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COVID-19 Lesson: Make Your Supply Chain More Resilient

Logistics Bureau

Until the Coronavirus began wreaking its havoc, global companies could run their supply chains on the assumption that disruptions would be rare and short-lived, and that products should be sourced, produced, and distributed at the cheapest locations to be found, wherever in the world that may be. 3) Shorten Your Supply Chain—Source Locally.

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Supply Chain Management:Importance of Proactive Master Data.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Sourcing & Procurement. Cloud & Big Data. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Case Studies. |. These 3 master data elements contributed to almost 50-60% of planning issues. Business Process Outsourcing. Customer Service. Finance & Accounting. Banking Suite.

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Human Resources and Talent Management- Mental Health and Wellbeing Perspectives

Women in Trucking

Physically, the long hours sitting behind the wheel, lack of exercise (or for many OTR drivers little physical movement at all) and easy access to unhealthy food and drinks all take their toll on driver health. The severity of those mental health conditions is obvious in data like this: 13.6% Loneliness is a big challenge for drivers.

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Modeling brewing capacity to drive cost savings at HEINEKEN

AIMMS

Our team determines which countries should get the most volume of this product, where it should be produced and which brewery each country should source it from. For instance, if I wanted to know what the HEINEKEN canning capacity was in Asia, I would have to sum up 20+ Excel files to sum up the data for all the breweries.

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Where Does Supply Chain Design End and Planning Begin? (Takeaways from LLamasoft’s SummerCon 2017 Conference)

Talking Logistics

The first one arrived a few years ago when a growing number of companies started treating supply chain design as a continuous business process instead of a standalone project or a once-a-year exercise. Source: LLamasoft. The slide below provides an overview of SupplyChainPlanning.com: Source: LLamasoft.

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Finding Your Ecommerce Brand Niche

Ship Monk

If you’re already knee deep in design iterations and fulfillment provider RFPs, we hope you’ve already gone through this exercise. But before you jump onto the bandwagon, you’ll want to conduct a very thorough niche market study. Sourcing unique materials or suppliers? What Problem is your Product or Brand Solving?

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The realities of logistics and strategic leadership: lessons from the ADF’s senior-most logisticians – Part 1

Logistics in War

Strategic failures emerge when ‘thinkers’ are separated from ‘doers’, ‘strategists’ from ‘planners’ and ‘soft data’ from ‘hard data’. The control of logistics resources, especially in capability development, is influenced significantly by the desire to attain and exercise power within the institution. Strategic failure.