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

Supply Chain View from the Field

In this environment, the supply chain and logistics task becomes even more complex, as it involves delivering and fulfilling product and service support to deliver a lifestyle “vision” around the world. A pull-based supply chain is different – the system recognizes the demand trigger and reacts to it.

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Auditing, visibility and collaboration: The keys to a socially responsible supply chain

Supply Chain View from the Field

In the September issue of the Supply Chain Management Review , Andreas Wieland from Berlin Technical University and I have published a thoughtpiece on the application of social responsible criteria to the supply chain. A program to audit suppliers across multiple tiers of the supply chain is an important first step.

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

Logistics Bureau

Supply chain trends make it yet more complex because they represent the intersections of so many different domains. What is a supply chain trend-spotter to do? A Different Perspective on Business Trends and Supply Chains. Software is Eating Supply Chains. We take a different approach here.

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

Supply Chain View from the Field

What are the metrics used to measure performance is part of the contract terms, especially around on-time service commitments. It took UPS years to develop the China-global electronics market supply chain, and we were not very profitable during the early years. Maybe the pricing is different!

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

Supply Chain View from the Field

Early in the week I sat in on a lecture given by Clay Christenson (from Harvard Business School) to a number of senior supply chain executives at a gathering at the new 7 World Trade Center in New York.

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

Supply Chain Shaman

They will soon change your supply chain. Designed in the 1960s when a Megabyte (MB) of disk storage cost the same as a Terabyte (TB) does today, relational databases form the basis of today’s supply chain systems and IT architectures. Not all supply chain data is transactional in nature.