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Lora Cecere Asks: Why Do People Question the Value of S&OP?

Logility

Last month, I shared the microphone with Keith Holliday, Vice President of Supply Chain, on an APICS webinar sponsored by Logility to discuss the value proposition of S&OP to Sonoco Products. To understand the value of S&OP, let’s contrast Keith’s performance to one of his competitors Owens Illinois.

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Lora Cecere Asks: Why Do People Question the Value of S&OP?

Logility

Last month, I shared the microphone with Keith Holliday, Vice President of Supply Chain, on an APICS webinar sponsored by Logility to discuss the value proposition of S&OP to Sonoco Products. To understand the value of S&OP, let’s contrast Keith’s performance to one of his competitors Owens Illinois.

S&OP 100
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[INFOGRAPHIC] Alexander Hamilton: A US Manufacturing Visionary

GlobalTranz

The MEP national network, a public/private partnership in all 50 states and Puerto Rico, is represented in Illinois by the Illinois Manufacturing Excellence Center (IMEC). The Chicago Community Trust (Chicagoland Workforce Funders Alliance), a group of foundations, are working together to address workforce challenges in Illinois.

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PepsiCo’s Massive, Complex, and Difficult Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Logistics Viewpoints

The company is using Blue Yonder for transportation management, Coupa’s Supply Chain Guru for network design, and FourKites ( see the webinar ) for transportation visibility in certain regions or departments to help with this. Technology is used to help in this endeavor. Some of their main investments are focused on trucks.

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Former Walgreens and Caterpillar Executives Join the AIM10x Executive Network to Help Deliver Business Value

o9 Solutions

As a trusted adviser to C-level executives for enterprise-wide digital transformation programs, he served on the board of directors for IMEC (formerly Illinois Manufacturing Excellence Center). Prior to Caterpillar, he led multiple supply excellence and transformation programs at Praxair (now Linde) and EDS (now HP).

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Two Million Vacant Manufacturing Jobs by 2025…How Can We Tackle the Skills Gap?

GlobalTranz

For a microcosmic sampling, the CMAP report published by the Illinois government (widely reputed as a resource for broader industrial indicators), reveals an acute shortage of qualified candidates to fill essential manufacturing positions in the Chicago region, including CNC Programmers, CNC Operators, Industrial Machinery Mechanics, and Welders.

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Bristlecone Flash – November 2019

Bristlecone

What do a California-based global Fortune 500 tech company, a Saudi Arabian electrical systems manufacturer, a global medical device company headquartered in New York, an access products manufacturer in Illinois and a global pharmaceutical leader headquartered in Ireland all have in common? WEBINAR: AI IN SUPPLY CHAIN PLANNING.