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Executive guide to ERP Part 6: The operation stage

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Success or failure is determined during this stage, and there are strategies that executives should follow to ensure that the ERP-enabled business benefits and strategic objectives are sustained and optimized. Coined in 2001, application erosion describes how over time the value of the ERP system reduces. Application erosion.

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Fashion Transparency: China to Germany

Logistics Business Magazine

For more than 40 years, he has been regarded as a pioneer of German-Chinese economic relations and sustainable production in China: As early as 2001, the Zhejiang Province awarded him the “Golden Magnolia Prize” for the “most socially responsible factory.”

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The State of Your Supply Chain Affects the Level of Your Inventory 

Blue Grace Logistics

For example, the shortage of raw material at the factory will affect production. When organizations use this strategy to design their supply chain they inevitably improve their inventory management. When organizations use this strategy to design their supply chain they inevitably improve their inventory management.

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Initiating a new national support approach – mobilising national logistics in the support of military operations

Logistics in War

Supply chains are ‘strangling strategy’, with the movement of commodities so significant an issue that logistics is securitising. [1] Of all the ‘pillars’ of the national support strategy, the most consequential was the issue of mobilisation. 1] Beaumont, D., 2] Beaumont, D., 3] Marles, R.,

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31 Motivations for Reshoring Manufacturing & Updated Reshoring Stats

GlobalTranz

for example, compared to shipping state-to-state. For example, Chinese wages have increased 320% since 2000. Overall, from 2001 to 2008 average Asian wages increased 7.1-7.8%, Foxconn, for example, announced plans to reshore in Pennsylvania, investing $40 million for a mostly automated plant. energy costs have dropped.

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National support now – how Defence might prepare the national support base for a future war – Part Two

Logistics in War

The establishment of the Defence Materiel Organisation in 2001 saw the Division disbanded, and its functions reallocated across Defence. A rigorous, well-crafted and sensitive communication strategy will be required, as will cultural reform, because national support is a concept that can be influenced by Defence but not wholly owned.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

GlobalTranz

Early examples of intermodal containers include railroads from 1830s (various sized containers), and Pennsylvania Railroad regular container service (1929). Example of the massive decrease in dock workers as a result of containerisation. Example of the increasing coordination between seaports as a result of containerization.