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Who Should Be In The Winner’s Circle?

Supply Chain Shaman

When Gartner purchased AMR Research in December 2009, the methodology became the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25. The methodology did not include a peer group analysis, and I strongly felt that chemical, retail, and telecommunications companies should not be compared in the same analysis. The result? The reason? Is this leadership?

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Insights from Elemica reveal 2014 Frankfurt

Talking Logistics

Several customers addressed those questions in excellent case study presentations: Dr. Bernhard Herzog, Oxea GmbH – “Business Impact of a Supply Chain Operating Network”. Herman Woltjes, Shell Chemicals – “Logistics Execution”. Ralf Kahre and Patrick Gött, BASF – “End-to-End Business Process Management”. Fast and effective roll out.

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Transforming Consumer Value Chains: Navigating The Power Shift to the Shopper

Supply Chain Shaman

Customers are buying less. The days of going to a brick and mortar store to buy product is only one of the ways that people want to buy. The days of going to a brick and mortar store to buy product is only one of the ways that people want to buy. With the dawn of eCommerce, companies must now ship the EACH.

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Will the Downturn Signal an Upturn?

Supply Chain Shaman

They wanted to know, “ How was the market affecting the chemical supply chain?” DuPont as a chemical supplier to the market sits four-to-five levels back in the supply chain with extreme demand latency (about six months) and high volatility of the true market demand signal due to the bullwhip effect. Why is this important?

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When Variability Is Our Only Constant

Supply Chain Shaman

Major petrochemicals—including ethylene, propylene, acetylene, benzene, and toluene, and natural gas constituents like methane, propane, and ethane—are the feedstock chemicals for the production of many of the items we use and depend on every day. . A journey from China to Europe that takes 40 days by ship takes 15 days by rail.

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How Microsoft & ThroughPut are helping Global Manufacturers increase Output during the COVID-19 Pandemic, and how every Operations Professional can help

ThroughPut

As a chemical engineer with a background in biotechnology, oil & gas, and supply chain, I have had my pick of flow problems to solve. Customers can store their data at almost every manufacturing facility in the world, and they have Excel, PowerBI and Azure in the hands of many production teams. Right now, every little bit matters.

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28 supply chain professionals share the biggest challenges of supply chain management

6 River Systems

“Currently, the biggest challenge for supply chain managers is…” Keeping up with consumers and their buying behaviors. For example, a certain product is ready to be shipped from the manufacturing facility. She is now an Editor at Aggregage for the site Supply Chain Brief.