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The Renewed Importance of Production Planning and Scheduling in the New Normal- The Talent Challenge

Supply Chain Matters

This update addresses the equally growing importance for securing and retaining needed talent for companies who are considering or have invested in more responsive Cloud based software technology supporting tactical and operational planning supporting process and batch manufacturing process environments.

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Labor Strike Targeting Three U.S. Automakers- Update Four

Supply Chain Matters

As expected, with this industry’s just-in-time inventory management practices, the implications of the work stoppages cascading across individual automaker’s tiered supplier networks.

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

NC State SCRC

He started in supply planning, overseeing over $100M of spend in batteries and other categories. 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.

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Supply Chain Predictions for 2018: Real-Time, Innovation, Cognitive, Blockchain, Industry-Academic Partnerships, and Taking a Stand!

NC State SCRC

[Linton] co-authored The Living Supply Chain , which argues that “Speeding up the supply chain is at the root of everything that is good: improved revenue, reduced working capital, higher profitability, and less obsolete inventory. ” A control approach creates friction.

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Labor Strike Targeting Three U.S. Automakers-Update Three

Supply Chain Matters

In this third Supply Chain Matters reader update, we highlight the ongoing supply chain and manufacturing implications of the labor strike involving the three U.S. big three automakers with implications to their supply networks vs. prior strategies in targeting just one. unionized auto companies.