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Ferguson’s Commitment to Supply Chain Excellence Drives Customer Satisfaction

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The company sources goods from 36,000 suppliers out of 30 nations. The goods flow through 3 import centers, 14 strategically located distribution centers in North America, 106 final-mile shipping hubs, and nearly 1,700 branch locations. We have 10 regional distribution centers in the United States and we have one in Canada.

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Supply Chain Normalcy? Think Again.

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As consumer spending fell, the days of escalating ocean freight and extreme shipping variability eased this year. United States Inflation Rates and GDP Inflation is the highest in forty years. Build in-market sourcing. Rationalize global strategies to focus on building markets based on in-market sourcing.

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The Fallacy of the Self-driving Supply Chain

Supply Chain Shaman

Headline news that day was Theranos’, once-Silicon Valley star Elizabeth Holmes, 38, sentenced to over 11 years in prison by a United States District Court for defrauding investors of her firm to revolutionize blood-testing technology. Why are orders not shipped on time? Nothing is farther from the truth.

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What is Supply Chain Decision Support? Are We Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic?

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While we speak of Artificial Intelligence (AI) enablement and better engines (think math) within existing systems, few question why we cannot drive an end-to-end signal across decision support frameworks. Consider social security management in the United States without a social security number. I learned the hard way.

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The VF Corporation Invested in Supply Chain Agility Before COVID Made “Agility” the New Buzzword

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Mr. Bailey has worked most of his career at VF – as an industrial engineer in facilities, in strategic sourcing, running offshore operations, and now as the person in charge of the company’s entire supply chain. VFC’s supply chain sourced over 410 million units of apparel, footwear, and accessories in their last fiscal year.

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Time to Rethink Sourcing Rare Earth Elements

Supply Chain Game Changer

Strategic National Stockpiles and Sourcing for the National Interest! These Rare Earth Elements have long ago been abandoned for mining and processing here in the United States and are part of our reliance on Chinese sources of supply. Subscribe Here! Email Address. Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Pile it up!

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The Global Trade Compliance Market is Crazy!

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The other types of penalties involve not paying a high enough duty by not using the proper Harmonized System commodity classification. The Harmonized System is a commodity description and coding system, which forms the basis upon which all goods are identified for customs. It is used by customs authorities worldwide.

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