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Is Walmart Really Ready to Take on Logistics In India?

Supply Chain View from the Field

The story highlights some of the findings of our recent global logistics study,which found that logistics infrastructure is one of the most challenging issues, particularly for retailers who are expanding into BRIC countries such as India. We use the IT to provide large amounts of information about supply chain performance to our customers.

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

Supply Chain Shaman

Inventories are high, and we have excessive ocean capacity. The growth expectations of the BRIC countries is worrisome. I recently visited a large beverage company that has three point of sale systems, four customer insights databases, and numerous retailer information sources. Today, we live in volatile times.

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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

Even China imports 34% of its electronic components in producing its information technologies. Moreover, he predicts that local prototyping and mass production could bring about a severe long-term contraction in global shipping, inventories, and warehouses. But I think we do have a responsibility to create jobs.” [2]

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Nike’s Global E-Commerce Distribution Center in Leuven Belgium

NC State SCRC

Numerous scenarios were run, and it was found that a centralized model significantly reduced warehouse and inventory costs, while only marginally increasing total transportation costs, leading to a significant overall savings. A distribution scenario planning ensued that involved understanding the total cost and mix of products.

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