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My Lessons in Interviewing Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

Northrup Grumman, PACCAR Inc, ResMed, Ross Stores, Sleep Number, Subaru, Toro, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) Company. When I ask supply chain leaders to name their list of supply chain leaders, it never matches the list of the Supply Chains to Admire. Congrats to all. Industry Bias.

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Building Your Supply Chain Strategy: Defining Customer-Centric Supply Chain Design for Manufacturing Companies

BlueYonder

How to adopt customer-centric practices from retailers. In Part I of my Supply Chain Strategy series, I explained why the five tenets of High-Performing Supply Chains remain a great starting point to build your supply chain strategy. Frequent product portfolio changes.

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100+ Supply Chain Crisis Statistics: Raw Materials, Covid-19, Labor Shortages, and More

ToolsGroup

Learn more on how to overcome today’s supply chain challenges by securing the free guide, 8 Winning Strategies to Combat Supply Shortages. And, to all of our supply chain friends – we thank you for your endless efforts to keep the supply chain in motion! Chain Store Age ).

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Becoming demand-driven on command

Supply Chain Movement

I would recommend that you stabilize your efforts on demand planning and learn how to use demand data. Use multiple sources of demand data in the forecast, and build a demand signal repository to harmonize and synchronize demand data from multiple sources. Automate Manufacturing to Use Independent Demand.

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Building Your Supply Chain Strategy: The Customer-Centric Journey Towards Supply Chain Excellence

BlueYonder

In Part I of my Supply Chain Strategy series, I explained why the five tenets of High-Performing Supply Chains remain a great starting point to build your supply chain strategy. In Part II , we saw how seeking inspiration from retailers can help manufacturing companies to embrace customer-centricity.

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Logistics Center of Excellence: Delivering Value to Organizations

Talking Logistics

Perhaps the most overworked word in the supply chain management lexicon is “visibility.” Yet it’s difficult to overstate the importance of a view into what’s going on in the supply chain. After all, you can’t source, make, move, store, deliver, measure or improve what you can’t see. Source: GEODIS.