Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Steve described his experience this afternoon over pizza and sodas in Detroit. I was involved in inventory control area on what they used to call “residual parts”, which were leftover parts that you ended up trying to sell into the service parts organization. They would bid and source only part at a time!

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Resilinc

JANUARY 18, 2022

spokesperson noted that beating GM was “not our goal, nor do we see it as sustainable,” the change in ranking is widely seen as a vindication of Toyota’s supply chain strategies. But the efficiency benefits were so compelling that eventually “every car maker from Detroit to Wolfsburg adopted a version” of the Toyota system.

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Resilinc

JANUARY 17, 2022

While Toyota was careful not to gloat, the change in ranking is widely seen as a vindication of Toyota’s supply chain strategies. Toyota’s competitive edge in supply chains was developed over a decade as it focused more on risk management and security of supply and less on efficiency and minimizing inventory costs.

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DynaSys

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Says speaker Josh Linkner, jazz guitarist and founder of digital promotions company ePrize (now HelloWorld) and Detroit Venture Partners. However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” The forecast does not end with the strategy presentation and implementation. Gartner’s Sr.

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TMC

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The trade-offs are especially critical for destinations in a “battleground” region that stretches from Detroit in the north to Houston in the south. For example, a higher cost could be part of a strategy to win market share and align product transportation with that mission. Is your supply chain make-to-order, make-to-stock, or both?

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 26, 2016

Often companies put together a strategy based on localized, tactical objectives. That’s the kind of information that can influence a company’s decision on going into a market, staying in a market, where to source inventory from, which suppliers to work with, etc. Consider the bigger picture. What does it mean to finance?

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Yet all of the functions that we now associate with Supply Chain have been around for a very long time: Planning, Inventory Management, Logistics, Procurement and Purchasing, Warehousing and many more.”[2] To make that point, Mortson lists ten different definitions for the term from various sources. Calculate key considerations.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Background The UAW has elected a two-fold strategy. big three automakers with implications to their supply networks vs. prior strategies in targeting just one. In this third Supply Chain Matters reader update, we highlight the ongoing supply chain and manufacturing implications of the labor strike involving the three U.S.

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