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Reflections, Thank-you(s) and Rethinking the Future

Supply Chain Shaman

Last week I spoke at the CLX Logistics Conference in Philadelphia on the future of Supply Chain Management. My speech also focused on how current technologies are rapidly becoming obsolete due to market demands to do more with less and make better decisions. Open Source Technologies (Examples include Hadoop, Spark, Kafka).

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SCRC Supply Chain Index contributes again to the 2021 Wall Street Journal Top 250 Best Managed Companies

NC State SCRC

This year, as in the past five years, our supply chain index contributed to the overall ranking of firms in the top 250 best managed companies , as ranked by the Drucker Institute. Only a few, including P&G, Intel, and Johnson and Johnson, actually own manufacturing sites that produce products. Johnson and Johnson.

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Doing Business in Turkey

QAD

Manufacturing in Turkey. Primary manufacturing industries include textiles, food, automobiles, electronics, mining, steel, petroleum, construction, lumber and paper. Supply Chain Infrastructure for Manufacturing. Its primary export partners were Germany, the UK, the UAE, Iraq, the US, Italy, France and Spain.

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Different Strokes for Different Folks (to Yield Better Results?)?

Supply Chain Shaman

This week I spent time in Silicon Valley talking to technology innovators. Disruption in supply chain planning is happening. We are on a path to reinvent decision-support technologies like supply chain planning. They were very proud of their work in planning with a number of pharmaceutical manufacturers.

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How Consumer Behavior is Changing

Enterra Insights

Now, all that manufacturing, logistics, pricing, customer engagement and general commerce data is obsolete.” To keep up with these changes, brands and retailers can leverage cognitive technologies. ”[4] He goes on to explain, “New ideas, behaviors and technology ordinarily take years (if not decades) to reach critical mass.

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Who said supply chains are boring?: How would you ship 500 trees.

Supply Chains Rock

Who said supply chains are boring? Whenever I tell a friend, colleague or family member about my job as soon as the words "supply chain" are muttered I immediately see glassy eyes followed by a yawn or two. How would you ship 500 trees to Iraq? China Supply Chain Council. MIT Supply Chain 2020.

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Behind the Numbers of the SCRC Supply Management Index

NC State SCRC

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. Manufacturers or the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics. Handfield, R.B.