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Random thoughts on “close-to-home-shoring” based on my travels last week…

Supply Chain View from the Field

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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Three Reasons Why I Love Hadoop, and You Should Too!

Supply Chain Shaman

Hadoop is an open-source software framework written in Java for distributed storage and processing of large data sets on computer clusters. I base this belief on interviews with companies testing the architecture for planning and IOT approaches.). As a result, companies closed manufacturing facilities. The data is not moved. (In

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Global Luxury Management “Lifestyle” brands require push supply chain design customization

Supply Chain View from the Field

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! This is a challenging sourcing base, and global luxury brands must also pay attention to general labor and supply chain compliance policies.

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6 Supply Chain Trends That Could Truly Shake You Up (2018 Update)

Logistics Bureau

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.