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Beware the Swinging Pendulum on Supply Chain Inventory Practices

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Supply shortages resulting in empty shelves or parking lots of WIP inventory represent a spectre causing supply chain leaders to reconsider supply chain inventory practices. Opinion of just-in-time (JIT) as a practice has taken a battering and inventory is rising. Is supply chain inventory the problem?

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What Lessons a Table Fable Teaches About Supply Chain Orchestration

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The issue wasn’t poor planning – they had the inventory. Multiple calls only muddied the waters, but a few things became clear: inventory was in the warehouse, but my order for it was stuck. The combinatorial factors disrupting supply chains persist, but in this case the problem was completely preventable.

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Better Ways to Address Trade-Offs with Supply Chain Optimization

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Malcolm McLean, a trucker from North Carolina, was tired of waiting. Imagine you are a high-tech manufacturer with more inventory in stock than your forecasted production volume, which puts you in good company, since US manufacturers’ inventories continue to rise. Now that’s an ROI!

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What is Supply Chain Visibility and Why Isn’t It Enough?

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And the impact doesn’t stop there, since trade-off decisions will be required to answer questions like which customer is most important to satisfy with the limited bolts in inventory and if production capacity should be reallocated. And then decisions on these questions will in turn affect other customers in your rattled supply chain.

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The Greenest Mile: Planning’s Role in Supply Chain Sustainability

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Technicolor, which makes high tech equipment for the connected home, found their sales team drove the business but created havoc by entering new requirements or cancelling them too late for operations to keep up, so inventories grew. Reducing inventory saves money but also reduces waste, because obsolete inventory becomes another problem.

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Wake-Call for Added Resiliency Within Healthcare Supply Networks

Supply Chain Matters

Background On July 19, a devastating tornado with reported winds of upwards of 150 miles-per-hour devastated an area in eastern North Carolina. million square foot Pfizer life-saving drug production facility located in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Pfizer drug manufacturing facility. and other countries.

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3 Questions from Your Future Supply Chain Talent

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A generation accustomed to adopting the latest technology on social media, they want platforms with built-in communication for group collaboration and instant results of queries. Working in silos and batch mode, tossing spreadsheets over the (fire)wall, will not compute.