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Pandemic Lessons For Supply Chain Leaders

Supply Chain Shaman

The Failure of Existing Demand Planning Solutions. During the pandemic, supply chain leaders turned off their demand planning solutions. Also, the solutions lacked flexibility. With fixed models and hard-wired data feeds, teams could not adjust the planning systems to use consumption data or market indicators. The reason?

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Battered by Fierce Winds. Will E2open Survive?

Supply Chain Shaman

This month, in an unprecedented move, the United States National Park Service bought two homes for $700,000 to tear down and return the area to public beach. This notice of the Rodanthe house purchase by the National Park Service was listed in my news feed above an article that Elliott Management Partners announced a confirmed 13.8%

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The Fallacy of the Self-driving Supply Chain

Supply Chain Shaman

As a developer working on the braking software of an automatic car for the past eight years, he constantly tells me that it is not easy, and all of the estimates are too waaaay too positive. There is no magic ball on design: the organization’s reporting structures vary by culture and size. Supply Chain Reporting Structures.

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China Announces Export Controls on Five Critical Minerals

Exiger Perspectives

Mineral Uses Tungsten Artillery shells, armor plating, cutting tools, engine parts, airplane balancing weights. Following the announcement, prices for gallium and germanium surged, with gallium prices increasing by nearly 20% in the United States and Europe. It is not clear whether U.S. defense and technology.

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You Should Be Worried. Supply Chains Are Not OK. Let’s Lock Arms To Drive Change

Supply Chain Shaman

I find no agency or entity trying to find a holistic solution to global logistics. Pandemic demand for goods, and the shifts from a service economy, increased volume in southern California ports where 40% of ocean carriers unload for entry into the United States. The average purchase order changes 3-4X before shipment.

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Offset Tariffs by Cutting Supply Chain & Procurement Costs

QAD

Depending on the nature of your business, your trading partners or your location, this could include procurement strategies, demand planning, logistics, and global trade management among others. Mastering Direct Spend Management Procurement teams generally do not report to the chief supply chain officer.

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How a Venture Capital Fund Manages Procurement for Eleven Companies with One Software

Precoro

Read about a venture capital studio that implemented procurement software to manage purchases for 10 portfolio companies in addition to their own. Redbud Brands went from not knowing if a purchase order was approved to making every payment in time. “There was not a lot of structure,” Mr. Henson explained.