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Supply Chain Management Books

SCM Research

I recently conducted a survey with leading supply chain management researchers and asked them a simple question: “If you were teaching a doctoral seminar, what would you assign as the [.] Patterson, and (6) Foundations of Inventory Theory by Paul Zipkin. de Kok & Stephen C. Monczka, Robert B. Handfield, Larry C.

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Executive's Guide to Supply Chain Research

Supply Chain Opz

As a matter of fact, there are so many practices invented by practitioners like us that have very strong influences over the academic world, for example, Vendor Managed Inventory, Theory of Constraints, SCOR Model, S&OP or CPFR. Then the body of knowledge has been extended and there are many new lean tools (applied research).

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Top Ten Tips to Boost Supply Chain Performance to Best in Class

Logistics Bureau

I’ll also be providing some step by step guides and tools on these at our Free Seminars Series in February and March, but more on that later. Therefore, you may experience build up in inventory levels, unbalanced inventory deployment and the consequential impacts on customer service and cost. If you haven’t already, survey them!

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Common Supply Chain Mistakes to Avoid

Logistics Bureau

At our seminars I often share case studies demonstrating the impact of not getting this right. By simply including logistics activity in the rating criteria for customer service surveys, more companies would realise that some of their customers are being over-serviced while others feel that customer service in logistics is poor.

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Why Your Supply Chain Isn’t Best in Class

Logistics Bureau

I’m actually going to go into each of these 8 Tips in a lot more detail at our next Free Breakfast Seminar. Very few are actually ‘designed’ What that means of course, is that most Distribution Networks become miss-aligned over time and this leads to excess inventory, excess costs and poor customer service.

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Spotlight on PROMAT 2019: USA trends in DC Equipment and Digital Consciousness

Logistics Bureau

Promat is North America’s largest materials handling equipment and systems exhibition, featuring over 950 exhibitors and 150 educational seminars. Inventory and network optimisation is forecast to reach 75% adoption over the next two years, and 90% over the next five years. Tracking inventory! What is driving this?

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