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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

Logistics Viewpoints

Cooper includes southern New Jersey’s only Level I trauma center (Cooper University Hospital), which is the busiest trauma center in the Philadelphia region. If they were dependent, did they have East Coast distribution centers where they could preplace inventory before the strike occurred. Reacting just doesn’t work anymore.”

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Getting Ready for 2017: Reflections on Telling Lies

Supply Chain Shaman

The gloomy streets will soon be alive with Mummers to ring in the New Year in Philadelphia. The Mummers Parade is a Philadelphia tradition. In a nutshell, the research states there is a correlation between cost, inventory, and forecast performance. This is especially true in an Information Technology department.

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ThankX Delivery Services!

Supply Chain Game Changer

In March 2020, Real Estate Investor/Tax Analyst Carlos Colon (a Philadelphia native, raised in Puerto Rico) decided to bring an idea of his to life; one which was building in his heart for a long period of time. Soon thereafter, the genesis of #ThankX was born: Concierge Community Couriers (based in our very own Philadelphia)!

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The Fight of the Titans

Supply Chain Shaman

My caution is not so fast… 95% of companies are not making progress at the intersection of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and asset strategies. Here I show orbit chart comparisons at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns for the period of 2006-2017. This is especially true for the Titans.

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Planning Software: Insights on User Satisfaction

Supply Chain Shaman

In prior posts , I have shared some information on this work. In Figure 1, I share an analysis of user satisfaction of demand, tactical supply, inventory and Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) technologies using this technique. There are more outliers in the inventory and demand planning responses creating longer ‘whiskers.’

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American Software Reports Second Quarter of Fiscal Year 2022 Results

Logility

Customers recognized were Mandy McCain of Berry Global, Katherine Storer of Berlin Packaging, Stephanie Francis of ChemPoint, Michelle Wielemaker of Capral Australia and Mariam Belghith of Laboratories Philadelphia in Sfax, Tunisia (laboratories SIMED). Company and Technology. Demand Management, Inc. Operating and Non-GAAP Financial Measures.

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Five Reflections From Supply Chain Planning Benchmarking

Supply Chain Shaman

However, for elements like forecast error, customer service and slow-moving inventory self-reported data is not sufficient. 4) Best Forecasters do not Have the Best Inventory Results. In this work, Debra would take a month of forecasting, inventory and other supply chain data and evaluate trends. Increase in Complexity?