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When Variability Is Our Only Constant

Supply Chain Shaman

As I spent the time reflecting over the last three weeks, the number of articles streaming into my feed on supply chain implications was high, but most of them were wrong. In the United States, fire activity increased in February and March 2022—fire is not just a California issue. My brain struggles to communicate with my fingers.

Modeling 280
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Meeting Peak Period Labor Challenges Using Collaborative Robots

Locus Robotics

These peak periods bring unique challenges to your fulfillment center, and no other time of the year is more challenging for e-tailers and 3PL’s than the period between Thanksgiving & Christmas. We’ve all experienced the labor challenges of dealing with seasonal peaks: You hire 400 temporary workers, just to keep just 200.

Meeting 40
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Meeting Peak Period Labor Challenges Using Collaborative Robots

Locus Robotics

These peak periods bring unique challenges to your fulfillment center, and no other time of the year is more challenging for e-tailers and 3PL’s than the period between Thanksgiving & Christmas. We’ve all experienced the labor challenges of dealing with seasonal peaks: You hire 400 temporary workers, just to keep just 200.

Meeting 40
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Meeting Peak Period Labor Challenges Using Collaborative Robots

Locus Robotics

These peak periods bring unique challenges to your fulfillment center, and no other time of the year is more challenging for e-tailers and 3PL’s than the period between Thanksgiving & Christmas. We’ve all experienced the labor challenges of dealing with seasonal peaks: You hire 400 temporary workers, just to keep just 200.

Meeting 40
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Meeting Peak Period Labor Challenges Using Collaborative Robots

Locus Robotics

These peak periods bring unique challenges to your fulfillment center, and no other time of the year is more challenging for e-tailers and 3PL’s than the period between Thanksgiving & Christmas. We’ve all experienced the labor challenges of dealing with seasonal peaks: You hire 400 temporary workers, just to keep just 200.

Meeting 40
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Clorox Successfully Implements a Program for Value Chain Segmentation

Supply Chain Shaman

Value Chain segmentation—designing a fit for purpose supply chain—was the focus of the strategy day workshop. At the time, I was a Research Director at AMR Research (now Gartner). At that time, the Company was 1/6th the size of today. I remember the first discussion with Mark and Dave. It was a strategy day in 2006. Reflections.

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A Critical Insight to Successful Supply Chain Planning

Arkieva

In July 1977, having just turned 23 and some graduate classes in operations research and statistics, I joined IBM. The time frame for the first decision tier, strategic planning , is typically driven by the lead time required for business planning, resource acquisition, new product development and introduction, and to produce a product.