SCM Research

JUNE 28, 2012

The Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Logistics & Supply Chains , which meets virtually and at the annual Summit on the Global Agenda in the United Arab Emirates, has just published its second annual report.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 7, 2023

Author’s note: I wrote a slightly longer version of this post in November 2012. I’m sharing it again today with some minor edits because I believe the topic remains very relevant today. Most of the time, when people talk about innovation in supply chain management and logistics, the focus is on technology (e.g.,

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Supply Chain Network

JANUARY 26, 2012

But 2012 is an extra-special year; it carries heavy historical baggage chock full of dire predictions. Nostradamus painted a bleak picture of massive destruction and mayhem brought about by a comet in 2012. In the tradition of David Letterman, (in no particular order) let’s hit the Top 10 Supply Chain Predictions for 2012.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 29, 2024

In 2012, when I started Supply Chain Insights , I believed that I could revolutionize the purchase of supply chain planning solutions by initiating a rating and review process across trading partners. The investment in these outdated concepts is an opportunity cost to improve outcomes. Here I share how to challenge the status quo. Reflection.

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 21, 2022

The Supply Chains To Admire report analyzed improvement, performance, and value for the years 2012-2021. Supply chain is easier to say than define. Twenty-two companies outperform their peer group. Supply Chains to Admire 2022 – Report v4.0-web. Powered By EmbedPress.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The previous survey had been in 2012, and the compound annual growth rate in the number of warehouses over that time was 4.0%. The US Energy Information Administration, within the DOE, does periodic surveys to understand the total energy consumption and consumption across different types of buildings. Their last survey was in 2018.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In 2012, I placed the first alignment study in the field. Organizational Alignment 2012. If you answer the survey, I will gladly give you a custom analysis of your organization against the peer group. To respond, follow this link. To entice you to participate let’s look at the data more closely. Organizational Alignment.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In 2012 and 2013, they began using external consultants to model their Asian supply chain. We don’t want to be as reliant on long supply chains that can easily be broken.” One key tool they use to accomplish this is a supply chain design solution from Coupa.

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The Logistics of Logistics

APRIL 14, 2023

In 2012, after managing advertising campaigns for top-tier brands for many years, Paul and his wife co-founded Bulu Box, a health and wellness subscription box service that provides product samples to customers. As a former D1 college football player, Paul is a driven and competitive individual with a passion for leading his team to success.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

She was asked to identify the top ten worries supply chain managers had in 2012 that they didn’t have in 1982 and vice versa.[4] 4] Most of the items she listed as worries in 1982 that weren’t as great of a concern in 2012 had to do with paperwork. Below is her top ten list of supply chain worries in 2012: 1.

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SCM Research

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

I have attended the CSCMP’s Supply Chain Management Educators’ Conference (SCMEC) in Atlanta. The conference offers a unique opportunity to meet many researchers, whose faces are obscured behind references for the rest of the year.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

When we compare the results of P&G to its peer group for 2012-2021, P&G outperforms in inventory turns and margin but underperforms in growth and asset utilization. As shown in Figure 1, the results for the period of 2012-2021 tell the story. Keith was an undisputed leader in building talent to drive manufacturing excellence.

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SCM Research

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Three more SCM-related journals have announced the winners of best paper awards. First, the Journal of Operations Management has awarded the Jack Meredith Best Paper Award to Speier and her co-authors for their article Global supply chain design considerations: Mitigating product safety and security risks.

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The Logistics of Logistics

OCTOBER 16, 2023

About Andy Johnston Andy Johnston joined GEODIS in 2012 and currently serves as the Senior Director of Innovation for the Americas region. Andy is the Senior Director of Innovation at GEODIS , a leading global logistics provider acknowledged for its expertise across all aspects of the supply chain.

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Supply Chain Movement

JANUARY 7, 2013

The Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry faced another year of challenges from economic turbulence and weak consumer confidence in 2011. Given the volatility and rapid pace of promotional activities and product innovation, the gradual increase in forecast error since 2009 comes as no surprise.

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EcoVadis

OCTOBER 21, 2011

UN Global 2012 defines supply chain sustainability as: “the management of environmental, social and economic impacts, and the encouragement of good governance practices, throughout the lifecycles of goods and services. This definition was uncovered recently by one of our expert analysts.

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SCM Research

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

First, the Decision Sciences Journal has selected the article Managing Differentiation-Integration Duality in Supply Chain Integration by Terjesen, Patel and Sanders for its Best Paper Award for 2012. Finally, the judges for the 2012 Harold E. Fearon Best Paper Award were evenly split between two articles. part 1/2 ). Terjesen, S.,

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The Network Effect

AUGUST 12, 2014

In the US, healthcare expenditure per person has risen by almost 78 per cent since 2000 to USD 8,700 in 2011 (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 2012). In China healthcare spending might almost triple between 2010 and 2020 to USD 1 trillion per year by 2020 (Bloomberg 2012). in 2008 to 7.6 per cent by 2020.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Back in 2012, Axit (a Siemens company and a Talking Logistics sponsor) together with the Institute for Cloud Computing (IFCC) surveyed over 130 supply chain and logistics professionals across various industries in Europe to determine the state of cloud computing in logistics and how it might evolve in the years ahead. percent from 2012!

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 1, 2022

To understand this point, I contrast the results of the Gartner Top 25 Award Winners published in 2022 (last week) against their peer group from 2012 to 2021. In contrast, 19% have an operating margin less than a comparative company for 2012-2021. The red cells indicate that the company is underperforming against its peer group.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

« Mapping Your Way To Faster Shopping | Main | Indicators from the 2012 Holiday Buying Period Point to Significant Change and Fulfillment Challenges » Headline for the 2012 Holiday Buying Season- Overcoming the Challenges of Fulfillment Complexity. Posted by Bob Ferrari on November 16, 2012 9:50 AM | Permalink.

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Freightos

AUGUST 19, 2024

A Personal Note I founded Freightos in 2012 based on the personal pains that I had experienced while shipping goods around the world. It’s a truly better global freight industry that ultimately reduces supply chain costs, improves speed and agility, and keeps goods moving.

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Material Handling & Logistics

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The figures indicate that price pressures in the production pipeline are advancing steadily. producer prices rose more than forecast in October for the biggest jump in six years on broad gains in costs for goods and services, a Labor Department report showed on Nov. The producer-price index rose 0.6% from September after a 0.2%

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Supply Chain Digest

APRIL 19, 2016

New Numbers Now Say Growth Up Just 3 Percent Since 2012, not the 6 Percent We Thought. US Manufacturing Output Still well below Peak Year 2007 Levels

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 16, 2013

in sales (estimated 2012). in revenues in 2012. in sales (estimated 2012). in sales (estimated 2012). In 2012, the company had revenues of $4.9B. The 2012 revenues were 0.4% in sales (estimated 2012). in sales in 2012. in sales (estimated 2012). Con-Way Freight has 9.4% had $54.1B

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The Network Effect

AUGUST 26, 2014

Within a decade, the number of FDA warning letters sent to medical device manufacturers has increased threefold, from 61 letters in 2002 to 181 in 2012 (EC A 2012). China published new GMP guidelines in 2012 and called on pharmaceutical companies to pursue GMP certification by the end of 2013.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

DECEMBER 18, 2012

This commentary is an interim follow-up to this authors previous Infosys Limited guest commentary: Headline for the 2012 Holiday Buying Season- Overcoming the Challenges of Fulfillment Complexity. Posted by Bob Ferrari on December 18, 2012 9:01 AM | Permalink. December 2012. November 2012. October 2012. April 2012.

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SCM Research

JANUARY 5, 2014

In a previous post, I presented a discussion about the relationship between transaction cost economics (TCE) and supply chain management (SCM) , which was started by Williamson (2008) and continued by Zipkin (2012). In their 2012 article, Supply Chain-Wide Consequences of Transaction Risks and Their Contractual Solutions , Wever et al.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

As shown in Table 2, for the period of 2012-2021, Mondelez is 27 th out of 35 companies in the food sector in driving improvement. Mondelez Comparison to Nestle and Industry Average for the Period of 2012-2021. Mondelez also underperformed the industry average in growth, inventory turns, and Price-to-Book valuations. The net result?

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The Logistics of Logistics

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With an educational and professional background in finance, Shannon joined the logistics industry in 2012 with Knight Transportation out of Phoenix, Arizona.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

DECEMBER 31, 2012

« Indicators from the 2012 Holiday Buying Period Point to Significant Change and Fulfillment Challenges | Main | Information Driven Innovation in Supply Chain » The Learning from the 2012 Holiday Buying Season: Balanced Investments in Online and Physical Supply Chain Fulfillment Capabilities. Post a comment. (If

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MARCH 4, 2012

« Mobile Gift Cards | Main | Infosys team at Pulse 2012 - Day 1 » Infosys team at Pulse 2012 - Day 0. I am back again in Vegas for IBM Pulse 2012. Then onwards, IBM is enhancing it every year, from a mere service management in 2008 to Dynamic Infrastructure to optimization of world infrastructure in 2012.

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Supply Chain Network

MARCH 2, 2012

In the past two months, IBM has made three strategic moves that bolster its SmarterCommerce portfolio. Acquisitions of Emptoris and Demandtec expanded sourcing and pricing portfolios while the new version of IBM ILOG LogicNet Plus XE further enhances supply chain network capabilities.

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The Network Effect

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Supply-chain visibility is an important if not essential enabler for the more advanced outsourcing approaches; therefore, IT investments and outsourcing must be considered simultaneously.

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EcoVadis

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Increasing legislation, such as the Dodd-Frank Act and the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act in 2012 , particularly in the US are compelling companies to take a more robust approach to monitoring third party activities.

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The Logistics of Logistics

DECEMBER 8, 2012

The 2009 rates slowly increased to the current 2012 level. In November 2012, the CPM was $2.48/mile, Read the full article in November/December 2012 edition, Pharmaceutical Outsourcing , Vol. The best indicator of ground freight cost is the US Freight Rate Index, CPM (cost per mile). In 2008, the rate reached a high of $2.50/mile

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ivalua

JANUARY 29, 2021

He also holds an Executive Master in International Purchasing Management from ESSEC Business School (2012). Frédéric Lino obtained in 1990 a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering (Compiegne, University of Technology), completed in 1994 by a PHD in Biomechanics and Ergonomics (Paris Saclay).

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