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This Week in Logistics News (July 6 – 12)

Logistics Viewpoints

For example, the grocer released its first report on corporate social responsibility efforts last year. Lidl also shared that it had identified 11 critical raw materials and committed to setting responsible sourcing targets for each group of items. But the WWF is now the WWE, and this is a different kind of partnership.

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Guest Commentary: P.O. Management Programs – Know Pain, Know Gain!

Talking Logistics

What is this going to cost? You could answer them with a purchase order (P.O.) Your stakeholders can: Align sourcing, purchasing, logistics, and I.T. Understand technology, information, and reporting tools and how to use them in the business. Sourcing uses P.O. Why is it late? When will it get here?

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Supply and demand production challenges with new products

Kinaxis

The master production schedule suffers from very intense and short term production schedule variations and purchased materials unavailability. Alternative sources for parts. The TKR is calculated as follow: TKR i =MC i /DC i [1]. So when a new product is introduced, how can supply chains re-align supply and demand? 9, 2010.

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What Retailers are Saying About Tariffs - Part 5

Cathy Roberson

The topic/report will be on the logistics M&A so far this year. The report will be available free for paid Substack subscribers but I’ll provide a summary and a link to the report in case you’re interested in either purchasing it separately or paying for an anuual subscribtion to my Substack articles.

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Relieving Consumer Pain Points on the Digital Path to Purchase

Enterra Insights

As Tom Standage ( @tomstandage ), editor of The Economist ‘s ‘ The World in 2021 ‘, reminds us, the digital path to purchase is increasingly becoming the customer journey of choice. ”[2] Were that survey conducted today, I suspect an even larger number of consumers would report losing confidence in the supply chain.

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The Amazon Revolution, Part II: Tuning Your Multichannel Supply Chain to Compete

ToolsGroup

Today’s blog analyzes how to compete in this multichannel environment that requires serving the customer in ways that remove the barriers that make consumers think twice about making the purchase. And Gartner reports that more than half of supply chain executives say they are increasing their investment in analytics and smarter algorithms.

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Supply Chain Case Study: the Executive's Guide

Supply Chain Opz

There are two things Boeing and Airbus have in common, utilization of lean manufacturing system and strategic sourcing concept. However, the overall implementation of strategic sourcing is a bit different between the two companies. Cost of inbound logistics is not taken into account.