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HWI Unleashes Continuous Innovation

Logistics Viewpoints

Dave Elias, VP of SCM (on the left), and Josh Stauffer, Sr. They view their implementation of a tightly integrated suite of applications delivered in a public cloud infrastructure from Oracle as a platform on which they can build to help drive continuous innovation. Director of IT, of HWI. HWI employed a crawl-walk-run methodology.

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Customer Experience Driving Innovation for High-Performing Companies

Talking Logistics

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt of a research report published last week , “Competing on Customer Experience: The Driving Force Behind Supply Chain Innovation.” To gain insights on that question and more, Adelante SCM and BluJay Solutions conducted a web survey of supply chain and logistics professionals in March 2018.

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Supply Chain Resilience. Really?

Supply Chain Shaman

Source: Supply Chain Insights ASCM defines resilience in the SCM Supply Chain Dictionary as the ability of a supply chain to anticipate, create plans to avoid or mitigate, and to recover from disruptions to supply chain functionality. Each churn reduces the opportunity for innovation and introduces supply chain risk.

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Elastic Logistics is a more flexible approach to meet the client’s needs

Procurement Academy

The Elastic Logistics approach has become an appropriate response recently when Supply Chain Management (SCM) found the challenges of persistently tracking an enormous variety of items and suppliers and the need to fulfill ever-growing client’s personalized demands and expectations. Benefits of Elastic Logistics and warehousing.

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Warehouse Cost Reductions: 3 Understandings Driven By Inventory Management & Lean Principles

GlobalTranz

This is the second part of my series on various ways to reduce overall costs as it relates to logistics and warehouse cost reductions. Today, I will now address how a focus on inventory will allow for warehouse cost reductions as well. A Focus on Inventory Control Begets Warehouse Cost Reductions. First, data integrity is vital.

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What is Supply Chain Management? Importance & Benefits

QAD

Supply chain management (SCM) is essential to any business strategy. E-commerce brands must oversee design, manufacturing, sourcing, warehouse inventory, shipping and delivery. Electronics and High-Tech – Innovation and the ability to quickly manage change are two keys to success in this industry. Let’s dive in.

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Seasoned Leadership in Action! An Interview with Paul Kretz, Head of SCM at Church & Dwight!

Supply Chain Game Changer

And the operation had been run without true Warehouse Management experience as well. The other person seemed overwhelmed and lost while looking at the mess in the warehouse. I was going to move to the States when the leadership team asked me to run the Canadian warehouse. In SCM I think that the changes have been seismic.

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