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Supply Chain Resilience. Really?

Supply Chain Shaman

The ability of an organization to deliver reliable and consistent results for revenue, margin, customer service, and quality in the face of demand and supply variability. Maximize the value of the purchase order flow data already in the existing networks. (A A purchase order changes many times and needs synchronization.

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Inventory Management Excellence: Some Companies to Learn From

Logistics Bureau

So, rather than get overly prescriptive, I’ll use this blog post to highlight some companies that have achieved success through excellence in inventory management , and outline some of the most effective elements of their strategies. Another takeaway is the importance of warehouse layout as an enabler for inventory management excellence.

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Excel, ERP and Legacy Apps, Oh My! What Technology is Supporting Your S&OP Process?

Kinaxis

It never ceases to surprise me when I hear how many enterprises entrust a mission-critical task to the desktop spreadsheet software Excel®. So what’s wrong with Excel? For example, with Excel you can’t easily: Integrate information from many sources. Support reliable data quality and secure data exchange.

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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

Source E2open Shipping Index). Today, only 4% of companies are the first to buy new technology—a 40% decline from post Y2K in 2001. We started the conversation with sourcing. Lucas had a team that dictated sourcing based on excel spreadsheet analysis to reduce cost and improve tax efficiency. What to do?

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HWI Unleashes Continuous Innovation

Logistics Viewpoints

They also have 20 sourcing locations across North America from which they can ship make to stock products. The sourcing centers are key to just-in-time, same-day, next-day deliveries. The sourcing centers shipped over 130,000,000 pounds of product last year. The company needs a very complete product line.

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Seven Mistakes You Wish Your CFO Had Not Made You Make

Supply Chain Shaman

Source E2open Shipping Index). Today, only 4% of companies are the first to buy new technology—a 40% decline from post Y2K in 2001. We started the conversation with sourcing. Lucas had a team that dictated sourcing based on excel spreadsheet analysis to reduce cost and improve tax efficiency. What to do?

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Time to Rethink Sourcing Rare Earth Elements

Supply Chain Game Changer

Strategic National Stockpiles and Sourcing for the National Interest! These Rare Earth Elements have long ago been abandoned for mining and processing here in the United States and are part of our reliance on Chinese sources of supply. sourcing #rareearthelements. Subscribe Here! Email Address. What are Rare Earth Elements?