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Sage Advice? Only for Turkeys.

Supply Chain Shaman

Consider the case of food manufacturing. The only metric that we have improved through ten years of IT investments is the revenue/employee number. Here I want to question some of it, because as a cook, I believe that sage is a best fit for turkeys, and I don’t believe I am surrounded by turkeys.

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Throwback Thursday

Supply Chain Shaman

The operating margin for the medical device industry is 4X that of the automotive manufacturer and 2x the margin of the hospital. Next week I will be speaking on Retail Scorecard adoption as part of the rVCF conference, and then I fly to Turkey to speak on the Race for Supply Chain 2020. And, I believe that it needs to happen FAST!

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Supply Chain Leadership Driving Industry 4.0 & Resilience During Crisis – LogiSYM July 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Lockdown of cities and manufacturing plants have significantly impacted many industries’ supply chains. Being customer-centric enables companies to improve sustainability and uplift manufacturing through higher quality products and strengthen logistics, which results in higher levels of on-time deliveries.

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Happy New Year! What’s In Store for Supply Chains?

Enterra Insights

“To address these issues manufacturers are looking to continue to digitize their supply chains.” ” The survey found, “76% of manufacturers are adopting digital tools to gain enhanced transparency into their supply chain.” Only for turkeys.” those situated offshore).” Happy New Year!

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What is Demand Forecasting? Importance and Benefits of Forecasting Customer Demand

ShipBob

They look at sales leading into that week last year for seasonal products like turkeys, cranberries, and mashed potatoes. The geography of where your customers reside and where you manufacture and ship orders from can greatly impact inventory forecasting and the speed at which you can fulfill customer orders. Slime by Nichole Jacklyne.

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Leonardo da Vinci and Supply Chain Management

Enterra Insights

We have established business metrics and we love to quantify our business strategies. Nikos Papageorgiou, Vice President of Solutions at Slync, explains, “Transactions in sourcing, manufacturing, logistics and distribution generate hundreds of millions of data points. Only for turkeys.” eft , 1 February 2013. [2]

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Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods

Gravity Supply Chain

The quantity of goods carried by containers soared from 102 million metric tons in 1980 to about 1.83 billion metric tons as of 2017. manufacturers have increasingly relied on parts produced in low-cost countries, especially China, a practice known as offshoring.