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Unilever Supply Chain: Lessons Learned on Digital Transformation

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From the leftover Ben & Jerry’s in your freezer to the travel-size Dove lotion abandoned somewhere at the bottom of your toiletry bag, the business responsible for these familiar household staples is the multinational consumer goods company, Unilever. This insight helps Unilever understand who’s sourcing from whom.

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Arkieva Supply Chain Scope: As Ecommerce Businesses Boom, Distribution Center Availability Becomes Scarce

Arkieva

While demand seems to be on an uptick for manufacturers especially in the consumer goods industry, an increase in online shopping could also lead to a scarcity in the availability of distribution centers in the near future. in 2015, of which 50% to 75% comprised warehouses. Source: Multichannel Merchant.

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Three Reasons Why I Love Hadoop, and You Should Too!

Supply Chain Shaman

Hadoop is an open-source software framework written in Java for distributed storage and processing of large data sets on computer clusters. I recently visited a large beverage company that has three point of sale systems, four customer insights databases, and numerous retailer information sources. The data is not moved. (In

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Top 10 supply chain trends for 2020

Requis

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. If they sold off just 5% per year, that would create 9.45% in free cash, not including the savings on warehousing costs. trillion counterfeit market ($2.3

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Will the Downturn Signal an Upturn?

Supply Chain Shaman

To accomplish this, it is critical to develop collaborative workflows is essential, and the use of channel data helps to see the flows from the channel partners warehouse to the point of purchase. In between writing and training, Lora is actively doing tendu (s) and Dégagé (s) to dome her feet for pointe work at the ballet barre.

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ERP vs CRM: Key Differences and Benefits

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Retail and Consumer Goods. Customer information funnels into a business through a variety of different sources, including sales phone calls, marketing forms, emails, social media networks, customer support calls, website chats and external sales meetings. Warehouse & Inventory Management. Electronics and Technology.

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See Through Disruptions: How Supply Chain Visibility Builds Resilience

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For example, one production company mapped their second tier of suppliers and realized that all of their strategic suppliers for a particular direct material sourced some components from a single production site, making them dependent on one source. It demonstrates due diligence and accountability in the supply chain.