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What is Supply Chain Decision Support? Are We Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic?

Supply Chain Shaman

PWC’s Digital Trends in Supply Chain Survey reports that 83% of manufacturers say that supply chain technologies have not delivered the expected results. For reference, authoritative identifiers are the starting point for processes where goods are tracked against a standard like fair labor or food safety.

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Reshoring Or Not, What is Manufacturing? 4 Questions to Ponder with Real American Manufacturers

GlobalTranz

Editor's Note: This is a two part series featuring Chuck Intrieri, who along with providing excellent insights over at his industry leading The Lean Supply Chain blog, is also a consultant who works with companies for Cost Reduction, Supply Chain Optimization, Logistics, Manufacturing, and 3PL Selection. What is Manufacturing?

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A Radical New Way to Think About Supply Chain Management

Logistics Viewpoints

A company buys these solutions to optimize their business. What ARC calls “supply chain collaboration networks,” TCS refers to as “ecosystem commerce platforms.”. It is these changing constraints, transportation capacity, and bottlenecks across an entire ecosystem that matters. And this has clearly gotten worse in recent years.

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Pandemic Lessons For Supply Chain Leaders

Supply Chain Shaman

Advanced planning evolved with a focus on modeling manufacturing constraints. Initially, the output was published to procurement to design strategic buying strategies. The focus of the transportation suites was on cost mitigation and price negotiation. Procurement: Purchase price variance and procurement cost.

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5 Best Logistics Books to Keep Within Reach

Supply Chain Opz

Then, we use these criteria to rank the books, - Practicality: we look closely at how each book can provide basic concepts and strategies of the "Integrated Logistics Functions", namely, customer service, purchasing, production planning, warehousing, and transportation in a clear and concise manner. He has an MBA from UCLA.

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Our Walk In The Fog

Supply Chain Shaman

While there is much hype on DDMRP and the use of orders as a proxy for demand, companies need to remember that orders carry latency: they are out-of-step with market purchase behavior. The transformational wave is slowly transforming the automotive industry from a focus on selling “rides” versus the purchase of an automobile.

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Turvo’s Collaborative TMS Paved the Way for Port X Logistics to Triple Growth

Turvo

This is due, in large part, to the Amazon effect which has increased delivery expectations for not only domestic online shopping purchases, but for industries as a whole. Rather than something sleek and flexible; they are hulking, cumbersome programs that are often souped-up versions of an Excel spreadsheet.