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The Power of the Network: ERP vs. Spend Management

Logistics Viewpoints

GEP and the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Supply Chain Resource Cooperative surveyed supply chain, procurement and IT professionals across a range of industries to gain insight into their priorities and strategies regarding supply chain resilience and optimization. Alex Zhong, Director Product Marketing at GEP.

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Better Ways to Address Trade-Offs with Supply Chain Optimization

Logistics Viewpoints

Malcolm McLean, a trucker from North Carolina, was tired of waiting. Analytical techniques like linear programming can create the mathematically “optimal” plan, but these methods must be implemented well to avoid creating other challenges. The myth of the “perfect plan”.

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Beware the Swinging Pendulum on Supply Chain Inventory Practices

Logistics Viewpoints

Concurrent means to “happen at the same time,” so applying this principle to the supply chain, any change, to any input across the supply chain can be considered and evaluated by demand, supply, distribution, capacity, and purchasing; in real-time. A change to one link (e.g. on-time delivery). A change to one link (e.g. on-time delivery).

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Economic Aspects of Supply Chains

American Global Logistics

The cost of U.S. However, there is a need for more precise and comprehensive metrics to understand the full economic impact of supply chains. The supply chain supports an additional 770,000 jobs, comprising 31%, of North Carolina's workforce. Understanding their contribution requires precise metrics and methodologies.

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New Student Projects Suggest Greater Focus on Analytics

Supply Chain View from the Field

The team will assist the Austin’s with a transition plan and identify metrics (and record keeping needed for these metrics) so that the Austin’s and other transitioning dairies have a heightened chance of success as they move from suppliers of raw milk, to small businesses producing finished dairy products for sale.

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Handfield’s Supply Chain Analytics Predictions for 2014

Supply Chain View from the Field

I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. Not surprisingly, analytics is at the top of the list.

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Don’t Wait for Standards Before Moving Closer to Smarter Manufacturing

GlobalTranz

According to Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition , Smart Manufacturing is defined as “integrating network-based data and information that comprises the real-time understanding, reasoning, planning, and management of all aspects of a manufacturing and supply chain enterprise.” So, what is it? download ebook. Enterprise Sustainability.