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SCRC Innovation and Social Responsibility Supply Index: A Critical Input to “Drucker Management Top 250 List”

NC State SCRC

The ranking “is based on an analysis of 37 data inputs provided by 12 third-party sources. In the innovation category, metrics related to spending management, category management, strategic sourcing and supplier relationship management. Jacobs et al.,

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The SCRC’s Contribution to the WSJ’s Best Managed Companies

NC State SCRC

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.”

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2018

Material Handling & Logistics

The retail giant plans to take out 50 million metric tons (MMT) by 2030, which is equivalent to the emissions associated with the average annual electricity consumption of 40 million Chinese households. Supply Chain Innovators of 2013 : paperless food chain, VLMs, cold chain fleet management, and more. Warehouse Automation. Media Type.

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Patrick Hopkins at Coupa: Coca Cola’s four truths of procurement to pay in action

Supply Chain View from the Field

This led to the development of Coca Cola Consolidated, located in Greensboro North Carolina, which later moved its headquarters to Charlotte, NC. The invention of the Contour bottle also came out in 1916, and in 1919, investors took Coke global. Users find what they need.

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5 Lessons from the Desert for the Future of Supply Chain Resiliency

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply chains must be connected and collaborative so all links can align to business strategy and oriented toward a common set of the most important metrics (and not functional metrics that drive siloed behavior). But to operate at the board level we need to be able to speak the CFO’s language. Spike up to protect against attack.

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How to implement a supply chain management system

Unleashed

Any expanding business is today likely to receive sales orders from a range of sources, from over the phone, to email, via a presence on online platforms such as Shopify or Amazon, via channel partnerships and from salespeople on the road. Problems that cloud-based supply chain management software solves. Manufacturing complexity.

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“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”: The argument for creating an analytics culture

NC State SCRC

Supply Chain Metrics!?!? The metrics used by Handfield & de Oliveira’s study use well-established, industry-standard metrics for supply chain management. True, 10-K ’s andother standard financial filings provide metrics that are often used when comparing performance between companies. are useless to shareholder value.