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Congrats to the Winners of the Supply Chains to Admire 2023

Supply Chain Shaman

How Do You Define Excellence? As an old gal, with over forty-years of supply chain experience, writing this report for ten years taught me many lessons. In retrospect, I find that technology is an enabler, but only if we are clear on what defines supply chain excellence. Humility exudes from my fingers as I type this post.

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Who Should Be In The Winner’s Circle?

Supply Chain Shaman

When Gartner purchased AMR Research in December 2009, the methodology became the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25. Total cost analysis is more difficult than it sounds and most technology implementations automated functional measurement systems (manufacturing or procurement), but leave the organization blind on the management of total costs.

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5 Best Logistics Books to Keep Within Reach

Supply Chain Opz

Then, we use these criteria to rank the books, - Practicality: we look closely at how each book can provide basic concepts and strategies of the "Integrated Logistics Functions", namely, customer service, purchasing, production planning, warehousing, and transportation in a clear and concise manner. He has an MBA from UCLA.

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Visibility in Transportation Management Leads to Supply Chain Excellence

Talking Logistics

Here are some tips on how to enable end-to-end visibility across your enterprise: Sense and respond are critical processes for supply chain visibility and can only be achieved through a collaborative network that is coupled with robust business process orchestration and advanced analytics.

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Design for the Supply Chain Pt 4: Aesthetic

Kinaxis

So for me this means the aesthetic in our supply chains come from the focus we put on achieving a level of excellence throughout, using “Systems Thinking” while maintaining a human-centered design. Global Supply Chains – A Report by the Supply Chain Management Faculty at the University of Tennessee.

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Major organisational and cultural changes lie ahead for SCM

Supply Chain Movement

Professor Theodore Stank from the Global Supply Chain Institute at the University of Tennessee provided an update on the status of supply chain management within companies, saying that supply chain professionals have not yet reached the end of their journey. S&OP and omnichannel supply chains are demanding new analytical skills.

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Supply Chain Goals for 2022: What Should You Prioritize?

Logility

A 2021 McKinsey report suggests that COVID has put supply chain risk on everyone’s radar. That’s all well and good, but the report goes on to say that “significant blind spots remain.” One key finding: 85% of respondents indicated that they have shifted their purchase behavior toward sustainable products over the past five years.