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Is it time to take your supply chain glocal?

Kinaxis

Their regional menus offer things like the Chicken Maharaja Mac in India, the Croque McDo in Belgium and the KiwiBurger in New Zealand. Decentralized authority, which can accompany regionalization, results in each location working toward its own goals and objectives, instead of focusing on company-wide metrics and KPIs.

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Demand-Driven Transformation at Shell

Supply Chain Shaman

The Company also has franchised aftermarket services in automotive repair shops, retail outlets, and everything in between. Completed in 2012, the ERP project forced the company to standardize organizational design, roles, and metrics. Shell’s goal is to provide a variety of products to enable usage in multiple applications.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 2 – 8)

Logistics Viewpoints

I saw an article recently about a cargo flight headed to Belgium from New York that had to turn around mid-flight. beverage industry paid $2.175 billion in Section 232 tariffs on 10.295 million metric tons of aluminum since their implementation. The process releases nearly twice as much CO2 per metric ton (1.1