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Handfield’s Supply Chain Analytics Predictions for 2014

Supply Chain View from the Field

I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. Here is what I expect to see next year: Global supply chain footprints will continue to expand.

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Global Luxury Management “Lifestyle” brands require push supply chain design customization

Supply Chain View from the Field

The supply chain design is very much focused on contract manufacturing to a network of factories. This is a challenging sourcing base, and global luxury brands must also pay attention to general labor and supply chain compliance policies. There has been a strong push for more US manufacturing in recent years.

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Supply Chain Market Report – August 2022

Elementum

The direct impact of this phenomenon is weakened purchasing power of other currencies relative to the Dollar. However, outside the emergence of a newly discovered technology or energy source, an economic boom seems unlikely at this time. Inventory-value decay. Other car manufacturers are expected to do the same.

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Three Reasons Why I Love Hadoop, and You Should Too!

Supply Chain Shaman

Hadoop is an open-source software framework written in Java for distributed storage and processing of large data sets on computer clusters. While the rest of the world was deep in a recession in 2008, and manufacturers were struggling with payroll decisions and layoffs, Hadoop innovation was in full swing.

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Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Derek Panchyshyn!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Our interactions spanned the full range of Customer-Supply Chain activities: materials costing, planning, materials availability, inventory, delivery performance, and logistics. In my case I graduated with an Electrical Engineering degree in 1990 and started my career with IBM Manufacturing in Toronto, doing test engineering.

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Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Derek Panchyshyn, SVP at ATX Networks!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Our interactions spanned the full range of Customer-Supply Chain activities: materials costing, planning, materials availability, inventory, delivery performance, and logistics. In my case I graduated with an Electrical Engineering degree in 1990 and started my career with IBM Manufacturing in Toronto, doing test engineering.

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What does the global trade chess board look like lately ?

NC State SCRC

Strategic global trade decisions take on a variety of postures, including defensive, offensive, informing sourcing strategy when it comes to trade agreements, duty positioning, country pairings, and and sourcing shifts to reach some sort of global optimization, which must also consider supplier capability, capacity, and duty.