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Supply Chain Planning in Emerging Markets: Four Points to Remember

ToolsGroup

This, together with lack of visibility, poor planning capability and outdated assets due to high cost of capital, results in ad hoc decisions made in functional silos that are more focused on cost and inventory risk avoidance and less on service, thereby contributing to inefficient (and often, inflexible) supply chain processes.”

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This Week in Logistics News (April 4-8, 2016)

Talking Logistics

In technology news, I attended the Descartes Evolution Global User & Partner Conference this week, which featured a lot of great sessions and case studies. In other words, are Amazon’s competitors chasing after the wrong competitive weapon?