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6 Tips for Students to Develop a Career in the Supply Chain

SCMDOJO

Pursuing a degree in these areas will equip you with the fundamental knowledge of supply chain principles, such as procurement, inventory management, logistics, and operations strategy. For students aiming to carve out a space in this field, doubling down on tech and analytical skills is non-negotiable.

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My Biggest Mistake: Inventory Levels are the Thermometer for the Management of the Company

Arkieva

As a Phd in inventory optimization, I’ve started my supply chain career in adjusting inventory parameters with surgical precision. I was, and I still am passionate about applying statistics and advanced analytics to the supply chain domain. Calculating inventory parameters, using Linear Programming to optimize planning.

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Optimizing Liberty Global’s Supply Chain: An Interview with Willem Vesters

AIMMS

Visibility into the Network side of the business was limited to the company’s engineering and procurement department. Our inventory levels on this side of the business tend to be quite high, with a rotation going to 1 year. Why was this the right moment to start using advanced analytics? What did this POC Workshop look like?

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Allopneus.com Optimizes Inventory and Improves Competitiveness with ToolsGroup

ToolsGroup

ToolsGroup supply chain planning software allows Allopneus.com to improve inventory quality while reducing storage space at its national distribution center by almost 20%. As a result, we need to have more than 20,000 SKUs in stock,” explains Pierre-Jean Coltat, procurement and planning manager at Allopneus. NEWS RELEASE.

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Optimizing Liberty Global’s Supply Chain: An Interview with Willem Vesters

AIMMS

Visibility into the Network side of the business was limited to the company’s engineering and procurement department. Our inventory levels on this side of the business tend to be quite high, with a rotation going to 1 year. Why was this the right moment to start using advanced analytics? What did this POC Workshop look like?

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Five Trends That Excite Me!

Supply Chain Shaman

I am facilitating a workshop between supply chain business visionaries and technology innovators. Could we define business network flows through Apache Spark which can move real-time data like telematics, GPS, weather and temperature data, and sensor information at the speed of business to drive new forms of prescriptive analytics?

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No Easter Bunny?

Supply Chain Shaman

Stuck at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns, only 10% of companies are making progress. Unable to power additional year-over-year improvements at the intersection of cost and inventory, companies struggle. Or to move from predictive analytics to prescriptive/cognitive capabilities to sense/learn and act?