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2013 Third-Party Logistics Study

Supply Chain Movement

The success of the third-party logistics industry is evident in the generally high marks given to 3PLs by respondents to a survey as part of the 2013 17th Annual Third Party Logistics Study, which identifies trends and explores how both 3PLs and shippers are using these relationships to improve and enhance their businesses and supply chains.

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#15 in 15 years ….not bad! NC State breaks into the Gartner Supply Chain Program Rankings

Supply Chain View from the Field

Our program engages our 20 top corporate partners to develop projects across a wide variety of different areas, including market intelligence, logistics, inventory, value stream mapping, cost management, supply management, transportation, performance metrics, and others (see Project Breakdown ,).

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ASCM 2023 Conference and a Conversation with ASCM’s CEO

Supply Chain Matters

One prominent speaker was MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi, Director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics , who specifically addressed advanced AI’s impacts on supply chain processes and future decision-making. He described a good news situation where supply chain graduates are garnering multiple job offers right now.

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Highlights of Kinexions 2022 Customer Conference- Part Two

Supply Chain Matters

Risk aware was described as more dynamically flexible supply networks, the optimization of specific buffers such as capacity as well as inventory, or flexibility in supply chain network design. Many of the panelists discussed the ongoing talent management or brain drain challenges of supply chain management.

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Creating an analytics organization for supply chain

Supply Chain View from the Field

analytics group noted that a lot of what they had done was in constraint management and inventory and demand. In the supply chain area, we are certainly seeing a strong need for analytics in areas like collaborative forecasting, inventory management, production planning, and logistics network design.

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Supply Chain Collaboration – The New Way to Drive Value!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Supply chain collaboration is a hot topic today and no wonder: companies that collaborate effectively across the supply chain have enjoyed dramatic reductions in inventories and costs, together with improvements in speed, service levels, and customer satisfaction. Blog post and permission to publish provided by Milan Vyas.

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A “Swiss Army Knife” of Supply Chain Talent Requirements: Views from a Former Wolfpack Student

NC State SCRC

He became a director at that point, working with sales planning, inventory planning, and financial planning, and pulling together the Sales and Operations Planning team, as well as introducing new products and eliminating obsolescence. in inventory, and well over double the sales volume. Today, we are at 5.5M