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Why It Matters

Supply Chain Shaman

Both companies provide packaging materials to the food manufacturing industry. Their goal was to visualize excess capacity and make it available to enable their sales teams to offer upstream opportunities to their clients. Food manufacturers, over the course of the last decade, have pushed costs and waste backwards in the supply chain.

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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. I split this off from global sourcing because we had plenty of buyers but not enough planning and logistics so service and documentation was failing. With a price tag of $2.1

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Applying Porter Five Forces Analysis to Drive Category Management Insights

Supply Chain View from the Field

A typical approach is to provide an overview of these data to the team, and use this as a basis for an open and frank discussion in a workshop format with the stakeholders. During this workshop, the goal should be to list relevant criteria for each of the five forces as a basis for stimulating critical thinking and debate.

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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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11 Tips to Take Your Supply Chain Career to the Next Level

SCMDOJO

Embrace continuous learning by staying informed about industry advancements, reading publications, attending workshops, and pursuing additional certifications. Successfully managing projects showcases your capacity to bring about positive change within the organization. Take your time exploring career paths before committing.

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The things we’ve seen, in 2019

DELMIA Quintiq

Through the acquisition of IQMS , we extended the 3D EXPERIENCE platform to small and midsized manufacturing companies seeking to digitally transform their business operations. We shared a lot of their stories this year: including IMC Toys , Spark Racing Technology and the European Spallation Source (ESS) to mention just a few.

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When Variability Is Our Only Constant

Supply Chain Shaman

” Corporations serve international markets, and the source of rare minerals (so critical for the evolution of the green supply chain) is primarily Asia. Others argue the demise of global sourcing; might I add caution? Still, the manufacturing plants and distribution centers are closed. My response is “Hogwash.”

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