Logistics Viewpoints
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
In a survey of 150 global manufacturing executives, 47% committed to improving supply chain visibility and tracking. According to the Global Supply Chain Disruption and Future Strategies Survey Report, this goal was the top-ranked planned tool investment.
Logistics Viewpoints
MAY 19, 2022
Malcolm McLean, a trucker from North Carolina, was tired of waiting. He had a load full of cotton bales, and while idling away hours at a shipyard watching stevedores load other cargo onto ships he dreamed up containers that transformed global supply chains.
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American Global Logistics
JULY 14, 2023
However, there is a need for more precise and comprehensive metrics to understand the full economic impact of supply chains. The supply chain supports an additional 770,000 jobs, comprising 31%, of North Carolina's workforce. Bottlenecks in global production networks reflect imbalances between supply and demand.
Logistics Viewpoints
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
But you don’t just have to wait to see what has happened; planners can proactively create scenarios to simulate decisions and weigh trade-offs on the metrics that matter across the network, not just one link at a time. A change to one link (e.g. increased materials lead times) triggers the impact across the rest of the chain (e.g.
NC State SCRC
DECEMBER 17, 2017
In the innovation category, metrics related to spending management, category management, strategic sourcing and supplier relationship management. In the social responsibility category, metrics related to supply chain policies, practices and results, including audits and lawsuits, with respect to human relations and the environment.
NC State SCRC
DECEMBER 14, 2020
Both of these assessments are described in the ratings description , as follows: “Through a process developed by North Carolina State University professor Robert Handfield, a review is conducted of publicly available information, as well as interviews and surveys of corporate procurement specialists.”
Supply Chain View from the Field
AUGUST 24, 2015
Center for Environmental Farming Systems (1) – Dairy Farming Project – Helping to create a transition plan to Austin Family Dairy Farm, a 75-Jersey cow conventional dairy farm located in Yancey County, North Carolina. What do all of these projects have in common? You guessed it – ANALYTICS!
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