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Supply Chain Planning in Emerging Markets: Four Points to Remember

ToolsGroup

Joseph Ludorf, executive director of supply chain at our pharmaceutical customer Cipla Medpro describes their situation this way, “When it comes to transporting medicine, there are strict requirements for each product with regards to temperature control and the type of vehicles in which each can be transported.

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22 HR & management professionals share the most effective ways for managers to retain their best warehouse workers

6 River Systems

In fact, warehousing accounted for the largest portion of jobs added in the transportation and warehousing sector in June, about 61,000 of 99,000 total jobs. We did this by tying metrics to their workload and included those metrics in our weekly all-hands meetings.

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KPI Key Performance Indicators in Supply Chain & Logistics

Logistics Bureau

Transportation. A KPI is a metric… but not just any metric. A KPI is a metric focused on a KEY element of business, departmental, or team performance. There is really nothing wrong with capturing a lot of metrics, especially with today’s powerful analytics software solutions to help. Warehousing.

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