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Uh-Oh! Insights On How P&G Failed And What This Means For You

Supply Chain Shaman

In 2011, Yannis Skoufalos became the Global Product Supply Officer at Procter & Gamble. Discontinued in 2011. 2011-Divestiture of Pringles to Kellogg for 2.7B$ 2014-Sale of IAMS to Mars for 2.9B$ 2015-Sale of 43 P&G Beauty Brands to Coty for 12.5B$. Yannis transitioned from the role after eight years in 2019.

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Supply Chain Risk Management: Could You Face a Category 4 Supply Chain Disaster?

Kinaxis

information is courtesy of this site: https://www.cga.ct.gov/2011/rpt/2011-R-0389.htm It requires corporations or entities with at least 10 service stations in a county to have access to at least one portable generator.”

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ToolsGroup Names David Barton General Manager of North America

ToolsGroup

Barton succeeds Patrick Smith, who served as managing director for North America from 2011 to February 2019. Barton will be responsible for all operations, including sales, professional services, customer success and administration.

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This Week in Logistics News (September 7 – 13)

Logistics Viewpoints

This is the end of a wonderful run of years, starting in 2011, where the dates read the same frontwards and backwards for a week+. After next Thursday (9/19/19), there will not be an official palindrome week until 2021 (we don’t count putting a 0 in front of the month around here). And to quote one off […].

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Identity Theft, Trucking Style

Talking Logistics

According to a September 2013 white paper published by CargoNet and the Cargo Security Alliance , 8 percent of cargo thefts in 2013 (as of August 31, 2013) were due to fictitious pick-ups, up from 5 percent in 2011. Fifty-five percent of all reported fictitious pick-ups from 2011 through 2013 occurred in California.

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Introducing Supply Chain Power Influencers on Twitter

Supply Chain Opz

In 2011, a research team consists of the experts from University of Michigan and Yahoo, Inc published the article named " Everyone’s an Influencer: Quantifying Influence on Twitter ". " in the attempt to identify top social media writers and experts on Twitter.

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7 Principles of Supply Chain Management Explained

Supply Chain Opz

For example, in 2011 Amazon initiated a program called Amazon Prime (free 2-day shipping and discounted 1-day shipping). I totally agree that we should focus on the customers needs but this doesnt seem to be enough these days. The reason is that your customers may not know what they need until your competitors offer something different.