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Supply Chain as a Service (SCaaS): A Golden Opportunity for the Supply Chain Industry

SCMDOJO

While implementing SCaaS poses challenges, it has demonstrated its effectiveness across industries, fostering company growth, cost reduction, and leveraging cutting-edge technology. allowing them to shift their focus towards core activities like market share and product management. SCaaS offers a strategic impact on business.

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My Take: Let’s Admit Seven Demand Management Mistakes of the Last Decade

Supply Chain Shaman

After two decades of process and technology refinement, excellence in demand management still eludes supply chain teams. In our research at Supply Chain Insights, we find that demand planning is the most misunderstood of any supply chain planning application. Supply Chain Management (SCM) concepts are now thirty-years old.

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Fueling Success: Career in Supply Chain Guide

SCMDOJO

It’s a fast-paced, evolving industry that has a lot of challenges, but also plenty of rewards, including a potentially lucrative income. We enable them by providing high-quality supply chain on-demand courses, guides, best practices, tools, and mentoring from industry experts.

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What Value Are You Getting From Planning?

Supply Chain Shaman

In my opinion, in this journey, industry analysts and consultants were complicit. The industry does not have a definition. Spiraling transportation costs, tariff shifts and increased expectations for customer service sparks new interest in supply chain planning. No one held the technology providers responsible.

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How to Get a Job in the Supply Chain Sector

Logistics Bureau

While this article is intended as an evergreen resource, to help you navigate in your search for a supply chain job, and is not a COVID-19-specific guide, the pandemic has galvanized attention on the industry and its criticality. Why Choose a Job in the Supply Chain Industry? It’s a constantly-changing, ever-expanding industry.

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The Supply Chain Construct for New and Growing Businesses!

Supply Chain Game Changer

logistics, transportation) they often aren’t the subject matter experts in this area. Suppliers for all materials and services have to be found, vetted, negotiated with, qualified, ramped up, tracked, managed, kept competitive and governed. That is the purview of Procurement. Even if it a Supply Chain type of business (eg.

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My Take: E2open Buys Terra Technology

Supply Chain Shaman

Over the last decade the use of Terra Technology’s DS product improved short-term demand forecasts by 37% at 13 consumer products, and food and beverage companies. In 2007-2014 Terra added inventory management, multi-tier demand sensing, transportation forecasting, and long-term forecasting. It is a new buyer.