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What Caused the Baby Formula Shortage + 7 Ways Consumers and Companies are Coping

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Data also shows that half of US states are experiencing out-of-stock rates between 40% and 50%: Image source: Flipboard. Image source: Sturgis Journal. Image source: MTL Blog. Image source: FDA . When still struggling to find formula, parents are calling local food banks for further assistance.

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Why Companies Need a Supplier Relationship Management Strategy

GlobalTranz

Supply chain concepts are generally understood in a linear pattern of consecutive planning in the form of plan-source-make-distribute-return/dispose. Consumers are becoming increasingly more concerned with how their products are manufactured and sourced. Connect your supply chain. Manage working capital.

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How does Crisp detect retail voids?

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Example of a complex decision surface learned by a gradient boosted tree classifier ( Source : Alex Rogozhnikov). As a result, it takes sophisticated analysis to be able to identify what is actually a void. While we enjoy explaining the data science behind void detection, you don’t need to be data savvy to take advantage of it.

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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #5

Supply Chain Trend

Jon: In 1990 I was leading a Booz Allen team launching a start-up division of world’s largest snack food company. We pulled in all a colleague out of our Cleveland office “Don” (a near retirement manufacturing expert) for some additional perspective. Niels: Can you describe your first involvement in S&OP?

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