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My Lessons in Interviewing Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

One of my favorite supply chain leadership stories is Clorox. I love the team’s work on supply chain segmentation and complexity management. They are the only company I know of that trained marketing and sales teams on supply chain constraints and segmentations as it ties to product lifecycle management.

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Industrie 4.0: Its Impact on Supply Chain Planning

ToolsGroup

This puts more pressure on the supply chain to leverage analytics to improve supply chain segmentation and demand translation,” says Gartner Research in a report titled, The Five Things Chief Supply Chain Officers Need to Know about Industrie 4.0. This means planning systems supporting Industrie 4.0

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How to Attain “Stage 4” Supply Chain Planning Maturity

ToolsGroup

To do that, Gartner also recommends the following technological focal points for Stage 4: Employ a unified supply chain planning model in order to support extensive multi-enterprise planning and collaboration. Build more resilient supply chain plans (e.g.,

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Agility and flexibility in the age of digital supply chains – Insights from the 2017 Supply Chain & Logistics EMEA summit & expo

Kinaxis

About three hundred supply chain professionals from various pockets of the world representing manufacturers, retailers, logistics providers, and technology vendors took part in the summit. It was a 3 day event with some very provocative content while providing sufficient opportunities for networking and peer-to-peer learning.

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Why Segmentation and Profitability Go Hand in Hand

BlueYonder

The Aberdeen Supply Chain Summit in Chicago earlier this month was a productive event for supply chain executives and practitioners. I also had the pleasure of hosting a roundtable session on supply chain segmentation along with Bob Heaney , Aberdeen’s lead analyst for Supply Chain Management.

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Global Supply Chain Management: Best Practices and Trends

HICX Solutions

This has been acutely highlighted since the turn of the decade due to global events. It leaves those organizations that are not focused on the efficiency and robustness of their supply chains susceptible to disruption and revenue erosion. We’ll now further explore some additional capabilities emerging in the software space.

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Good Safety is Good Business at the LogiChem 2015 Conference

CH Robinson Transportfolio

I always come back from these conferences inspired and fascinated at how diligent chemical supply chain managers must be to mitigate risk and adverse events. These chemical manufacturers must improve their supply chain resilience in order to thrive, be successful, and—ultimately—be safe. Supply chain segmentation.