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Seasoned Leadership in Action! An Interview with Paul Kretz, Head of SCM at Church & Dwight!

Supply Chain Game Changer

And the operation had been run without true Warehouse Management experience as well. The other person seemed overwhelmed and lost while looking at the mess in the warehouse. I was going to move to the States when the leadership team asked me to run the Canadian warehouse. They used to call it seagull logistics.

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Inside Johnson & Johnson’s Supply Chain Operations

RFgen

Founded in 1886 with just 14 employees, it now provides global solutions for pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and consumer goods. Because supply chain management (SCM) is so crucial to the quality of the products it produces, Johnson & Johnson has deliberately made SCM a core focus of their business.

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Logistics Industry’s Slow Economic Comeback Continues in Spite of Challenges

Supply Chain Network

The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) released its 22nd “Annual State of Logistics Report®,” presented by Penske Logistics, today at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. The report reveals that business logistics costs rose to 8.3 business logistics system jumped up 10.4

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Top 10 supply chain trends for 2020

Requis

According to CBInsights, investment in supply chain and logistics startups has been rising since 2014, and enjoyed a 70% increase in 2016 vs 2015 alone. Heavy industry pays a lot of money to warehouse unused assets that could be sold to other enterprises dealing with similar projects, smaller players, or even back to original OEMs.

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Seasoned Leadership in Action™! An Interview with Michael Massetti, VP at Gartner!

Supply Chain Game Changer

It was not until later in the 1980s that the loose federation between planning, purchasing, manufacturing, and logistics started coming together as an end-to-end entity called supply chain. It’s exciting to solve a consumer goods need with something that worked for a chemical company. What You Need to Know! All Rights Reserved.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 5-9, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Moving on to the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week… Mercedes-Benz and Matternet unveil vans that launch delivery drones (TechCrunch). Moving on to software news, Oracle announced that it is acquiring LogFire, a provider of cloud-based warehouse management applications. I’m rooting for love.

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The New JDA Flowcasting Solution

BlueYonder

We’ve gone through several iterations of how to effectively balance supply and demand in the retail/consumer goods supply chain. Historically, a consumer goods firm did forecasting based upon historical shipments. Various forms of retail/consumer goods forecast collaboration have emerged to help cure the disease.