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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). 2009: H1N1 Outbreak in Mexico. The only solid case study about supply chain risk is definitely from Cisco System. And according to the U.S. 2011: Earthquake/Tsunami in Japan. 2011: Thailand Floods.

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Experts Discuss How to Streamline Global Supply Chain

Supply Chain Opz

For example, if the supplier has several big name cosmetic industry customers (90% of their business) and you are buying specialty automotive chemicals from them (less than 5% of their business), the supplier will be influenced in the direction of the cosmetic customers and they will get the attention, products and services before you.

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Modernizing MRO Planning: How Leading Companies Are Transforming Maintenance Supply Chains

o9 Solutions

The consequences are familiar: excess inventory, chronic stockouts, urgent purchases, high logistics costs, and little visibility into whether supply is aligned with maintenance demand. As one put it: “We still use a lot of Excel because the traditional tools we have are not flexible or user-friendly enough.”

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HWI Unleashes Continuous Innovation

Logistics Viewpoints

The company has 18 plants and operating locations in the US, Canada, and Mexico as well as plants and labs in the UK, China, and Indonesia. They have tens of thousands of items they produce but there are a small number of products they purchase through a global sourcing program. HWI Has a Complex Supply Chain.

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Beyond The Data with William Sandoval

The Logistics of Logistics

Before COVID, I was spending time down in Mexico, first off in Laredo and then Nuevo Laredo. My sister lived in Mexico and Brazil for many years and she said, “ They love American football down there.” I’m always surprised we don’t have a pro team down in Mexico City and Toronto. I love every minute of it.

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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

On Monday, I would speak in Orlando Florida at the Terra Technology event; and on Wednesday, present the keynote at the Logistic Summit & Expo in Mexico City. In the outside-in supply chain, the signals are from the buy and sell-side markets back to the enterprise. How easy is it to buy from your company? Bio-engineering?

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Embracing the Digital Supply Chain

Supply Chain Shaman

I will be speaking and working with clients in wonderful locations in Brussels, China, Germany, London, Mexico, Peru, and South Africa. Digital path to purchase? The automation of the moments of truth in the buying cycle to decrease demand latency and better sense shopper and consumer demand in real-time.) Digital sourcing?