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Help Supply Chain Planners Be More Successful In These Uncertain Times

Supply Chain Shaman

As I flew to Dallas, I worked on this post. As I shopped at Best Buy for office supplies, I struggled to not think about the massive disruption of electronics supply chain. Less than 10% of supply chain business leaders completed formal supply chain training, yet, all believe that they know the definition of supply chain excellence.

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The Impact of Collaborative TMS on Supply Chains Bottom Line

Turvo

It is a new shipper-carrier collaboration approach to enhance supply chain visibility, reducing transit times, and inventory-carrying costs for retailers and suppliers while improving carrier asset utilization levels. . As a result, there is often excessive inventory and under-utilized carrier capacity. It saves time and labor hours.

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Looking Beyond Red Arrows

Supply Chain Shaman

As a result, supply chain leaders focus on unrealistic goals of inventory or costs, they will throw the system out of balance. However, the stories of success are largely project improvements or improvements in vertical supply chain efficiency in manufacturing or transportation. Growth in car buying stimulated the value chain.