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Your supply chain is costing you money – Reason #10 Failure to adequately train your supply chain planning staff

Kinaxis

Reason #6 Not effectively managing inventory. Reason #7 Making decisions based on bad data (supply chain data accuracy). A bad decision can result in missed orders, significant inventory, or scrapped materials. It might be a programmatic error but more likely it is caused by bad data. Do you do it?

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6 Tips for Students to Develop a Career in the Supply Chain

SCMDOJO

Pursuing a degree in these areas will equip you with the fundamental knowledge of supply chain principles, such as procurement, inventory management, logistics, and operations strategy. Plus, the knack for sifting through heaps of data, spotting trends, and developing solutions that keep things running sets the best apart.

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Integrated Supply Chain Planning – The Number 1 Opportunity

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

planning, sourcing, manufacturing, etc.) So we held a workshop. distributor) data was formally integrated into the primary supply chain processes, there will be significant benefit for our client (the producer) and their distributors. The key to this is data. Our conclusion? If customer (e.g.

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Podcast: Rob Handfield on Suppliers, Data, Tech, and Talent

Requis

He is a consultant to Fortune 500 companies and US federal agencies, and a speaker with focus on the fields of strategic sourcing, supply market intelligence, and supplier development. On every screen there were moving graphical visualizations of material inventory. The next step is to look at the data. The data tells the story.

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o9 Solutions and Supply Chain Insights With LKQ Europe Reveal Significant Supply Chain Planning Improvements Following the First-Ever Pilot to Test Outside-In Planning

o9 Solutions

Co-founded by o9 and Supply Chain Insights, Project Zebra is an open-source industry effort to define and activate outside-in processes to prove the value of outside-in supply chain planning processes. The results of the pilot far exceeded LKQ Europe’s expectations. The results of the pilot far exceeded LKQ Europe’s expectations.

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Brexit: 5 Things Supply Chain Leaders Should Consider to Prepare for its Impact

AIMMS

Specifically, I will explore how Prescriptive Analytics can help you improve decision-making and make data actionable in an increasingly volatile economic landscape, instead of only providing insight into your data’s behavior. Do you need to set up new inventory locations? How will it impact your route to consumer ?

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How ERP enables traceability in the automotive parts and accessories industry

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

When manufacturers have to recall vehicles to workshops, they can certainly expect media attention. All this data can be accumulated and combined into a barcode and marked on the part. In the past Toyota had to recall 2.9