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How We Stubbed Our Toe in The Evolution of S&OP

Supply Chain Shaman

I wrote my first report on Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) while sitting on the floor in the Atlanta airport in 2005 when I was an AMR Research analyst. Orchestration enables companies to effectively manage trade-offs between source, make, deliver and sell.) We source this data from Y charts. Mistake #5. Measurement.

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Managing Logistics for The World’s Largest Company with Gary Sostack

The Logistics of Logistics

Right out of college, I worked at a logistics company in Atlanta. We found equipment and materials that can’t be sourced locally. I was involved with the procurement of equipment and materials. As globalization has taken place, more things can be sourced locally. The expected metrics were part of the contract.

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Go Horizontal!

Supply Chain Shaman

In the traditional supply chain world, the processes of sell, deliver, make, source, and plan are separate and distinct. The metrics reward functional thinking. The focus of APICS is manufacturing, CSCMP’s foundation is in logistics, and ISM serves the procurement organization. Evolution of Horizontal Processes.

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We Need Supply Chain Immunity, not Resiliency: A Position Paper

NC State SCRC

For example, companies like Amazon are constructing massive distribution centers outside of major hubs like Atlanta, Raleigh, and Chicago, and are building them with direct access to on-ramps that go onto interstate highways built in the 1950s. One in which the pasture being grazed is covered in human lives.

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21 logistics experts share the most important ingredients in developing an effective logistics strategy

6 River Systems

This way, the client and the operator are completely on the same page (even up to being on the same line of the page) regarding crucial details like goods being dispatched, warehouse goods procurement and delivery at arranged destinations. It builds critical resilience into the logistics process, eradicating manual interference.