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Is the “Autonomous Supply Chain” a Pipe Dream?

Logistics Viewpoints

This is combined with data from external sources on weather, logistics lead times, and sustainability performance. They are designed to have minimal impact on the performance of the underlying source systems. Aera is using data crawlers to crawl across billions of rows of transactional data on a monthly basis.

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The VF Corporation Invested in Supply Chain Agility Before COVID Made “Agility” the New Buzzword

Logistics Viewpoints

Bailey has worked most of his career at VF – as an industrial engineer in facilities, in strategic sourcing, running offshore operations, and now as the person in charge of the company’s entire supply chain. VF Corporation (VFC) is a global apparel, footwear and accessories company headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

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Study Shows Two-Thirds of Companies Yet to Execute Digital Transformation in Supply Chain Planning

ToolsGroup

Our services help clients develop the right supply chain strategy for their business challenges and implement the process and technology solutions to improve Demand/Supply Planning, Procurement and Sourcing, Logistics and Warehousing, and Reverse Logistics business performance.

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30 Supply Chain Leaders Under 30—Class of 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

She has already served in an international procurement management program with Volkswagen and built a procurement department from scratch with Porsche Design. She is now part of J&J's capital, construction and facilities services global procurement team for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Media Type. Privacy Settings.

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The Best Supply Chain Company You Have Never Heard Of

Logistics Viewpoints

The company sources goods from 34,000 suppliers out of 30 nations. Process is a very big topic, but two sets of processes are worth mentioning in more detail are Ferguson’s sourcing and global trade compliance processes. Lead times expanded even for domestic manufacturers because they sourced raw materials from overseas.

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Are You Afraid that Stakeholders Will Think You Are a Dummy if You Ask Too Many Questions?

EC Sourcing Group

If you want stakeholders to buy in to your procurement process you may need to ask some “dumb” questions. Why would you fly to Denver to make a sales presentation when the participants are scattered across the US or the world? These companies contacted me about sourcing, workflow and contract management tools. Because it works.