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5 Best Logistics Books to Keep Within Reach

Supply Chain Opz

Are you looking for logistics management books? In this article, we will show you 5 books that'll help you learn logistics faster than any other logistics book. In the United States, the median wage for a Logistics Manager is around $70,000 annually. Best Logistics Book for Beginners: 1.

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Using Analytics to Measure S&OP Effectiveness

Silvon Software

A Few Important KPIs for Tracking S&OP Performance As a long-time provider of business intelligence applications for manufacturing and distribution businesses, Silvon has played a key role in helping our clients define and implement performance metrics that align their S&OP initiatives with their corporate goals. logistics firms).

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Mitigate Supplier Risk with QAD SRM

QAD

This could result in late shipments that impact customer satisfaction, unknowingly working with a supplier that employs child labor or does not pay a fair wage, engaging with a supplier in a poor financial position and other unsatisfactory factors. Examples of performance include quality metrics or logistics metrics.

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What Is PPV? Purchase Price Variance Explained

Precoro

One of the ways that procurement teams improve this figure is by tracking and improving the purchase price variance (PPV) metric. In this article, we'll explain what PPV is, why it matters, and how tracking this metric can benefit your procurement processes. Here are some other ways to balance PPV metrics.

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Prescriptive Analytics for Supply Chain Optimization: 6 Powerful Use Cases 

ThroughPut

In the context of supply chain management, prescriptive analytics leverages raw historical data and performance data to determine the best probable courses of action, supporting supply chain decisions through network design, inventory and warehouse optimization, and supplier management.

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Improving supply chain efficiency

Taulia

In today’s challenging market, companies face multiple challenges, from shortages of crucial components to port congestion, high shipping costs, logistics delays and uneven customer demand. As such, an efficient supply chain is one in which orders are fulfilled by suppliers on time, while minimizing operational costs.

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Added Boeing Developments Related to Production Quality Challenges

Supply Chain Matters

The challenge for large aircraft manufacturers are that assembly lines occupy cavernous production line facilities and that moving an aircraft off the line involves considerable logistical, timing and added worker challenges.

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