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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. However, all the projects were really, really good this year (as always!).

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

Supply Chain View from the Field

A senior executive from a large global manufacturer came to speak in my MBA class this week, and discussed the major shifts in global business that was occurring due to the emergence of omni-channel capabilities in the supply chain. This view of the supply chain is focused primarily on how we get inventory to the customer.

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

NC State SCRC

In speaking with a large manufacturer, I learned of a story where being too quick to be transparent worked against them. We had a huge snow and ice storm in Raleigh last week. Transparency is supposed to be a virtue in such cases, right? Not always. “On December 10, 2014, there was a big hiccup in one of our big supply markets.