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The VF Corporation Invested in Supply Chain Agility Before COVID Made “Agility” the New Buzzword

Logistics Viewpoints

Mr. Bailey has worked most of his career at VF – as an industrial engineer in facilities, in strategic sourcing, running offshore operations, and now as the person in charge of the company’s entire supply chain. VFC’s supply chain sourced over 410 million units of apparel, footwear, and accessories in their last fiscal year.

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SCRC Partner Profile: A Textbook Transformation at Biogen-Idec

Supply Chain View from the Field

Although strategic sourcing capabilities are well established in industries ranging from automotive to electronics, they are still in the formative stages in the biotechnology sector. In the last several years, the company has undergone a huge shift in the way it operates its supply chain, particularly in the management of sourcing.

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Supply Chain Leadership Series IV: Joydeep Ganguly – Passionate About Sustainable Supply Chains

NC State SCRC

Prior to Gilead, Joydeep spent 10 years at Biogen, in roles of increasing responsibility in the areas of process sciences, manufacturing and supply chain. Number 1 : I was and remain naturally curious – about the industry, emerging trends and sources of value. frameworks are one such strategy.

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Top 5 Aerospace Supply Chain Disruptions of 2023

Resilinc

This exclusive data comes from EventWatch AI , Resilinc’s 24/7 AI-powered, global event monitoring platform, which collects information and monitors news on 400 different types of disruptions across 104 million global sources. The fire started when a small piece of Styrofoam the company manufacturers caught fire in an oven.

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The Impact of the Digital Path to Purchase

Enterra Insights

Howard Yu ( @HowardHYu ), the LEGO professor of management and innovation at the IMD business school in Switzerland, bluntly states, “No industry is failing faster than retail. To succeed, retailers and manufacturers need to understand what consumers want, how they want to purchase it, and where they want to accept delivery.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Revenue data is sourced from the companies’ websites and market research platforms such as Macrotrends. Revenue: $21.054 billion (12 months ending March 31, 2020), $21.231 (2019) Headquarters: Schindellegi, Switzerland CEO: Detlef Trefzger 5. billion (2019) Headquarters: Baar, Switzerland CEO: Mathieu Friedberg 16. Revenue: $7.1