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An Observation on Corporate and Societal Resiliency and the Strength of the Human Spirit

Enterra Insights

However, during last week’s trip, even though the focus covered the same areas of business concern and system resiliency as the original trip, it was vastly different where Ukraine was concerned. This was the same ensemble of people that I encountered in the Middle East and in Iraq during the Iraq War.

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Five Hidden Skills that Military Veterans Bring to Logistics

Material Handling & Logistics

Logistics for the US Military is largely moving people, ammunition, equipment and weapons systems from one country to another country as fast and efficiently as possible to give the military commander on the ground the most effective forces possible in the shortest time possible. This is essentially a force-on-force game.

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How Consumer Behavior is Changing

Enterra Insights

As a result, we found new ways to combine and analyze data in the Enterra Global Insights and Optimization System to help find answers. At Enterra Solutions ® we found ourselves supporting clients faced with lots of questions about consumer behavior. As Kaul notes, “CPGs are building AI models to help them predict general demand curves.

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Different Strokes for Different Folks (to Yield Better Results?)?

Supply Chain Shaman

The systems which we have today stalled in the late 1990’s with the evolution of extended ERP (Advanced Planning Systems bolted to Enterprise Resource Planning in applications like SAP APO and Oracle SCP) and extensive vendor consolidation of best-of-breed providers. The approach is limiting. They are just too inflexible.

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SCRC Supply Chain Index contributes again to the 2021 Wall Street Journal Top 250 Best Managed Companies

NC State SCRC

Cisco Systems. This was felt most drastically in the last few years, when such events as 9/11, the war in Iraq, the West Coast port workers’ strike, and increased regulatory and customs delays brought supply chain operations to a standstill. The top companies in 2011 included the following: Microsoft. Johnson and Johnson.

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o9 Solutions Partners with Extraordinary Leaders to help executives Navigate and Accelerate their Digital Transformation Journeys

o9 Solutions

Tony Saldanha spent twenty-seven years at Procter and Gamble leading global IT and shared services strategies, IT systems integration, and implementing technology-enabled business solutions.

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Managing for Daily Improvement: Bridging the Gap Across Teams and KPIs

Talking Logistics

He then led the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) for Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) in Iraq and Kuwait. Prior to joining the Black Belt team, he was the General Manager of Transplace International where responsibilities included systems integration, process implementation, and P&L management.

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