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Mars Wrigley’s Highly Successful Supply Chain Digital Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

Mars Wrigley chose Transplace, now UBER Freight, for North America and a partnership with Maersk/E2Open for ocean freight. This exercise was previously a cumbersome manual exercise done on a weekly basis for the top 45 stock keeping units (SKUs). Mars Wrigley is achieving success in North America with this solution.

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Supply Chain Resilience: Three Lessons from the Leaders

BlueYonder

Luciano Sieber, Vice President of End-to-End Supply Chain for North America at Colgate-Palmolive, sums up the need to recognize and master volatility: “Resilience has a clear definition at Colgate: thriving in a world of uncertainty.” As a result, we’ve seen a 10% increase in service metrics.”.

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Friends with Fitbits: Fitness tracking and taking supply chain planning to the next level

DELMIA Quintiq

As one of its many programs, it initiated the “2015 Going the Distance Challenge” here in North America. We exercised, we had fun, we supported each other. In supply chain planning, we are driven by metrics. Our parent company, Dassault Systèmes, places great emphasis on the health and wellbeing of its 14,000+ employees.

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How to Capture Full Divestiture Value with a 3PL

Talking Logistics

This begets the need to set the overall strategy for the divestment by way of an exercise, called “capability scoping.” So it is important to have several mechanisms in place to track performance, including: key performance metrics, regular reviews and processes for making adjustments.

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Value-Added Logistics Partnerships Bring Benefits to Sporting Goods Shippers

Zipline Logistics

Those that can exercise control and uncover visibility into key supply chain processes are shown to fare better than competitors. However, these diminishing on-time metrics did not plague shippers that worked with logistics partners on a strategic level.

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Friends with Fitbits: Fitness Tracking and Taking Supply Chain Planning to the Next Level

Talking Logistics

As one of its many programs, it initiated the “2015 Going the Distance Challenge” here in North America. We exercised, we had fun, we supported each other. In supply chain planning, we are driven by metrics. Our parent company, Dassault Systèmes, places great emphasis on the health and wellbeing of its 14,000+ employees.

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Working capital game-changer: 5 key takeaways to help you champion your working capital strategy

Taulia

However, the mechanisms for cash management have historically been fragmented with The Hackett Group estimating that some $6tr is locked up in supply chains across North America and Europe alone. Companies recognise that cash is critical to fund innovation and growth, enabling them to compete in this new world order.