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[Video] Procurement in the Digital Age

Talking Logistics

Brian Reed, VP Global Supply Chain Optimization at GEODIS, discusses procurement in the digital age. Podcast version (click to play): The post [Video] Procurement in the Digital Age appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. Brian Reed, VP Global Supply Chain Optimization at GEODIS, discusses procurement in the digital age.

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Customers Do Not Care About Your Problems!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. 5 Best Practices in Omnichannel Customer Service! . “The system is down. We can’t ship any customer orders. We’re not sure when the system will be back up again.” Coming into the Holidays, the busiest time of the year, that is the last thing that I wanted to hear.

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Supply Chain News on As Micro Fulfillment Systems Gain Traction, Walmart Gives Technolog a Test

Supply Chain Digest

Picking Speeds are much Higher with New System, but Headcount at Walmart has thus Far has not Dropped

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Creating a High Performance Organization! (Infographic)

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Cash Is King! Creating a Culture Focused on Money Management. . We have written many blog posts about Change Leadership and Culture Change. At its core the overall objective is creating a High Performance Organization (HPO). For a truly High Performance Organization is one in which their will be high morale and an innate ability to achieve superior results for all stakeholders in the company.

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Reducing Global Lead Times To Improve Customer Experience At Becton Dickinson

Product lead time is crucial in the life sciences industry and represents a key consideration for customers’ purchasing decisions. For this reason, BD Biosciences aimed to optimize its global supply and distribution network to reduce delivery lead time to customers and optimize its global inventory. How was BD Biosciences successful in reducing global distribution lead times between 30% and 60% in addition to: Increasing agility to prioritize urgent and ad-hoc customer requests Increasing global

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5 Factors Affecting Lead Times for Manufacturers

Unleashed

Lead times refer to the time taken between the initiation of a manufacturing process and its completion. Types of lead times differ based on the product or customer but for the purpose of manufacturing or assembly, the primary four lead times are: Customer lead time Material lead time Production or manufacturing lead time Cumulative lead time. In short, lead times are the period between the appearance of a new operational task on your worksheet to the final departure of that task from your syste

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The Control Tower – Is Yours Real or Smoke and Mirrors?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. 10 Supply Chain Investment Challenges – Real and Imagined! . The advancement of digital technology enables the real-time, intelligent management of the Supply Chain. But any company’s Supply Chain can still involve tens of thousands of skus, thousands of bills of material, thousands of suppliers, hundreds of transportation vendors, dozens of manufacturing facilities and distribution centres, and numerous customer