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The $30 Billion Secret: How Amazon’s Logistics Saves You Time & Money

SCMDOJO

The inner workings of logistics at Amazon are a marvel of efficiency, precision, and constant innovation. Services by Amazon Here are some of the key services offered by Amazon: General public: Amazon.com – an e-commerce platform offering a diverse selection of products such as books, electronics, apparel, and groceries.

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2020 Requires Big Wings and Feet

Supply Chain Shaman

The budget is for a fiscal year with quarter reporting and updates. The direct connection between the two processes increases costs and increases error. Instead, it should be mapped as an input to track supply chain forecasting to financial budgets for reporting and insights. Apparel is an example. Time horizon.

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Welcome Puff, The Magic Dragon, to Your Team

Supply Chain Shaman

How do we harness the power of data with new forms of analytics? Pirate ships would lower their flag when puff roared out his name oh. Today, technology providers are selling analytics. We don’t understand why the investments of ERP and advanced analytics are not yielding better results…. S&OP Challenges. Reflection.

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The Coronavirus Pandemic Rewarded Companies with Foresight

Enterra Insights

Journalists Sarah Nassauer ( @SarahNassauer ) and Jennifer Maloney ( @maloneyfiles ) report, “Nearly six months into the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S., big-box retailers are emerging as business winners while competitors — including some apparel sellers and small businesses — struggle.”[1]

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Podcast: Rob Handfield on Suppliers, Data, Tech, and Talent

Requis

In the 1990s, purchasing managers were focusing on how to beat up their suppliers in order to buy cheaper. Meanwhile, salespeople for suppliers were trying to work around procurement. Almost all the student projects were related to analytics. Analytics is key. In the pre-COVID world, we thought about landed costs.

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Will the Downturn Signal an Upturn?

Supply Chain Shaman

Many organizations will play the shell game of reporting forecast error so that the numbers look better: either calculating the forecast at a higher level in the forecast hierarchy (not at the item level) or reporting the data as a Weighted Mean Absolute Error. This gives supply chain leaders a false sense of security.

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Supply Chain Best Practices: The Customer-Obsessed Supply Chain

Elementum

Since then, free and fast shipping has ceased to be a privilege and is now an expectation. Wall Street Journal reporter Erica E. In this light, it’s hard to fault us for having higher expectations for product availability when we happen to find the time to make a purchase. They had no choice.