Supply Chain View from the Field

JANUARY 26, 2013

Jenny Sebley, former supplier sustainability manager at Burt’s Bees, spoke in my sustainable supply chain class today. Sustainable supply chains was a key issue at Burt’s Bees, and continues to play an important role. The first focus was on reducing waste and leaning the supply chain.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 18, 2024

Biofuels, derived from renewable sources like plant materials, boast a lower carbon footprint while still being compatible with existing diesel engines (often in blends) (Khare & Sharma, 2003). 2007), The Transport Manager’s and Operator’s Handbook 2007, Kogan Page: London. Khare, M. & Button (eds.),

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

From a digitally-transformed shopping experience to global supply chain disruptions and a pandemic that refuses to quit, there’s one thing retailers can count on: People are always going to shop. Data source: eMarketer. Image source: Bring Me the News. Supply Chain Challenges Continue. Road trip, anyone?).

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Logility

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Depending on the source, it is widely reported that anywhere from 50 to 85% of new products fail to achieve success. From a supply chain standpoint the battle for new product profitability relies largely on two key capabilities, developing accurate new product forecasts and optimizing new product inventory.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 11, 2024

Single-source Of Up-to-date Processing Data MOM Software can help plant managers maintain a single unique source of critical engineering data. The manager now has end-to-end visibility of the supply chain which makes it easier to meet operations targets. To download this guide, click here.

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Freightos

AUGUST 26, 2015

If you’re like me, staying up to date on supply chain news is critical. So I went straight to the source and asked consultants, trade reporters, Wall Street Journal reporters and others, what their go-to logistics and supply chain sources were. Today’s Top Supply Chain and Logistics News From WSJ.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

”[2] To be fair, the USDA does offer a downloadable “ Urban Farm Business Plan Handbook ” and an “ Urban Agriculture ToolKit “ Why urban agriculture? 8] Robbin Laird, “ A National Security Perspective on Vertical Farming: Reducing Supply Chain Vulnerabilities ,” Defense.info , 21 October 2018.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 26, 2024

As the press release announcing this new offering noted, “The rate of change experienced by companies due to inflation, changeable consumer behavior, challenging supply chains, and other macro issues is faster than their ability to adapt with their existing tools and processes. Cognitive computing systems make context computable.

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NC State SCRC

JUNE 15, 2021

The SCRC’s Supply Management Maturity Index was highlighted in a recent Wall Street Journal article , that identified the companies best prepared to weather the storm ahead in terms of supply chain disruptions. These interviews are often the best source of information and are not published. Handfield, R.B.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Warehousing: Origins, History and Development in Practical Handbook of Warehousing. Originally written for Supply Chain Game Changer and published on August 6, 2022. appeared first on Supply Chain Game Changer™. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Provenance

AUGUST 4, 2019

Provenance has been working to help businesses make their supply chain and impact transparent with integrity, but we firmly believe businesses shouldn’t set and check their own homework. Our food supply chains are full of social injustice that must be stopped. Certifications can be arduous. There’s a lot to digest.

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Arena Solutions

AUGUST 9, 2022

With the increasing complexity of the medical device market, manufacturers are faced with an extensive list of product commercialization challenges ranging from mounting standards and regulatory changes, slow and expensive R&D, and supply chain disruption, to providing better cybersecurity features for new connected devices.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Did you know that supply chains and wristwatches have two things in common? For the organisation with the supply chain, it is to satisfy more customers, more profitably to the organisation. Second, what goes on underneath the watch face or behind the top level supply chain dashboard can be very complex.

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Logistics Bureau

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

If you’re serious about continuous improvement and developing a best-in-class supply chain to serve your organisation, keeping your managers and workforce educated is paramount. As any established supply chain professional will testify, this is a field in which the real learning begins after the formal education has ended.

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Synovos

JULY 24, 2023

This has been made possible through modal shifts from air to sea or air to road and optimizing its supply chain to source, store and ship more products locally. In addition, RS is supporting its suppliers in working towards and achieving their own ESG goals by launching a supplier ESG action plan and handbook.

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crisp

APRIL 21, 2023

Purely Elizabeth’s VP of Sourcing & Sustainability Christin Powers spoke with Crisp about how in 2015, the then start-up used the B Lab assessment as a tool to develop processes and best practices to help build the business – knowing that they wanted to uphold the most sustainable, and ethical policies possible.

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Supply Chain Trend

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

To get some answers for S&OP practitioners, Niels van Hove from Supply Chain Trend interviewed a group of S&OP leaders. Supply Chain Trend will publish a weekly Q&A with these S&OP leaders. To get some answers for S&OP practitioners, Supply Chain Trend interviewed a group of S&OP leaders.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Procurement is what sets entire supply chains and their organisations in motion. Others are detailed handbooks that explain not only the principles to be observed, but also give examples of how and how not to conduct procurement in order to remain ethical. The Chain of Ethical Responsibility. Some are succinct web pages.

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