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Peloton’s Supply Chain Strategy Turnabout

Supply Chain Matters

This week, the company announced a reversal in manufacturing and supply chain strategy, as well as a major turnabout. Supply chain strategy, process, talent and enabling technologies each play important roles. The company’s inventory levels of unsold equipment have reportedly swelled to over $1 billion.

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Taking a Holistic View on Inventory May Lead to Change in Strategy

Talking Logistics

Inventory optimization has always been a challenge while designing and planning a supply chain. A variety of barriers can impact an effective inventory strategy, such as working in functional silos and demand/supplier volatility¹. Asking the Right Inventory Questions. Where and in What Form Should Inventory Be Held?

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Supply Visibility: More Important Than Ever. Yet Elusive.

Supply Chain Shaman

Linkedin Comment Donald Cavin Data Warehousing Consultant at Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-James Cancer Hospital & Solove Research Institute. Design an Over-Arching Strategy and Building Blocks. Build a multi-year visibility strategy. Also insufficient pay to attract truckers, longshoremen, etc.

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Food and Beverage Industry Reevaluating Strategies to Combat Coronavirus

USC Consulting Group

“It is imperative that our federal government now begin to lay out a strategy for ensuring the continued operation of the critical infrastructure industries,” Anderson said at the time. Inventory management more of a priority. In a statement , ADPI CEO and President Blake Anderson said at the time that the U.S.

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Electrifying Changes: How the UAW-Big 3 Strike is Reshaping the Automotive World

QAD

Ensuring adequate inventory while maintaining quality standards is now a pivotal concern for suppliers. Let’s look at the agreement with GM, whose Ultium Cells plant in Warren, Ohio, is already UAW. The strike’s impact drives a need to modify contingency plans and strategies considering this and future disruptions.

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Supply Chain Basics with Jason Miller

The Logistics of Logistics

Jason Miller (PhD The Ohio State University) is a tenured Associate Professor of Logistics and the John D. The department educates students to succeed in careers such as procurement, manufacturing, inventory management, warehousing, transportation, and customer service. Manufacturing strategies. Inventory management.

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Shorter Supply Chains are Upending Globalization Patterns

Enterra Insights

As China’s economy slows, its leaders worry that emerging foreign government and transnational corporate strategies focused on trade with China will make matters worse. ”[2] The bottom line is this: Companies are likely to continue to pursue their de-risking strategies. In many respects, they only have themselves to blame.