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Supply Chains have always shaped the World

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Paul Simpson reports, “Excavations of the dry bed of the ancient Lake Olorgesailie, in southern Kenya, led by American paleoanthropologist Rick Potts, suggest that our ancestors created the first supply chain between 305,000 and 320,000 years ago, at least 80,000 years older than we previously thought.”[1] Principle 4. ”[6].

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Podcast: Rob O’Byrne on Digital Transformation, Sustainability, and Diversification in Sourcing

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I said, “that’s fine, I’ll take that one”. Using automation better to reduce labour costs, the adoption of sales and operations planning (S&OP), and planning systems have really taken off in the last ten years. Because one of the major costs in a business, if you take in procurement and cost of goods, is supply chain.