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After doing a deep dive into the Household Products (Nondurable) industry segment to show why Proctor & Gamble did not make the Supply Chains to Admire TM winner list, I wanted to show an example calculation for a company that made the winner list. I thought they would be a great company to use as an example. MORE
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A company making toys or consumer electronics, for example, would need to carefully balance the risk of a potential stock out against the risk of holding excess inventory that never sells. MORE
Supply chain transparency is becoming more important to business leaders and consumers, both of whom increasingly are concerned about working conditions, human rights, and environmental preservation. Apple, a company well known to both groups, recently released its “Supplier Responsibility 2016 Progress Report,” which highlights the tech company’s rigorous push for corporate social responsibility standards. MORE
This is yet another example of how past performance is no guarantee of future success , of how companies cannot succeed anymore despite having all sorts of inefficient practices in place, including having poor visibility and control of their supply chains. The post Chipotle: The Latest Example of Why Supply Chain Risk Management Matters appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. Why is supply chain risk management important? Why should CEOs and CFOs care? MORE
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Planning ahead for your yearly business spending? You need a purchasing plan! How is your plan for your office spending? You have a budget? Great. Do you have a calendar for when you need to make the purchase to account for lead time? There are lots of benefits to doing some small business planning for your purchases ahead of time. Think of those times when you could have saved money buying a gently used piece of equipment, if only you had the time to shop around. MORE
She’s a huge proponent of leading by example and in her new leadership role at JDA keeps this in mind in everything that she does. The first is “the world is changed by your example, not your opinion.” I live by this – leading by example. MORE
In this blog, we will illustrate through an example of these potential pitfalls (unanchored, random variation, and narrow metrics) and potential negative impact on a firm. MORE
If you’re like me, you might see a long report online and skip past the details to get to the good stuff – the results. When the Supply Chains to Admire TM report came out last week, I scrolled right to the winners. To try to wrap my head around the way the winners were determined, I dug in to the data. I wanted to take one particular company and calculate their results myself to understand the methodology fully. As you can see from Figure 1, the Supply Chains to Admire methodology has 3 steps. MORE
Planning ahead for your yearly business spending? You need a purchasing plan! How is your plan for your office spending? You have a budget? Great. Do you have a calendar for when you need to make the purchase to account for lead time? There are lots of benefits to doing some small business planning for your purchases ahead of time. Think of those times when you could have saved money buying a gently used piece of equipment, if only you had the time to shop around. MORE
To illustrate the point, a recent paper from Ventana Research on supply chain planning revealed issues that companies using spreadsheet planning have experienced, including: Prescriptive Analytics Supply Chain Advanced Analytics predictive analytics Supply chain analytics Supply Chain Planning supply chain analytics examples MORE
We conclude our series on supplier quality management (SQM) today with a look at some case studies and examples of benefits derived from the application of a supplier quality management system. Examples and Case Studies from the Implementation of a Supplier Quality Management System. link] Twitter Google+ LinkedIn The post Examples of How Supplier Quality Management System Implementations Pay Off appeared first on Freight Logistics Company | Cerasis. MORE
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For example, Apple might want us to increase 100 production lines, but we would only add 50 to 60 gradually.”. Today’s breaking Wall Street Journal article provides a great case study on the impacts of not proprerly managing contractual supplier relationships. First consider the type of supply arrangement this represented. This was an important and emerging new technology, one that would produce manufactured sapphire to cover the face of all of Apple’s new iphone products. MORE
Cross-selling can be done in a number of ways – for example, promoting an item under promotional banners like ‘often bought with’ or ‘special price’. ” is a well-known, successful and simple cross-selling example What are best practices for cross-selling?? What are examples of?successful?cross-selling? MORE
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An ‘aggressive’ fight over containers is causing shipping costs to rocket by 300%. Written by Tan Weizhen and published on CNBC 1/24/2021. KEY POINTS. Shipping costs have skyrocketed as desperate companies wait weeks for containers and pay premium rates to get them, according to industry watchers. MORE
Examples of Real-World Use of Blockchain in Supply Chain & Logistics Some examples of application and use of blockchain in supply chain and logistics, reports DHL , include: Citizen Services – Blockchain technology can be used to verify the identity of individuals, and it is already in use by ID2020, helping those without access to a physical form of identification to verify their identity. The days of managing supply chains through databases and changing information are over. MORE
Planning ahead for your yearly business spending? You need a purchasing plan! How is your plan for your office spending? You have a budget? Great. Do you have a calendar for when you need to make the purchase to account for lead time? There are lots of benefits to doing some small business planning for your purchases ahead of time. Think of those times when you could have saved money buying a gently used piece of equipment, if only you had the time to shop around. MORE
The post An Example of Simulation-Based Multiechelon Inventory Optimization appeared first on Smart Software. For most small-to-medium manufacturers and distributors, single-level or single-echelon inventory optimization is at the cutting edge of logistics practice. MORE
The following are real industry examples of why they are looking at visibility as the “air ticket” itself and not just as “insurance;” a switch from “nice-to-have” to “must-have.” MORE
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She’s a huge proponent of leading by example and in her new leadership role at JDA keeps this in mind in everything that she does. The first is “the world is changed by your example, not your opinion.” I live by this – leading by example. MORE
Planning ahead for your yearly business spending? You need a purchasing plan! How is your plan for your office spending? You have a budget? Great. Do you have a calendar for when you need to make the purchase to account for lead time? There are lots of benefits to doing some small business planning for your purchases ahead of time. Think of those times when you could have saved money buying a gently used piece of equipment, if only you had the time to shop around. MORE
One of the best examples I have seen of highly successful change management was presented by Tina Jalap from the Swedish pharmacy chain Kronans Apotek. Some examples: Q: If a customer asks for a product that we don’t have, how will the system know that there is a demand? Managing change at the individual level is essential to realize benefits across the organization. Companies pick supply chain planning software based on the benefits to the business. MORE
With the rising cost of transportation, companies are desperately vying to look for an efficient systems and processes that make their teams more productive. Technology can help greatly in this and more and more companies are looking at a TMS (Transportation Management System) for optimization and cost reductions. While the TMS has gained much popularity, it is still only implemented by about 25-35% of large companies. MORE
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