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Supply Chain Resilience. Really?

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, I speak at the North American Manufacturing Association, Manufacturing Leadership Conference, in Nashville on the use of data to improve supply chain resilience. Maximize the value of the purchase order flow data already in the existing networks. (A A purchase order changes many times and needs synchronization.

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How Food Manufacturing Software Drives Profit [w Case Studies]

Unleashed

This is particularly true in the food manufacturing industry, which characteristically has a high volume of products stored, and an urgent need to fill existing client orders to match ongoing consumer demand. Good food manufacturing software provides a means to track inventory in real-time, through every step of the supply chain.

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How To Jump

Supply Chain Shaman

This week, I was at Informs Analytics Conference. Can we build collaborative platforms for role-based discussions across commercial (sales and marketing) and operations (manufacturing, logistics, and purchasing) teams? Demand latency is the time to translate the purchase in the channel to an order.) Faster and Better Engines.

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Who Should Be In The Winner’s Circle?

Supply Chain Shaman

On a cold Boston winter day, I slipped into my seat on a back row in a packed conference room at AMR Research. As I squeezed into the middle seat of a crowded conference room, I got the stare. When Gartner purchased AMR Research in December 2009, the methodology became the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25.

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Help Supply Chain Planners Be More Successful In These Uncertain Times

Supply Chain Shaman

As I poured the dog food into the bowl for my pups, I wondered if I was going to have to switch kibble due to the looming issues of sourcing taurine—a health additive in many pet foods. As I shopped at Best Buy for office supplies, I struggled to not think about the massive disruption of electronics supply chain. The reason?

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Power Your Business Sustainably Through Solar Energy

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

At the COP26 climate conference in 2021, more than 1,000 companies committed to adopt targets to reduce emissions in line with the Paris Agreement goals. Another client of Sembcorp is Soo Eng Joo Frozen Food. “ Your Questions Answered: What is a power purchase agreement?

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Getting Down to Brass Tacks: Can We Really Collaborate?

Supply Chain Shaman

This trend spawned chains like Trader Joes, Walmart, Whole Foods, etc. Consumers want to shop anywhere, and buy in the way that they want to buy. Each year I go to the Consumer Goods and Technology (CGT) conference where speaker-after-speaker talks about retail/supplier collaboration. I am a disbeliever.