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Supply Chain Resilience. Really?

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, I speak at the North American Manufacturing Association, Manufacturing Leadership Conference, in Nashville on the use of data to improve supply chain resilience. Interestingly, in Q3 2023, 38% of manufacturers, distributors and retailers missed their target for revenue guidance for the quarter. The result was restatement.

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Market Beat. Four Thumbs Down and One Thumb Up.

Supply Chain Shaman

Globally ten percent of jobs are in manufacturing, while 37% are associated with supply chain management. They are impatient that they know more about pizza’s status for lunch before their zoom meeting than the inbound shipment status for their critical manufacturing run. Reflection. The supply chain career is new. Thumbs Up.

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7 Best Supply Chain Books of All Time

Supply Chain Opz

Based on this information, the ranking of 7 best scm books of all time can be identified as below, - We perform the search queries in Google Scholar. Only SCM books visible in Google Scholar are qualified. - But we believe this is pretty normal because everyone can cite marketing books, but not everyone will cite SCM books.

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Supply Chain Challenges and Optimization in times of Disruption

ThroughPut

Supply Chain Management or SCM involves facilitating the end-to-end movement of goods from the point of origin to consumption. SCM includes the movement and storage of raw materials, work-in-process inventory, and finished goods. Meeting the unique requirements of clients is another big hurdle for most manufacturers.

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Preparing for the Third Act

Supply Chain Shaman

These solutions bundled Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), and Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) suites into the architectures, but there was a problem. CRM and SRM functionality did not fit the needs for manufacturing-based companies (CRM was too lightweight. Just as you buy, remember why.

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Joining Forces for the Third Act

Supply Chain Shaman

They put supply chain into a traditional framework of CRM, SCM and SRM and the world has moved past this. As a result, it is hard for them to get a clear vision of what to build and how to go to market in the manufacturing space. I think that SAP lacks focus and a basic understanding of the business problem.

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Supply Chain Optimization Challenges in times of Disruption

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Supply Chain Management or SCM involves facilitating the end-to-end movement of goods from the point of origin to consumption. SCM includes the movement and storage of raw materials, work-in-process inventory, and finished goods. Meeting the unique requirements of clients is another big hurdle for most manufacturers.