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Study Shows Two-Thirds of Companies Yet to Execute Digital Transformation in Supply Chain Planning

ToolsGroup

and HOUSTON, Tex. Digital transformation is not seen as a singular activity but a set of interrelated activities that span across people, process, technology, policy, and metrics,” said George Fowler, group vice president in Spinnaker’s Supply Chain business unit. BOSTON, Mass.

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Managing Logistics for The World’s Largest Company with Gary Sostack

The Logistics of Logistics

Then, after a short spell in New Orleans, I moved to Houston to work with supply chain in oil and gas. If you live in Houston, you know who it is. The expected metrics were part of the contract. For the last four years, I’ve been teaching at the University of Houston. 04:37] Tell us about the world’s largest company.

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Provoking the Industry to Move Past Incrementalism

Supply Chain Shaman

Houston, We Have a Problem. An orbit chart is a plotting of data at the intersection of two metrics. In this case, the metrics are operating margin and inventory turns. Houston, we have a problem. They believed that the system was driving improvement. Remember this phrase from the US Apollo 13 mission ?

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Changing SRM Behaviors in a Period of $70/bbl Oil

Supply Chain View from the Field

I was in Houston yesterday evening, speaking to a large group of procurement executives at a roundtable held by KPMG’s Procurement Advisory Group, at the fabulous Brennan’s restaurant on Smith Street. It seems as if the infrastructure is continuing to grow, based on the strong oil prices we’ve seen in the last few years.

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Supply Chain Talk: Do Numbers Tell the Full Story?

Arkieva

At first glance, supply chain metrics may seem to tell you a lot about your current supply chain operations. percent in Houston. In developing supply chain metrics , we need to be conscious of this as well. For the same reasons supply chain metrics need to be reviewed over time. Look again! in the south to as much as 3.4

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How Supply Chain Will be Affected by Hurricane Harvey

Material Handling & Logistics

Hurricane Harvey has struck a significant blow to the Houston, Texas metro area, home to the sixth largest import terminal in the world, as well as all of the shipping lanes in the Gulf Coast area. For manufacturing, those metrics are new orders, production, employment, supplier deliveries, and inventories of input materials.

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The State of Holiday Shipping & Learnings for Next Peak Season

Intelligent Audit

UPS to Houston has experienced the most delays—8.9%, followed closely by New York and Los Angeles. FedEx delays have been most prevalent in Miami (13.8%), Chicago (13.6%), and Houston (13.5%). UPS parcels heading to Texas had a 10.3% FedEx packages to Illinois had a 15.3%