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Sourcing Offices: a shift of paradigm

KEPLER Consulting

Over last decade, sourcing offices became a major piece within globalized footprint of western retailers. 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.

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The Virtual Twin Experience: How to Use it for Maximum Benefit

DELMIA Quintiq

This could mean reducing fuel consumption, machine CO 2 emissions, or transitioning their energy to hybrid, electric or hydrogen sources. This can enable you to simulate and optimize physical space and line layouts, workshop operations, and robot operations. Supply Chain Instability. Cut product development lead time in half.

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The Best Time to Kick Off a Continuous Improvement Initiative

synchrono

For example, instead of focusing on removing waste in our factories to become more cost competitive, we might opt to add capacity so we can keep up with demand. Humans are not always the most objective source of “data.”. In this scenario, the machinist does some reading on Lean and attends a few workshops during his downtime.

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Stord Launches Stord One Commerce To Help Brands Connect, Orchestrate, and Optimize Their Supply Chains

Stord

Stord One Commerce does this via four fully-featured software components: Visibility: Delivers unparalleled visibility into orders, inventory, and shipments supported with extensive operational metrics and dashboards. with a new investment led by Franklin Templeton.To learn more about Stord's Cloud Supply Chain approach, visit stord.com.

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Supply Chain Isn’t for the Faint of Heart

Elementum

According to reports, 57% of US companies experienced an average of 2x longer lead times for components sourced from their tier-1 suppliers in China. These unprecedented backups came from two sources. As a result, inventories rapidly evaporated causing companies to place massive orders in an effort to resupply.

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23 logistics professionals share the #1 way to reduce logistics costs

6 River Systems

We follow a stringent procedure to organize inventory in our warehouses. This approach tends to lead to a quicker and easier supply chain with inventory in transit for only a few days compared to a month’s inventory in an ocean container, and then another two to three weeks to clear customs. Efficient warehouse operations.

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10 key trends to understand Supply Chain Management

KEPLER Consulting

Sources: 1: Global Survey, Mc Kinsey, 2010/ 2: Supply Chain Impact Survey, Cap Gemini, 2013/ 3: Future of Supply Chain, SCM World, 2016. #2 Sources: 1: Future of Supply Chain, SCM World, 2016 /2: Global Supply Chain Survey, PwC, 2013 / 3: Supply Chain Impact Survey, Cap Gemini, 2013. #3 TRANSFORMATION AXIS. #4