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Save The Supply Chain Leader From Groupthink

Supply Chain Shaman

These teams are also more advanced in the use of planning and more advanced analytics concepts. In contrast, finance flexes inventory up and down in less mature organizations to manipulate cash flow for either investor reporting or bonus incentives. The second is there is no clear reporting on the cause and effect.

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Pandemic success stories: What can be learned from these triumphs?

USC Consulting Group

From rising unemployment rates to businesses large and small struggling to stay afloat and entire industries in virtual standstill due to social distancing measures and shutdown restrictions, most reported news was pretty bleak. As more states look to revitalize their economies, some much needed signs of encouragement have taken root.

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4PLs: Collaboration Among Logistics Service Providers Creating More Value for Shippers

GlobalTranz

In other words, 4PLs enable an organization to work smarter, more efficiently, all the while without the increased cost of purchasing such services from another consultant. According to MH& L News , 29 percent of shippers report using 4 PLs for the purpose of accessing more capacity. Cost-Savings and Future Planning.

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Major organisational and cultural changes lie ahead for SCM

Supply Chain Movement

Professor Theodore Stank from the Global Supply Chain Institute at the University of Tennessee provided an update on the status of supply chain management within companies, saying that supply chain professionals have not yet reached the end of their journey. S&OP and omnichannel supply chains are demanding new analytical skills.

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Supply Chain Goals for 2022: What Should You Prioritize?

Logility

A 2021 McKinsey report suggests that COVID has put supply chain risk on everyone’s radar. That’s all well and good, but the report goes on to say that “significant blind spots remain.” One key finding: 85% of respondents indicated that they have shifted their purchase behavior toward sustainable products over the past five years.

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26 warehouse pros reveal the most important factors to consider when moving to an automated warehouse

6 River Systems

Rupy Sawhney is the Heath Fellow in Business and Engineering at the University of Tennessee, combining both fields through his knowledge of lean manufacturing, the optimization of production without a drop off in quality or worker health. Rupy Sawhney. Dary Merckens. gunnertech. megaventory.

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Becoming a High Performing Sense and Respond Enterprise: End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility is Key

Talking Logistics

Here are some tips on how to enable end-to-end visibility across your enterprise: Sense and respond are critical processes for supply chain visibility and can only be achieved through a collaborative network that is coupled with robust business process orchestration and advanced analytics.