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Supply Chain Planning Software Vendor Selection: What they Won’t Tell You

Logility

A successful relationship with your vendor can last many years so companies may embark on supply chain planning implementations once every 10-15 years – or longer. Apart from the supply chain, operations, procurement and IT teams, also consider sales operations, finance and more. They’re also how you will hold one another accountable.

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My Biggest Mistake: Inventory Levels are the Thermometer for the Management of the Company

Arkieva

As a Phd in inventory optimization, I’ve started my supply chain career in adjusting inventory parameters with surgical precision. Calculating inventory parameters, using Linear Programming to optimize planning. This week I had a workshop where we made a fishbone diagram of what drives excess inventory and/or stock-outs.

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Why It Matters

Supply Chain Shaman

As I work with companies, I often contrast the strategies, approaches and outcomes within a peer group. Over the last five years, I have helped two companies, Sonoco Products and Owens Illinois (OI) with their selection of technologies to improve Sales and Operations (S&OP) planning. The companies are similar in size.

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Optimizing Liberty Global’s Supply Chain: An Interview with Willem Vesters

AIMMS

Liberty Global is the world’s largest international TV and broadband company with operations in more than 30 countries. The company started working with AIMMS and our implementation partner Districon in October 2015 to develop a Demand Aggregation tool. If you’re still in denial as a company, you can’t improve.”

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Top 10 Best Supply Chain Job Boards

SCMDOJO

National Association of Educational Procurement. It is essentially a python based web scrapper with many sites in the database and brings the latest supply chain jobs posted by companies. You can find great interviews and inside looks at companies, the ability to compare salaries and benefits, and general information on all positions.

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Optimizing Liberty Global’s Supply Chain: An Interview with Willem Vesters

AIMMS

Liberty Global is the world’s largest international TV and broadband company with operations in more than 30 countries. The company started working with AIMMS and our implementation partner Districon in October 2015 to develop a Demand Aggregation tool. If you’re still in denial as a company, you can’t improve. This is step 1.

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6 Tips for Students to Develop a Career in the Supply Chain

SCMDOJO

Pursuing a degree in these areas will equip you with the fundamental knowledge of supply chain principles, such as procurement, inventory management, logistics, and operations strategy. Get Familiar with WMS : Explore warehouse management systems to understand how they enhance inventory tracking and improve order fulfillment.