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Supply Chain Planning in Emerging Markets: Four Points to Remember

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These include road and rail networks, utilities like electricity and water, as well as technology infrastructure for information exchange and payments. Difficulty gathering information. GDM now serves more than 100 distributors on five continents and in 180 countries from Argentina to Zimbabwe. Transfer taxes.

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Mindmap for the Fashion & Luxury Goods Market

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In the global fashion and luxury goods market, ever-higher customer expectations, combined with demographic and economic shifts, are making it increasingly difficult to predict consumer behaviour and plan accordingly. This will result in more consumption-oriented planning and collaborative replenishment with dynamic buffer management.

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10 questions about supply chain optimisation

Supply Chain Movement

In order to make the best possible supply chain decisions, it is vital to make a distinction between the various optimisation areas: the supply chain network and the associated stock allocation, the usually monthly supply and demand planning, weekly and daily production planning and scheduling, risk mitigation and the cost to serve.