Logistics Viewpoints
JUNE 29, 2023
Configure to Order: This strategy involves customizing standard products based on customer specifications. Here is a summary of the key supply chain characteristics of each of the manufacturing strategy and how it impacts collaboration with suppliers.
Supply Chain Opz
JANUARY 8, 2015
In this guest commentary, John McKeller , senior lecturer for the Wisconsin School of Business Grainger Center for Supply Chain Managemen t at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explains four key considerations for successfully integrating a firm’s strategy with supply chain management. Communicate and deploy the strategy.
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Supply Chain Shaman
JULY 30, 2022
However, two decades later, there is still no technology solution to enable demand visibility or help companies use channel data to translate demand into an inventory, replenishment, or manufacturing strategy. The decline in inventory turns uses cash. My question is, “Why?” Growth requires cash. Probably not.
Tompkins Blog
APRIL 15, 2014
RALEIGH, NC, April 15, 2014 — Is it important to connect your supply chain strategy with your business strategy? While global companies’ rate higher for cost reduction, inventory, customer service, and profitability, the degree of alignment is higher at North American companies. “We
FLEXE
MAY 12, 2017
Inventory that does not tie up large amounts of working capital and is not perishable. Most early-stage companies design supply chains out of pragmatism, not strategy. It can truly be a game-changing component of your business’ growth strategy. So what does that mean for how you plan for inventory? In reality….
Supply Chain Shaman
JULY 8, 2013
The first day that I worked with the Kimberly-Clark team, it was snowing in Neenah, Wisconsin. As I stomped the snow off of my boots to start the strategy day, I faced a room of disbelievers. Note the trends in operating margins and inventory turns. We have a diffusion of inventory in the channel with excess and shortfalls.
AB&R
JANUARY 10, 2019
For that reason, you may want to consider a project manager to help oversee your implementation to help drive your compliance strategy forward. New technology and processes will likely need to be implemented, and what’s more, your staff will need to be on board and fully trained with these new changes. North Carolina. North Dakota.
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