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The New Significance of a Logistics Strategy: Role, Success factors, and Integration

Logistics Viewpoints

Recently, Walmart US adapted its organization: President and CEO John Former explains that the new COO role combines store operations and supply chain. Trusted tools for planning and control of the supply chain and individual locations are used – for the point of sale, the warehouse and for transport.

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o9 Solutions and Genpact Partner to Digitally Transform Supply Chain of Eckes-Granini

o9 Solutions

The joint initiative digitizes end-to-end supply chain processes at Eckes-Granini and breaks down information silos within the organization. The implementation will reduce supply chain costs and inventories, eliminate excess inventory, waste and duplicative processes and enhance operating efficiencies to support long-term goals.

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Doing Business in Germany

QAD

km and borders the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and other countries including the Netherlands, Poland, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Luxembourg and Switzerland. Supply Chain Infrastructure for Manufacturing. Italy, Austria, Poland and Switzerland. Austria and Switzerland. Political Landscape.

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GrandVision: “We are changing completely as we become demand driven”

Supply Chain Movement

the world’s largest network of optical retail stores is far along the path from historically being supplier-led to having a strong demand driven supply chain. And we are still on a journey with many more opportunities,” the Vice President Supply Chain says. Until a few years ago we were a very supply driven company.

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Gebrüder Weiss establish control tower concept for Hilti

Supply Chain Movement

During Translog Connect, held in Budapest on the 25-26 of November 2014, TEG The Events Group – the organiser of the logistics and supply chain management summit, is going to recognise and promote outstanding logistics and supply chain management solutions in the rapidly growing region of CEE again.

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Digital logistics: how manufacturing companies can profit

DELMIA Quintiq

Against a record backdrop of more than 700 congress visitors, the event was all about opportunities for making supply chains more intelligent, efficient and agile through digitalisation. Without IT applications, complex processes in the supply chain cannot be mastered any more.

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Who said supply chains are boring?: AMR's Top 25 Highs and Lows

Supply Chains Rock

Who said supply chains are boring? Whenever I tell a friend, colleague or family member about my job as soon as the words "supply chain" are muttered I immediately see glassy eyes followed by a yawn or two. I still have bitter memories of all the T-Mobile shops in Austria running out of iPhones on the launch day.