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Avoid “Lost in Translation”. Monetize S&OP to Include Finance.

ToolsGroup

3-9% reduction in transportation costs as a percentage of sales (overhead costs and profitability). In a recent web seminar entitled S&OP: From Volume to Value she asks, “How do supply chain leaders transition from a cost-based agenda to drive value?” These are numbers that most financial people can appreciate.

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Top Ten Tips to Boost Supply Chain Performance to Best in Class

Logistics Bureau

I’ll also be providing some step by step guides and tools on these at our Free Seminars Series in February and March, but more on that later. Transport Service Selection. Tell tale signs of a network problem will be increasing inventory, warehousing and transport costs, stock outs and rising customer complaints.

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Jaro Caban: “Establishing S&OP is a challenging journey”

Supply Chain Movement

Today it operates in 67 countries with 143,000 employees and has 76 business units on six platforms that cover animal feed, food production, energy and transportation, financial services and pharmaceuticals. Which book has inspired you the most and why? Still, after nearly 150 years, it remains a privately owned company.

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Common Supply Chain Mistakes to Avoid

Logistics Bureau

I have seen businesses that produce monthly Supply Chain KPIs that resemble the New York Phone Book! (OK, OK, for anyone under 35, go and Google ‘Phone Book’). At our seminars I often share case studies demonstrating the impact of not getting this right. The prices your company is paying for freight transportation.

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Why Your Supply Chain Isn’t Best in Class

Logistics Bureau

I’m actually going to go into each of these 8 Tips in a lot more detail at our next Free Breakfast Seminar. So do you have a KPI ‘dashboard’ or a ‘book’? Believe me, I have seen 100 page ‘books’ of KPIs that no one except the author reads. 7 – Freight Transport – Service v Cost.

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You Mean You Only Have Two Cards?

Tailwind

An ideal place for her to work because she loves reading, and writing – she loves books. When she was putting her resume together to apply for a job at the bookstore, I told her that she must make mention of the fact that she and I once attended the launch event for the release of the new Harry Potter book. Put it in!”.

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Accelerating Your Trucking Business

Tailwind

I went to one of those motivational speaking seminars. He is the author of the book ‘ The One Thing You Need to Know ’. The post Accelerating Your Trucking Business appeared first on Tailwind Transportation Software. One speaker in particular has stuck with me over the years though. It was a presentation by Marcus Buckingham.