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A chat with Scott Phillips

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

My projects in Malaysia, Philippines, China, Indonesia and eventually Vietnam, ranged from customer service and order fulfillment, shop-floor planning, inventory management, import/export and procurement. The level of true SCM professionals that can build platforms for successful are few and far between.

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What Kind of Visibility Into Your Supply Chain Do You Really Need, and How Do You Get It?

Oracle SCM

Most companies weren't buying from China or Taiwan or Malaysia like they are today. One will say, "Keeping our inventory down." As late as the late 80s, at least for the majority of North American companies, supply chains were predominantly local and, perhaps, nationwide at most.

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7 Mini Case Studies: Successful Supply Chain Cost Reduction and Management

Logistics Bureau

The company was replenishing dealers’ inventory weekly, using direct shipment and cross-docking operations from source warehouses located near Deere & Company’s manufacturing facilities. The only option was to try to reduce levels of inventory, which, up to that point, had been kept very high to support a nine-week order cycle.

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Updated IT Subway Map: Major acquisitions in SC software

Supply Chain Movement

These are the key developments that are visualised on the 2016 version of Supply Chain Movement’s SCM IT Subway Map. SCM IT Subway Map 2016 EU. Two new software categories on the SCM IT Subway Map Europe this year are Supply Chain Risk Management and Order Management Systems. By Martijn Lofvers. >>Please Choose country.

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3PL Subway 2015: Strategic movements among logistics providers

Supply Chain Movement

SCM 3PL Subway 2015. The 2015 Annual Third Party Logistics Study also reveals that both sides regard themselves as being successful, and shippers are seeing positive results again this year: an average logistics cost reduction of 9%, an average inventory cost reduction of 5% and an average fixed logistics cost reduction of 15%.