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Jaro Caban: “Establishing S&OP is a challenging journey”

Supply Chain Movement

It consolidated Cargill’s global animal feed production and strengthened its internal supply chain capacity for food production and processing. Their mission is to work with our many global buyers, collectively known as Risk Management and Sourcing (RMS), to streamline the buying, planning and logistics. With a price tag of $2.1

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Five Customer Product Segmentation Pitfalls to Avoid

Arkieva

But when production capacity came under pressure, the company really missed also having product segmentation to support rational decision-making. A lack of buy-in from sales. Gaining buy-in from sales will eventually drive revenue growth. A lack of strategic input. Segmentation is a strategic exercise.

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Marion Kohlmeier: ‘Expansion in our global footprint has been a big step’

Supply Chain Movement

In this edition: Marion Kohlmeier, Head of supply chain planning and project purchasing at Weidmann Plastics Technology. Weidmann Plastics Technology is part of the Techniplas Group and I am responsible for three teams: Logistics planning; pre-series scheduling; and project purchasing. The third team is project purchasing.

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Sourcing Offices: a shift of paradigm

KEPLER Consulting

After a first era of development and opportunity catch up particularly positive and characterized by consistent purchasing gains , most of these Sourcing Offices are now searching for their second breath. Strategic actions like Purchasing Strategy definition or Negotiation preparation are not correctly documented.

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When Variability Is Our Only Constant

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply outstripped material and logistics capacities in the pandemic, yet we did not alter traditional practices to sense and drive a better response. Ukraine currently provides nearly 70 percent of the world’s neon gas capacity.) Over 93% of companies use Excel Spreadsheets to develop their plans. There was no new normal.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

It includes free shipping of online purchases, free grocery deliveries to the home for orders of at least $35, prescription discounts and other benefits. XPO Logistics launched a Ship Net-Zero program, giving shippers the option to purchase carbon credits to offset emissions from shipments. Walmart+ costs $98 per year, or $12.95

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What Does it Take to be a Successful Entrepreneur? The Incredible Journey of a Last Mile Pioneer

Logistics Viewpoints

And they said, ‘Excellent very glad to do it. So, we buy diapers from them, we have them delivered to us, we rebrand them, and because of the cadence we adjusted our business model to be a subscription-based diaper ordering business. So, we outsourced the delivery capacity too incumbent courier companies. Absolutely not!