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Why You Should Conduct Internal Quality Audits

Arena Solutions

If you’re a product developer, manufacturer, or part of an engineering team, you know the excitement, challenge, and profitability that come from transforming an idea into an actual product. Leveraging internal audits to align quality management with key business metrics When asked what are the benefits of conducting an internal audit?

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Using the Bits: Building Digital Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

As shown in the 2015 Supply Chains to Admire report , over time, top performing supply chains plateau. In the evolution of today’s analytics most companies are evaluating concurrent optimization of transactional data. We are just beginning to understand how to use sentiment data and new forms of analytics.

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Off to another exciting year of student-industry engagement at NC State on cutting-edge supply chain projects

NC State SCRC

Here is a sample of the type of projects our MBA and Engineering students are working on this semester, proving again that NC State is all about “THINK AND DO” (in our case, executing on practical applications in the real world using robust supply chain analytical approaches). MUFG Union Bank Strategic Performance Metrics.

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Five Trends That Excite Me!

Supply Chain Shaman

Today as I sit scrunched into a coach seat in 26C, working on this blog post and hoping to not spill my coffee on my neighbor, I dutifully type to complete my weekly post. I am facilitating a workshop between supply chain business visionaries and technology innovators. Holiday travel. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays.

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No Easter Bunny?

Supply Chain Shaman

Dear Supply Chain Leader, Today, sitting in my seat in 11K on a Cathay Pacific flight between Hong Kong and Boston, I want to report that there is no Easter Bunny. Today I also want to report that, based on over a decade of scientific discovery, traditional supply chain practices are not best practices. There is also no Santa Claus.

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Offering Prayers While Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2008, the company manufactured 2.5% PCA’s customers were larger food manufacturers. The manufacturers sourced the peanut butter primarily on cost. When I do workshops on driving data sharing across the industry, the sales group of the seller of products often calls me aside for a one-on-one talk.

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Bio-based Products Future is Promising, but Hurdles Exist

Supply Chain View from the Field

Some of the recommendations I made to the group are discussed here in this blog, and published in the latest edition of Industrial Biotechnology journal. Effectively, there is no database that permits reliable reporting on the volume of biobased products sold in the US or exported for global consumers.