Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

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SCM Research

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

'In his recent Nature article, Climate Economics: Make Supply Chains Climate-smart , Anders Levermann argues that supply chains need to adapt to extreme weather. He discusses this topic in the following guest post. Extreme weather events are likely to intensify the more greenhouse-gases we emit – and these extremes are more than just a local risk. Links in global economic chains and world markets mean that flooding or heat-waves in one place can have repercussions elsewhere.

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Kinaxis

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

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Supply Chain Movement

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'Oracle European Value Chain Summit. Date: 18-19 March 2014. Venue: Movenpick, Amsterdam. Organisation: Oracle. URL: www.oracle.com/goto/vcsummit14. Oracle European Value Chain Summit: Empowering the Modern Value Chain. The rapidly changing business environment has created new growth opportunities – and new challenges in product development and supply chain management.

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Tenney Group, an industry specialized M&A Advisory firm in the T&L space, produced the 2024 Annual M&A Report. The report contains an in depth overview of 2023 notable deals and the market, while also providing the outlook for 2024 M&A.

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MIT Supply Chain

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

'Yossi Sheffi giving a classroom lecture to SCALE students during SCALE Connect 2014. The traditional chalk blackboards have given way to interactive whiteboards in many classrooms, but the way teachers teach has basically stayed the same for hundreds of years. That’s about to change, and professionals of all stripes need to take note. A new model based on MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course) is transforming the way educational programs are designed and delivered.

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Kinaxis

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

'There is no question that the automotive industry has seen rapid change and improvement over the past three years. To learn more about what is impacting the industry today, Supply Chain Nation spoke with Louis Yiakoumi, Group Publisher for Automotive Logistics magazine to get his insights for our Expert Insights series. Here is an excerpt of that conversation.

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RFgen

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Employee retention is an important initiative for any company, but especially large organizations that operate with extensive staff, such as a distribution center or a manufacturing facility. Training takes time and money, and if turnover is common, the facility becomes inefficient and unprofitable. There are many aspects to retention, but the type and amount of work an employee is asked to do as a daily task plays a big part.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

'Ben Filippo is Food System Coordinator for the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association, a farmer driven membership based 501c3 non profit organization to help people in the Carolinas grow and eat locally. He also spoke in my class this week. Ben notes that “a big chunk of what we do are work with artisans and our technical services and our internal focus group teams are advocacy, food systems, policy, and education (public facing sustainable agriculture issues).

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Tompkins Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

'The consumer market in China is hyper-competitive today. Chinese consumers are buying more, and doing so through more channels than ever before. To remain competitive, companies are urged to reconsider their Chinese supply chain structures and develop new strategies. Companies need to clearly understand the challenges they face in China. Some top trends and issues we’re seeing right now include: Transportation costs and parcel providers.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

'Parker CMC Networking. About UCLA Parker CMC. The UCLA Anderson Parker Career Management Center is comprised of Career Coaches and Executives-in-Residence, who partner with students to define, pursue and achieve their post-MBA career goals, and the Campus Recruiting Team, which cultivates relationships with companies to connect them with the right MBA talent.

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RFgen

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Employee retention is an important initiative for any company, but especially large organizations that operate with extensive staff, such as a distribution center or a manufacturing facility. Training takes time and money, and if turnover is common, the facility becomes inefficient and unprofitable. There are many aspects to retention, but the type and amount of work an employee is asked to do as a daily task plays a big part.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

'Sebastian Naskarkis learned more about the ins and outs of produce quality inspections than he ever dreamed. Sebastian is a first year MBA student and NC Growing Together Research Fellow who presented in my Local Foods class yesterday, and shared many of the insights he learned while working in a large food distribution center in Winston-Salem. Sebastian would get up to start work at 3 AM, working until noon on the loading dock, alongside the quality inspectors who had been doing this work fo

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Tompkins Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

'Bruce Tompkins. Guest post by Bruce Tompkins, Executive Director, Tompkins Supply Chain Consortium. This headline raises an interesting question that Tompkins Supply Chain Consortium tackled recently in a published survey on supplier scorecards for innovation. We learned that nearly 80% of companies utilize supplier scorecards to monitor and continuously improve supplier performance.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

'FEMBA Speaks. Search. Archives. May 2014. April 2014. March 2014. February 2014. January 2014. December 2013. November 2013. April 2013. March 2013. February 2013. Categories. 1st year. 3rd year. Amber Jackson. Kali Falk. Prashant Talwar. Contact. For blog inquiries: femba.admissions @anderson.ucla.edu. « Happy New Year! | Main. | FEMBA Council » 02/12/2014.

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Global Trade Management

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

'Global Cargo Monitoring / Cargo Tracking. International trade is the engine of global prosperity today. The size of global trade has nearly doubled since 1990. The healthy growth continues as world merchandise trade continues to grow with an average of 10% per year. By having many service providers involved, which among each other are often not connected, the friction in moving goods from source to destination are very high.

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Supply Chain Cowboy

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

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Tompkins Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

'The post The Evolution of Goods-to-Person Order Fulfillment appeared first on Tompkins International.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

'My journey to understand supply chain Metrics That Matter started three years ago. I was sitting at my kitchen table attempting to write a celebratory book on the 30th anniversary of supply chain management. When I sat down to write the book, Bricks Matter, I believed that companies had used supply chain technologies to reduce operating margin and improve inventory turns.

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Supply Chain Opz

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

'At the beginning of each year, many supply chain blogs/sites publish the articles about their most popular contents of the year or make the predictions for things that might happen in the coming year. For SupplyChainOpz, we will do something a bit different, we will uncover the most outstanding supply chain blogs and their contents. Background Since we live in the era that the instant communications via the Internet is readily available, information is considered as a strategic business asset.

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