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Elephant in the Room: Thoughts on Metrics That Matter in Semiconductor and Hard Disk Drives

Kinaxis

Understanding inventory planning will take on a new dynamic. Reliance on suppliers beyond the US borders has extended the length of the supply chain, and opened it up to significantly more risk, as demonstrated by the impact of the Thailand flooding on both the Semiconductor and HDD segments. Supply Chain Length. Growing Complexity.

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Top 15 Supply Chains to Admire from the Supply Chain Insights Conference

Kinaxis

While other “lists” use ROA, Inventory Turns and Revenue Growth, I find Lora’s science very objective. She is analyzing growth, inventory turns, operating margin, and return on invested capital, performance and improvement over time. . “ The panel discussed the Top 15 Supply Chains we Admire, as built off the Supply Chain Index.

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Supply Chain Management:The Upcoming 2011 Holiday Buying.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

The state of product demand planning and inventory management among retailers becoming more advanced. Overall,retailers performed a decent job in forecasting holiday demand,managing promotions and overall inventory in the 2010 season. What therefore should retailers expect in the upcoming 2011 season?

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6 WAYS TO MITIGATE COVID-19’S IMPACT ON YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN

Bristlecone

Increasingly, businesses are driven by the need to improve productivity, minimize costs, reduce inventory and drive up asset utilization. Super-efficient supply chains with accurate forecasting and well-managed inventories worked fine until the virus hit us. Take a close look at inventory management policies.