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SCRC Meeting – Tom Linton’s “Supply Chain Eight” and Golden Winged Warblers : Questions Every New CSCO Should Ask Their CEO

NC State SCRC

Co-location of supply chains will reduce disruptions, complications with transportations, government regulations, etc. When it is not in motion, it is classified as inventory. But this took time – we had to “defrag” our supply chain, and eventually I learned we had 59 days of inventory. and will operate more efficiently.

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Reflections on the LIVING Supply Chain SCRC Meeting

NC State SCRC

The SCRC meeting featured a group of executives, students, and faculty participating at the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative meeting yesterday in Raleigh, held at the new Talley Student Center on the NC State campus. Information Systems. We’re working on on-time delivery and sharing real-time information with our suppliers.

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Omni-Channel Supply Chains Are Changing Everything You Ever Learned in School…

Supply Chain View from the Field

His insights and presence were most appreciated by everyone, especially given the snowfall we were experiencing in Raleigh last night! This view of the supply chain is focused primarily on how we get inventory to the customer. This led to Omni-Channel sales. This is the major crux of the problem. And so they aren’t reporting it.

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Post-mortem on Christmas Logistics Chaos: On Customer Commitments and Transparency

NC State SCRC

Every one of his major retail big box customers (about 6 of them) required detailed conference calls lasting an hour and a half, almost every other day, requiring detailed information on the location and origin of the just about every single trailer, shipment, ocean carrier, and third party provider down to a granular level of detail.