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McDonald’s Mesoamérica Supply Chain Response to COVID-19

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If you do the math there, you have to make 748,000 inventory decisions per month. So our main task now is to consolidate all the purchase and inventory decisions in one team. Rafael: The main two challenges we’ve had are volume, in our case reduction, and the forecast uncertainty. Decisions were made within 24 hours.

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Updated IT Subway Map: Major acquisitions in SC software

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El Salvador. This young, publicly listed American software vendor recently bought out Terra Technology, a specialist in demand sensing (short-term forecasting based on point-of-sale data). Such a system enables those companies to fulfil orders flexibly by dispatching the goods from various inventory points (e.g.

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Mindmap for Global Logistics Integration

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El Salvador. Poor forecasting leads to rush orders to meet the delivery requirement demands of customers. Finally, the system should enable intelligent inventory location management to ensure optimal on-shelf availability for the end customers. Congo, The Democratic Republic of The. Cook Islands. Costa Rica.

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3PL Subway 2015: Strategic movements among logistics providers

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El Salvador. However, Technavio’s analysts now forecast the 3PL market in Europe to grow at a CAGR of 2.87% over the period 2014-2019. Congo, The Democratic Republic of The. Cook Islands. Costa Rica. Cote D'ivoire. Czech Republic. Dominican Republic. Equatorial Guinea. Falkland Islands (Malvinas). Faroe Islands. French Guiana.