Roost

Supply Chain Shaman

Inventories in the chemical industry are at record lows: a forerunner of bad days ahead. While we will recover quickly in retail (moving from painful shortages to a glut of inventory), the chemical industry–sitting four and five layers back in the supply chain–takes longer to recover. Time For Action.

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Announcing Connected Planning and Execution from Alloy

Alloy

Today marks a very important step forward toward Alloy’s vision as we announce the release of our Connected Planning & Execution platform. We started Alloy six years ago to help consumer goods brands more quickly and efficiently respond to ever-changing consumer demand. At the time, supply chains were often afterthoughts.

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GM Supplier Factory Explosion: Thoughts on Supply Chain Visibility and Responsibility

Talking Logistics

Zhongron supplies aluminum alloy wheel hubs to another company, Citic Dicastal Wheel Manufacturing Co., This is by no means an easy task, especially for companies like GM with complex, global supply chains. Companies are also making similar efforts to eliminate slave labor from their supply chains.

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Sizing up RSi and Alloy with a company insider

Alloy

In this Q&A with Brian Babbitt , Head of Solutions Consulting at Alloy, we discuss options for consumer goods manufacturers evaluating supply chain management solutions. RSi was acquired by IRI in October 2020 in hopes of helping customers actually optimize their supply chain. What led you to Alloy?

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Who Uses ITAM (IT Asset Management) and Why?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Are Ghost Assets Haunting Your Inventory Control? Key Components of IT Asset Management ITAM involves several critical components: Asset Discovery and Inventory : Identifying all hardware and software assets within the organization. Originally written for Supply Chain Game Changer and published on September 18, 2024.

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How Is Novelis Unlocking Supply Chain Value with o9?

o9 Solutions

At this year’s Gartner Supply Chain Symposium in Barcelona, Andreas Nickel, Global IT Lead for Supply Chain Applications at Novelis, took the stage to share an inside look at one of the metals industry’s most ambitious digital planning transformations. Most people don’t know what Novelis does. Why Digital Transformation.

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When The Chickens Come Home To Roost

Supply Chain Shaman

Inventories in the chemical industry are at record lows: a forerunner of bad days ahead. While we will recover quickly in retail (moving from painful shortages to a glut of inventory), the chemical industry–sitting four and five layers back in the supply chain–takes longer to recover. Time For Action.