Supply Chain Movement

MARCH 1, 2016

Integrated Supply Chain – Turkey. Organisation: Integrated Supply Chain. GROWTH IN A SLOWDOWN: How the new age of the Supply Chain can help Turkish companies outperform the market – and how ignoring it could accelerate their decline. Date: 4-5 May 2016. Venue: Hilton Istanbul Bomonti Hotel (TR).

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Supply Chain View from the Field

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In the September issue of the Supply Chain Management Review , Andreas Wieland from Berlin Technical University and I have published a thoughtpiece on the application of social responsible criteria to the supply chain. A program to audit suppliers across multiple tiers of the supply chain is an important first step.

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Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Long term market sustainability investments have taken our top brands into the “sleeping giant” BRIC territories and other potential profit rich, atlas white spaces. "Nevertheless, we continue to stride ahead of our markets vectored by ground-breaking innovations in premium categories.

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Supply Chain Network

JUNE 30, 2011

If the mantra of the real estate industry is “Location, Location, Location”, the new mantra of supply chain executives is fast becoming “Collaboration, Collaboration, Collaboration”. Take for example the BRIC nations and the impact this region has across the global economy. Let’s look at some examples….

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

That can make it difficult to meet your delivery times unless you take proactive steps now to minimize the risk in your supply chain. BRICS summit. The 9 th annual BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) summit is being held in Xiamen September 3-5, 2017 (the summit location rotates between its member countries).

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 9, 2020

” The other two so-called BRIC countries (Brazil and Russia) are faltering. As a result, Frost & Sullivan analysts say it’s time to look beyond the BRICs for economic growth. ” On the transportation and supply chain front, one trend in the U.S.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JANUARY 12, 2013

The story highlights some of the findings of our recent global logistics study,which found that logistics infrastructure is one of the most challenging issues, particularly for retailers who are expanding into BRIC countries such as India. We use the IT to provide large amounts of information about supply chain performance to our customers.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

Large BRIC country governments have recognized their power in the channel, and have raised the stakes for import and export requirements and regulation. BRIC countries all have significant import challenges. Global Supply Chain Logistics Retail Logistics Supply chain Relationships'

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Supply Chain View from the Field

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

It took UPS years to develop the China-global electronics market supply chain, and we were not very profitable during the early years. BRIC Supply Chain Global Distribution Global Supply Chain Inventory Management Retail Logistics Strategic Cost Management Supply Chain Management Supply Chain Strategy Supply Chain Systems'

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JANUARY 13, 2015

Global supply chain footprints will continue to expand. No question the global supply chain is still going strong. While it seemed like many companies would be moving more towards the BRIC countries, global events have proven this uptake to be relatively slow. The solution?

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Procurement gets commercial – as well as managing the physical supply chains, procurement will also become more intimate with the workings of the financial supply chain, ultimately stimulating good demand and increasing business value derived from spend (and supply markets) rather than simply reducing spend magnitude.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Traditional methods of supplier risk mitigation involve diversifying risk, multiple sourcing, or switching suppliers, which are not effective in situations where entire regions, industry segments, or supply chains are experiencing financial distress.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Jason’s insights provided a great foundation on which to continue our discussion of supply chain analytics! BRIC Supply Chain Forecasting Global Supply Chain Sales and Operations Planning Supply chain analytics Supply Chain Economics Supply Chain Management Supply Market Intelligence Supply Chain Economic'

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

They will soon change your supply chain. Designed in the 1960s when a Megabyte (MB) of disk storage cost the same as a Terabyte (TB) does today, relational databases form the basis of today’s supply chain systems and IT architectures. Not all supply chain data is transactional in nature.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

JANUARY 30, 2013

A recent discussion with supply chain executives in the apparel industry reveal that the problem is a tricky one to solve – and may be a function of other decisions being made by apparel manufacturers that have nothing to do with labor human rights in the supply chain. Do YOU know who is in YOUR supply chain?

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Supply Chain View from the Field

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

I presented at Supply Chain Outlook 2015, an event hosted by the Supply Chain Management Review in Chicago on Monday morning. It was also pointed out that the supply chain for manufacturing in America also has to be re-created – many of the suppliers in these industries are no longer there.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

APRIL 27, 2013

Early in the week I sat in on a lecture given by Clay Christenson (from Harvard Business School) to a number of senior supply chain executives at a gathering at the new 7 World Trade Center in New York.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 26, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. At Supply Chain Game Changer we believe in sharing experiences and expertise from people in every industry and from across the globe. As such we have introduced our “ Seasoned Leadership in Action ™” Interview series at Supply Chain Game Changer.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

AUGUST 11, 2017

That can make it difficult to meet your delivery times unless you take proactive steps now to minimize the risk in your supply chain. BRICS summit. The 9 th annual BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) summit is being held in Xiamen September 3-5, 2017 (the summit location rotates between its member countries).

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NC State SCRC

JUNE 6, 2016

In the new book “Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization, author Parag Khanna discusses the concept of the “new supply chain wars”. Central to his argument is the notion that global supply chains have become more complex, but have also merged into a comprehensive whole.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

At Supply Chain Game Changer we believe in sharing experiences and expertise from people in every industry and from across the globe. As such we have introduced our “Seasoned Leadership in Action ” Interview series at Supply Chain Game Changer. I would call myself an accidental supply chain executive!

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NC State SCRC

JUNE 15, 2016

Tim is a global supply chain executive originally from Australia, who has been studying the evolution of the Trans Pacific Partnership closely, and is writing a book on the subject. So if the TPP is approved, then this creates a different, but equally as critical challenge for supply chain leaders.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 15, 2016

When Coca Cola set about thinking about how to drive sustainability into their supply chain, they recognized from the outset that the entire end to end life cycle of a bottle of Coke needed to be considered. Growing beverage consumption in emerging markets of BRICS is expected to drive bio based PET market growth.

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Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

As part of the BRIC countries Russia is important in driving the growth aspirations of many of the world’s largest FMCG companies. In Cold War times big brand name FMCG consumption behind the iron curtain was probably driven by the efficiency of the black market and wider Russia was probably just a tempting white spot on the corporate globe.

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NC State SCRC

MAY 3, 2016

The approaches were all diverse, but all demonstrated incredibly novel ideas that will impact the end to end supply chain, from the customer’s customer to the supplier’s supplier.

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NC State SCRC

JUNE 17, 2016

Nike went about creating a three-tiered customized supply chain for their shoes. Although it is certainly not abandoning Asia, Nike is moving towards more near-shoring due to the need to mass-customize and meet many of the requirements for VELOCITY that we have discussed in this blog recently.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

To learn more about what is impacting the industry today, Supply Chain Nation spoke with Louis Yiakoumi, Group Publisher for Automotive Logistics magazine to get his insights for our Expert Insights series. That leads to a lack of investment in logistics and the supply chain. Here is an excerpt of that conversation.

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

The recent bankruptcy announcement of Hanjin, a major shipping line, on the Friday before the last Labor Day long weekend, was a shock to everyone working in the global logistics shipping industry.

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NC State SCRC

AUGUST 25, 2016

I had the opportunity to accompany a group of executives from Anheuser Busch Inbev on a tour of Nike’s global distribution facility in Leuven Belgium this week. Shipments arrive from Nike’s network of global manufacturers in Asia, and includes footwear, apparel and equipment.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 11, 2018

Supply chain trends make it yet more complex because they represent the intersections of so many different domains. What is a supply chain trend-spotter to do? A Different Perspective on Business Trends and Supply Chains. Software is Eating Supply Chains. We take a different approach here.

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NC State SCRC

JUNE 22, 2023

The diversity of the brands make them difficult to support, as they all have global supply chains, and the leverage is not the same. VF is a 120 year old company, currently at $14B in revenue with 75,000 employees, and its largest brand, Vans, is a $5B brand that sells over 100,000 pairs of shoes every year!

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NC State SCRC

JANUARY 25, 2017

Here’s a new insight by Tim Barnes in a guest blog this week, after Donald Trump announced the withdrawal from the Trans Pacific Partnership for the United States. I’ve been traveling the country this week meeting with both American business leaders and government and trade representatives from several Asian countries.

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

But to manage the complicated dance of global trade, organizations are recognizing that they need good systems, good visibility and transparency into the supply chain. The theme of the global chessboard and how to navigate it will be the theme of our upcoming Supply Chain Resource Cooperative meeting on December 5.

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NC State SCRC

JULY 8, 2016

Globalization and supply chains have been tied at the hip over the course of history. Supply chains naturally take advantage of efficiency and cost advantages and over the centuries, as transportation methods, technology and global knowledge improved, there has been a drive to take advantage of each and every step.

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