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

Kinaxis

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

This end-to-end focus allows EMC to manage the end customer environment, using manufacturing results to predict customer installed product events, and EMC pre-event resolutions. Seagate: it took a big external event, the Thailand floods, to force Seagate to an end-to-end strategy.

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

Bristlecone

Consider making demand management improvements. Be prepared for fluctuations in demand. Some consumer products are seeing lower-than-expected demand, while demand for cleansers, paper goods and personal care products have skyrocketed. Review current inventory numbers; plan to repurpose inventories where possible.

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Supply Chain Management:The Upcoming 2011 Holiday Buying.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Overall,retailers performed a decent job in forecasting holiday demand,managing promotions and overall inventory in the 2010 season. Retailers themselves have shifted more investments toward their online presence.As What therefore should retailers expect in the upcoming 2011 season?