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5 Paths to Better Supply Chain Visibility

Now, That's Logistics

Suddenly, everyone from the manufacturing plant manager to the distribution center supervisor to the retail store operator wanted to know “where’s my stuff?”—a For many manufacturing and distribution organizations, for example, inventory management may be the pain point most worthy of attention.

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Building a better prepared Australian Defence Force after the Defence Strategic Review – supply-chains and logistics and the way in which both improve military resilience

Logistics in War

Force posture is underpinned by supply chains, distribution and the technical systems – military and civilian – that ensure that the right ‘stuff’ gets to the right location. A military with reliable access to what it needs can respond quicker to a broader range of events and sustain its operations for much longer.

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Supply Chain Management:'Asset' in Enterprise Asset Management

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Logistics and Distribution. Distribution. We spoke with Rohit Choubey , Lead Consultant - ECS EAM and Rejeesh Gopalan , Consultant - ECS EAM to get their views on significance of Asset definition in EAM and how it can contribute to the emergence. You maintain a stable diet - Reliability Centric Maintenance and the list goes on.

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Supply Chain Management:Face book, Twitter and Asset Management

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Logistics and Distribution. Distribution. Ralph gave it a name "Crowdsourced-Driven Reliability", where the people who are near the assets, can sense the problem in advance and report to maintenance department for a preventive action; thus prevent the asset failure. Communication Services. Consumer Packaged Goods. Healthcare.

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Battling a perfect storm

Automotive Logistics

Duncan said GM had also invested in providing options to the customer when it came to dealer pickups from its distribution centres and the ports. We saw longer lead times that definitely impacted our customers.”. It is an academic exercise to speculate …but there are some big dollars at stake here.”. Rail headaches.