Supply Chain View from the Field

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Metrics about safety standards, discrimination, labor conditions, child labor, and wages can be made a part of every assessment of every supplier, as well as every business case; countermeasures to react to unacceptable values of these metrics can also be implemented. Adopting technology to drive visibility is the second step.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Luxury brands are also not like “fast fashion companies” like Gap, Zara, H&M, and others – they buy fabric, throw it out, find out what sells, and make more of it! The problem, of course, is that companies struggles to find individuals who are willing to work in apparel manufacturing plants.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 11, 2018

Even if your company has rejigged it supply chain in the years since this article was published, the chances are that it’s still not optimised for best results, unless yours is one of the few enterprises at the leading edge of digital transformation and has also implemented a totally demand-driven supply chain strategy.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

APRIL 27, 2013

An explanation offered by Christensen was what he coined“The Church of New Finance,” in which business school professors act as the high priests that indoctrinate their MBAs into a belief system of complex, ratio-based financial metrics as the only correct system of measurement.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

What are the metrics used to measure performance is part of the contract terms, especially around on-time service commitments. Some companies emphasizesthe same “experience” for all of their products, and this was one of the toughest parts of meeting their logistics requirements on new products.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

I base this belief on interviews with companies testing the architecture for planning and IOT approaches.). In the recession of 2008, it took the average consumer products company three-to-five months to sense the recession and redefine product plans. As a result, companies closed manufacturing facilities.

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