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FMCG Supply Chain Communication, Gobbledygook & BS Bingo

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

Nevertheless, we continue to stride ahead of our markets vectored by ground-breaking innovations in premium categories. Long term market sustainability investments have taken our top brands into the “sleeping giant” BRIC territories and other potential profit rich, atlas white spaces.

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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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Innovation Leadership in the Middle of Organization Change at Biogen

NC State SCRC

I spent the day at Biogen’s headquarters in Cambridge, MA today, with a group of executives sharing ideas on how to drive innovation. The executives in the meeting today were all managers from different parts of the organization, who had been challenged to drive innovative approaches in Biogen’s business models.

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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.

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

Supply Chain View from the Field

Sitting on a clear day with a 360 view of Ground Zero and the New York skyline, Clay shared with us some of his thoughts on the role of innovation and what he called the “Church of New Finance” in the current economic downturn we are struggling to get our way out of.

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Collaboration: The New Battle Cry of Supply Chain

Supply Chain Network

Take for example the BRIC nations and the impact this region has across the global economy. In fact, all of the BRIC countries are now in the top 10 economies, with Brazil at 9, Russia at 6, India at 4 and China 2nd. China surpassed Japan in 2010 as the world’s second largest economy, and the IMF predict it could exceed the U.S.

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“The Procurement Value Proposition”: Guest Post by Gerard Chick Part 1

Supply Chain View from the Field

Have decades of outsourcing and downsizing drained our ability to innovate, grow and prosper; and if so then what can we do about it? BRIC Supply Chain Business Process Outsourcing Category Management Global Supply Chain Procure to Pay Strategic Sourcing Supplier Relationship Management'