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Handfield’s Supply Chain Analytics Predictions for 2014

Supply Chain View from the Field

In particular, the focal BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) represent major targets for expansion, but with them come a host of new problem that enterprises have little to no experience in dealing with in terms of logistics capabilities. Here is what I expect to see next year: Global supply chain footprints will continue to expand.

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UPS Executive Shares Insights on Total Cost of Ownership in the Electronics Supply Chain

Supply Chain View from the Field

BRIC Supply Chain Global Distribution Global Supply Chain Inventory Management Retail Logistics Strategic Cost Management Supply Chain Management Supply Chain Strategy Supply Chain Systems' ” Next time you think about total cost of ownership – just think about the number of parameters in this channel!

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

Supply Chain Shaman

Doug Cutting and Mike Carafella in an effort to improve searching created a distributed storage system termed Hadoop. Hadoop is an open-source software framework written in Java for distributed storage and processing of large data sets on computer clusters. Inventories are high, and we have excessive ocean capacity.

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Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Derek Panchyshyn!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Our interactions spanned the full range of Customer-Supply Chain activities: materials costing, planning, materials availability, inventory, delivery performance, and logistics. I was in the Supply Chain organization and Derek Panchyshyn was the Executive in charge of the EMC Account. Derek was always the consummate professional.

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Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Derek Panchyshyn, SVP at ATX Networks!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Our interactions spanned the full range of Customer-Supply Chain activities: materials costing, planning, materials availability, inventory, delivery performance, and logistics. I was in the Supply Chain organization and Derek was the Executive in charge of the EMC Account. Derek was always the consummate professional.

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The Emerging Supply Chain Wars

NC State SCRC

For example, America’s import content of exports is relatively low (15%) but increases to actually 40% if one takes a full-cycle view of downstream distribution and sales as being included in the end to end supply chain view. 1] Products should carry the label of “Made Everywhere”. Replacement parts for airlines, equipment, appliances, etc.

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Nike Learns to Mass Customize Shoes While Near-Shoring

NC State SCRC

The third was a more standard shoe that they called the “Sub-7”, which is one where they take an order, the product is customized onshore or near shore with some stock inventory and light customization and personalization. A midpoint was a simpler, faster model with 4-6 choices, that could be made in 2 weeks or less.