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Smarter, Low-Risk Commodity Buying

ToolsGroup

By FinStock South Africa. The importance of having the right inventory at the right price to service customer demand is crucial. The trade-off between low cost, long lead time inventory and higher priced short lead time inventory is a daily decision to balance the risk of unsellable stock versus stock outs.

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How Do You Define a Mature Supply Chain Planning Organization? (Part 1)

Supply Chain Shaman

Comprehensive view of source, make and deliver. Most often the focus is on transportation or logistics, but does not take into consideration the trade-offs between make, source and deliver. Focus is on make, source and deliver together. Focus on the level of inventory. Tomorrow, I board my long flight from South Africa.

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Taking the Hill

Supply Chain Shaman

When companies look at singular metrics (labor costs or inventory), they have moved backwards. Industries that have formed cross-functional leadership teams combining source, make and deliver together have made the fastest progress. I will be writing the first draft of the manuscript on my way to South Africa on May 30th.

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Traceability for manufacturers today

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Having an ERP system that is relevant for the needs of food manufacturers ensures that factors like material requirements planning, inventory management, recipe, and batch control, plus traceability, all function effectively. Most recently, Nestle South Africa recalled its Kit Kat products over possible contaminants.

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How Can We Heal the Global Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Shaman

In the last six months, in my travels, I have presented to supply chain teams in China, Belgium, France, Germany, Peru, Mexico, Netherlands, South Africa, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. Inventory Turns. Better performance in inventory turns than the peer group average for the period of 2006-2015. Operating Margin.

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When local problems go global

DELMIA Quintiq

It brings to bear Quintiq’s world record breaking optimization techniques on the modern supply chain, enabling it to automatically consider and adapt in real time to: Multiple supply chain sourcing options in complex global networks. Flexible inventory buffer windows. Complex resource capability rules.

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Outage Raises Potential Medical Isotope Shortage

Exiger Perspectives

Global production of Mo-99 occurs at six major research reactors : HFR (Netherlands), BR-2 (Belgium), LVR-15 (Czech Republic), MARIA (Poland), OPAL (Australia), and SAFARI-1 (South Africa). and Belgium-based National Institute for Radioelements — source Mo-99 from the HFR Reactor. government — Curium U.S. LLC (the U.S.