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Ten Supply Chain Predictions for 2023

NC State SCRC

These predictions are perhaps not completely original – but they represent what I think will be important guidelines for supply chain executives to consider. Inventory will remain bloated for the first half of 2023, – and supplier relationships will be tested. Inflation will persist.

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Lean Six Sigma for SMEs: A Path to Continuous Improvement

SCMDOJO

Over the years, various methodologies have emerged to address this need, including lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and the integration of both known as Lean Six Sigma (LSS). – Operational improvements (reduction of lead time, increase in productivity, and reduction in work-in-process inventory, etc.). Hoerl, R.W.,

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Why investors are looking at supply chain technologies in 2020

Requis

Insiders joke (quite fairly, as it turns out) about billion-dollar procurement-management-disposition cycles that are managed in spreadsheets. In the procurement space, what I want to be able to assess is risk management. He and his business partner Dan Dershem have been looking at procurement from several angles.