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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. I am currently doing research on inventory management. In the research, I ask inventory planners to define resilience. Think this is possible? Yes, I think so.

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Key Insights from NRF 2024: Navigating the Future of Retail

ToolsGroup

Last year witnessed a considerable impact on retailers’ profits attributed to shrink, commonly recognized as lost inventory. The imperative of implementing a comprehensive process to ensure full visibility into inventory has become more paramount than ever before.

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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

One of the goals of the conference was to challenge the audience to redefine work. Net/net, the current architectures are hard-wired into back-office Information Technology deployments with layers of security and integration, and batch processing. At the end of the presentation, I asked Allyson her perspective on open source analytics.

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Supply Chain Leaders Prepare For The Long Haul. Caution: It Will Be Gray.

Supply Chain Shaman

This type of success gave my generation a false sense of security. Supply chain management as a discipline—a set of flows combining the processes of source, make and deliver together to drive value– is relatively new. How did the changing mix of the orders shipped change inventory buffers at suppliers? Drive Insights.

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6 Manufacturing Trends You Need to Know

Arena Solutions

alone, colleges and universities awarded 83,263 bachelor’s degrees in engineering in 2012, a 37% increase over the 60,605 degrees conferred in 2002. Manufacturers are leveraging big data to provide them with a comprehensive picture of their business thanks to the ability to acquire information from an ever-increasing variety of sources.

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How to Secure Your First Supply Chain or Logistics Job

Logistics Bureau

Source: Deloitte Report – The Future of Work. You’ll find some of those quick-career-launching jobs below, along with an overview of the qualifications that will help you secure them. The duties and responsibilities of a Supply Chain Analyst can include: Assisting with inventory management. Inventory Controller/Manager.

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Top 5 KPIs for Purchasing Managers

Precoro

At the heart of the whole process is the purchasing manager – a supply chain and logistics professional who works to secure the required materials, goods, and services necessary for running the business. Inventory Management Efficiency This is an evaluation of how efficiently the purchasing team maintains the right level of inventory.