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Supply Chain Segmentation: One Size Doesn’t Fit All

BlueYonder

Last month JDA teamed up with IndustryWeek and Altera Corporation to present a Webcast on the topic of supply chain segmentation titled: One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Altera’s Supply Chain Segmentation Journey to Profitable Growth. Featured Manufacturing Supply Chain'

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Agility and flexibility in the age of digital supply chains – Insights from the 2017 Supply Chain & Logistics EMEA summit & expo

Kinaxis

Innovation in the warehouse: Markus KĂĽckelhaus of DHL trend research, in two separate panels gave very compelling presentations on the innovation DHL is driving in the warehouse. Through the pilots that DHL conducted, AR is showing tremendous productivity gains in the warehouse such as a 25% gain in picking productivity.

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7 Supply Chain Challenges That Exist Today

4WL Consulting

. #5 Identifying the Right KPIs Identifying and implementing the right KPIs to manage and operate supply chains effectively remains one of the biggest problems in supply chain management. Furthermore, it is difficult to agree on the number of metrics to consider – how much is too much? #6

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Global Supply Chain Management: Best Practices and Trends

HICX Solutions

Supply chain integration Supply chain software provides businesses with full supply chain integration by ensuring that the various supply chain segments communicate seamlessly. We’ll now further explore some additional capabilities emerging in the software space.

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Secret Confessions of a Supply Chain Junkie

BlueYonder

There are tons of articles, white papers and blogs about today’s supply chain challenges: globalization, off-shore manufacturing, supply chain segmentation, big data, mobility, social media, price optimization, warehouse throughput, labor scheduling and in-store picking.

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The State of Supply Chain Management: An Interview with CSCMP’s Rick Blasgen

BlueYonder

still needs to make repairs and further invest, but in other countries, for example, there are no cold supply chains or distribution capabilities with extensive consolidation functions, or warehousing and transportation functions that are seamlessly connected like we enjoy for the most part here.

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Resilient and Cost Efficient Supply Chains

Operations and Supply Chain Management

The authors say, however, that managers actually can reduce the risk of major disruptions while improving supply chain efficiency by taking certain steps, such as supply chain segmentation, to achieve both goals. So what’s a manager to do to keep the supply chain both resilient and efficient?