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Top 6 Retail Trends & Supply Chain Planning Challenges in 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

Recessionary environments cause disruptions in the manufacturing industry around the globe, leading to long lead times, shortages, rising prices, and complications in transportation lines. The better the forecast and replenishment decisions, the higher the financial benefit and the lower the waste. in 2021 compared to the year before.

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Ranking Journals: Academic Journal Guide 2021 (“ABS List”)

SCM Research

The following OSCM journals were given a grade of 3: Decision Sciences , International Journal of Production Economics , Journal of Business Logistics , Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management , Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and Supply Chain Management: An International Journal.

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Is Inventory Waste or an Asset?

Supply Chain Shaman

I am sitt ing in seat 4E on an evening flight to San Francisco thinking about my day. Cycle stock is the management of stock required to cycle through production runs and procurement buys effectively. There are two buffers in the supply chain: inventory and manufacturing capacity.

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Tips for Demonstrating the Value of Supply Chain Management to the C-Suite

RFgen

Discussion of topics like ERP implementation and asset utilization don’t mean the same thing to CEOs as they do to procurement and logistics specialists. According to Global Manufacturing, the megabrand continually looks for ways to make the supply chain better and faster. One such example is Wal-Mart.

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Tips for Demonstrating the Value of Supply Chain Management to the C-Suite

RFgen

Discussion of topics like ERP implementation and asset utilization don’t mean the same thing to CEOs as they do to procurement and logistics specialists. According to Global Manufacturing, the megabrand continually looks for ways to make the supply chain better and faster. One such example is Wal-Mart.

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Podcast: Roberto Reichard on Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Capital Projects

Requis

I then moved to San Francisco and joined Bechtel. This is how I learned about the concept of “retained carbon”, or embodied carbon, which is essentially the carbon that is used in the extraction and manufacture of materials used in a project. Safety and quality became key buying factors during procurement.