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Congrats to the Winners of the Supply Chains to Admire 2023

Supply Chain Shaman

How Do You Define Excellence? In retrospect, I find that technology is an enabler, but only if we are clear on what defines supply chain excellence. Many believe that an ex-supply chain exec knows the definition of supply chain excellence. The group’s response is, “Are these supply chain metrics?”

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Driving Sustainable Growth Through Supply Chain Resilience

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Driving Sustainable Growth Through Supply Chain Resilience. The question is, how do we navigate our way out of this never-ending chaos to continue driving sustainable growth? Brand loyalty is no longer the driver for consumer purchasing decisions. Driving Sustainable Supply Chain Change. HOW DID WE GET HERE?

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Lead Your Enterprise to More Sustainable Business Practices

Logility

Value-building sustainable business practices must start at the top — here’s what enterprise business leaders should be doing to make sustainability part of their culture and operations. To be effective, sustainable business practices must originate at the top, and they must extend through all tiers of the supply chain.

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St. Patrick’s Day is an Excellent Time for Supply Chains to Think Green

Enterra Insights

Green is also the unofficial color of sustainability efforts. The Logility team writes, “Environmental sustainability in the supply chain is top of mind for consumers, and a brand that fails to hold itself responsible risks reputational damage that will affect the bottom line.”[2] The Sustainability Business Case.

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Trends, Technology and Sustainability in Focus at LogiSYM MENA 2021

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

In the first conference segment in the afternoon, the theme shifted to Sustainability – a subject that was hardly discussed at LogiSYM just a few years ago. In terms of metrics, compared to traditional polyester yarn manufacturing, Greenspun requires 20% less water, uses 50% less energy, and produces 55% fewer carbon emissions.

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Time for a Supply Chain Metrics Cleaning

Logility

Ask yourself, “Are your supply chain metrics bogging you down?” ” To manage a supply chain containing complex dependencies between teams, departments and partner companies across international boundaries requires a rich set of metrics. Functionally isolated metrics lead to sub-optimized supply chain performance.

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If Only the Supply Chain was Reconfigured

Supply Chain Shaman

We speak of waste reduction and sustainability through a supply centric lens. The sad thing is that most companies will never know because they are blindly measuring the wrong metric and driving a supply-centric agenda. Functional metrics throw the supply chain out of balance creating waste and increasing turbulence.