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Save The Supply Chain Leader From Groupthink

Supply Chain Shaman

Water levels falling in the Rhine, the Loire, and the Colorado River. When it comes to inventory and driving improvement in the face of variability, there are five issues: Poorly Implemented Advanced Planning Solutions. Mature organizations focus on the form and function of inventory and tie the inventory strategy to corporate policy.

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Reverse Logistics – What Happens to Stuff We Return?

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Brick-and-mortar stores also allow shoppers to return unwanted purchases. Dale Rogers, a business professor at Arizona State, gave a presentation with his son Zachary Rogers, a business professor at Colorado State, during which they said that winter-holiday returns in the United States are now worth more than $300 billion a year. “So

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Supply Chain Professional – Protector of Mother Earth

Logility

I care about the environment and do what I can to minimize my impact because living in Beautiful Colorado I benefit from being surrounded by some of Mother Earth’s finest scenery. There is growing evidence that brands that can substantiate eco-friendly policies can charge more for their products.

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Hurricane Season Brings New Risks to Pandemic-stressed Supply Chain Chains

Enterra Insights

Forecasters from the Climate Prediction Center … said that there’s an approximately equal chance of La Niña and ‘ENSO-neutral’ conditions for the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season (August-October), according to Colorado State University meteorologist Phil Klotzbach. ” Footnotes. [1]

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Unboxing the Future: Consumer and Food Packaging Trends in 2024

QAD

Colorado: HB21-1162 took effect on Jan. I do; states are paying closer attention to what goes into packaging and advancing their sustainability and consumer safety initiatives through policy. 1, meaning food retailers can no longer provide single-use plastic bags. These are just a few of many examples, but do you see a theme here?

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Why a Product-Centric Approach to Quality Matters

Arena Solutions

She earned a Master’s in Business Administration from the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder, and is certified by the American Society of Quality as Manager of Quality and Organizational Excellence, and also is a certified medical device auditor. So, there’s generally hardware, software. Catie Jelinski.

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