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What is Supply Chain Management? Importance & Benefits

QAD

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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Driving profitability through advanced S&OP

Kinaxis

Inventory down 7%. Inventory down 9%. Inventory down 40%. Inventory down 12%. Strategy alignment. Inventory health. Align your corporate and supply chain strategies. Some specific industry examples, as presented by Spooner, where advanced S&OP has created value include: Industrial. Service up 8%.

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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.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

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. Instance Consolidation Strategy.

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Supply Chain Management:A New Lens for Supply Chain Roadmaps

Infosys Supply Chain Management

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. Healthcare. Medical Devices.

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Green Supply Chain Management - Infosys Blogs

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Pharmaceutical and Biotech. It is the best practice to be followed since it reduces inventory, saves space and energy. Efficient and effective production strategy to reduce energy consumption which includes reducing waste material, air and water emissions. Instance Consolidation Strategy. Healthcare. Medical Devices.

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Supply Chain Management:Why not WMS App? - Infosys Blogs

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Todays WMS is a tightly integrated code between the intrinsic WMS functions like receiving, put away, inventory, picking, packing and shipping, which are the primary functionalities. Instance Consolidation Strategy. Healthcare. Hospitality and Leisure. Industrial Manufacturing. Medical Devices.