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European Supply Chain & Logistics Summit 2014

Supply Chain Movement

Venue: Palau de Congressos de Catalunya, Hotel Rey Juan Carlos I, Barcelona, Spain. Stephen O’Mullan, Executive Director, Global Procurement & EMEA Fulfilment Operations, Dell. Moving beyond existing approaches to Continuous Improvement and Lean in order to engrain them at the heart of your business.

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7 Rules of Fashion Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Opz

Zara who is the fashion retailer in Spain, has managed to get the attention from academics and the first case study about its strategies was published by Harvard Business School in 2003. Fashion SCM 2.0 However, there is one company that stands out. In 2004, Kasra Ferdows, Michael A.

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Supply Chain Roundtable Series: Optimising the Manufacturing Supply Chain

Unleashed

Often, we end up asking the partner in Germany or Spain or somewhere, ‘Can you air freight this? You’ve got to be really leaning into your customers and getting as much information from them as possible, but also trying to find as many similar products as possible to gain some kind of insight from them.

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10 Vital Supply Chain Lessons from the Coronavirus Pandemic!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Iran and Spain were highly infected. Total cost of ownership (TCO) is a Procurement sourcing methodology which entails taking into account all aspects of doing business with a supplier, not just unit costs. Shortly thereafter the tsunami of infections overtook Europe. Italy locked down the country. And the U.S.