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Is Your Supply Chain Recession Proof? A Guide for Building a Resilient Supply Chain

SCMDOJO

An excellent example of optimizing inventory is Zara. Consider alternative financial arrangements, such as risk-sharing agreements or advance purchasing contracts. A global example for this would be Apple, after the 2011 Japan earthquake. A global example for this would be Apple, after the 2011 Japan earthquake.

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The Key Manufacturing Highlights from aim10x Europe

o9 Solutions

Adnan Shahid, Vice President of Supply Chain Planning and Procurement, and Gerhard Mühlhans, Vice President and Head of the Supply Chain Center of Excellence, described the organization’s shift from legacy processes, where 79 planners operated independently using spreadsheets, to a centralized, digital platform. “We

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L’Oréal: A Case Study in Supply Chain Excellence

Supply Chain Shaman

The Company;s senses consumer preferences to change and align their portfolio to deliver personalized products for purchase anytime and anywhere. With a keen focus on the customer, L’Oréal senses and uses customer sentiment. This has pushed the company to hyper-connectivity with the final consumer.

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Supply Chain Disruptions: A Survival Guide - SupplyChainOpz

Supply Chain Opz

The company won the ISM 2012 Award for Excellence in Supply Management (category:process). 2011: Earthquake/Tsunami in Japan. Lesson learned from Japan is that, you need another kind of IT system if youre in a manufacturing company. And according to the U.S. 2009: H1N1 Outbreak in Mexico. 2011: Thailand Floods.

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A Conversation with Stuart Whiting, Schneider Electric

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

He is very passionate about developments in the Supply Chain arena and is always seeking excellence in his drive for efficiency & innovation in Supply Chain operations” – a quality that is very relevant to face up to the many Supply Chain challenges in our path! The silo mentality of traditional organizations must be broken.

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Surviving the COVID-19 Pandemic and Future Supply Chain Disruptions Through Supply Chain Digital Transformation

Logility

Humans excel at solving problems that require common sense, generalization, creativity and dealing with ethical dilemmas, subjective actions and abstraction. Cognitive systems excel at locating knowledge, developing an optimal solution, eliminating bias, compressing process times, and dealing with repetitive decisions.

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Sourcing Strategy: Effective vs Efficient with Ron Crabtree

The Logistics of Logistics

MetaExperts are talent operational excellence (OpEx) hands-on-deck, training, and get-it-done partners. The upshot of all this is the result of now we very brittle supply chains, now inherently susceptible to massive disruption – even by a single event – such as the tsunami event in Japan. About MetaOps and MetaExperts.