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Patterns Tell the Story of Supply Chain Excellence

Supply Chain Shaman

We purchase data from Y charts. (A This data source synchronizes corporate reporting across global markets while tracking restatements, name changes, and currency shifts.) As an aside, I do not think that Lenovo is an example of a supply chain excellence. For the past decade, I have been studying these patterns.

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Ways Food and Beverage can Build Resilience with Supply Chain Optimization Software

Logility

From harvest to hands, the food & beverage (F&B) industry leaves no room for guesswork, especially without supply chain optimization software. The key to creating an effective market-driven demand plan is access to rich forecasts based on inputs from multiple sources.

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Yards Are Hard

Logistics Viewpoints

A recent conversation with a major distributor of consumer beverages encapsulated many of the most common issues. Create a facilities “Center of Excellence.” Managing yard and warehouse operations has long been one of the thornier aspects of transportation logistics. The returns on these kinds of efforts will be swift and tangible.

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My Take: E2open Buys Terra Technology

Supply Chain Shaman

As an analyst in the supply chain market for 15 years, I have written many articles on best-of-breed technology companies purchased by a larger company. Over the last decade the use of Terra Technology’s DS product improved short-term demand forecasts by 37% at 13 consumer products, and food and beverage companies.

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People and Halal Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

In other words, halal requires an organisation of the supply chain instead of just the factory: from source all the way up to point of consumer purchase. The brand owner has its plant halal certified and is buying its ingredients from suppliers with the right halal certificates. distributor, retailer) and suppliers (e.g.:

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Elevating The Voice of the Supply Chain Contrarian

Supply Chain Shaman

For example, Monster Beverages beats Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, while Celanese outperforms Dow Chemical. Demand latency is the time cycle to translate a channel purchase to an order.) (The analyst ranking in the Gartner Top 25 represents 25% of the score, while the industry peer analysis is 25%.

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Stories of Supply Chain Leadership: An Interview with Joan Motsinger of Seagate

Supply Chain Shaman

Many companies talk about Supply Chain Excellence, but most leaders struggle to define it. One supply chain leader, in a discussion last week, likened supply chain excellence to fitness. He felt that supply chain excellence was analogous. Our journey for supply chain excellence has changed and evolved over time.