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What is Supply Chain Management? Importance & Benefits

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Supply chain management (SCM) is essential to any business strategy. Facets of this broad field include demand planning, inventory management, logistics, acquisitions and partner management. E-commerce brands must oversee design, manufacturing, sourcing, warehouse inventory, shipping and delivery. Let’s dive in.

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Biogen Idec designs the innovation supply chain

Supply Chain View from the Field

Since graduating from the NC State Jenkins MBA program in 2006, Joydeep Ganguly has risen through the ranks at Biogen Idec – the world’s oldest independent biotechnology company and the largest biotech employer in North Carolina. He posed the following scenario: You are the COO of a Biotech company tasked with designing a supply chain.

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Supply Chain Management:Increase in Operational Efficiency.

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Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. One of the biggest time consuming and mundane activities in warehouse management is the pick up of inventory and the appropriate shelving of inventory. Imagine picking up inventory from the warehouse without having any paper lists or even any barcode scanners.

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Green Supply Chain Management - Infosys Blogs

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. What is Green Supply Chain Management : Green Supply Chain Management is all about delivering products and services from suppliers, manufacturers to end customers through material flow, information flow and cash flow in the context of environment. Consumer Packaged Goods.

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Supply Chain Management:Utility of iPads on Shop Floor

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Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Today, manufacturing companies have adopted software in major part of their supply chain. The habit of constantly monitoring real time manufacturing process through iPad and take real time decisions can drastically lead to waste reduction and optimal inventory.

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Supply Chain Management:A New Lens for Supply Chain Roadmaps

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Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Let us take an initiative such as Inventory Optimization as an example. Somewhere along the year-long journey of cataloging requirements and assessing gaps, inventory optimization takes a SKU rationalization flavor and the goal turns to the avoidance of SKU proliferation.

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Supply Chain Management:The Real Headline for the 2011 Holiday.

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Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. We further noted that the upcoming 2011 holiday buying season would once again drive home the premise that MCO and responsive supply chain inventory management are often the best complement to effective multi-channel and online commerce plans. Consumer Packaged Goods.