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Editor’s Choice: Why Supply Chain Design Is Not a “One-and-Done” Exercise

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply Chain Design: A process where nodes, modes, flows, and policies driving a supply chain are defined, reviewed, optimized, and aligned to business objectives. The post Editor’s Choice: Why Supply Chain Design Is Not a “One-and-Done” Exercise appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints. To read the full article, click HERE.

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Supply Chain Design Crosses the Chasm

Logistics Viewpoints

The supply chain nodes which were once deemed to be relatively static have become far more dynamic in the recent past. The rapid shifts to eCommerce during the pandemic caused retailers and brand owners alike to flex their network nodes (where goods are made and inventories are stocked) significantly.

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5 Recommendations towards a Resilient S&OP

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply Chain Design wherein nodes, modes, flows, and policies driving a supply chain are reviewed and realigned to business objectives is emerging as a discipline to build resilience into S&OP. Hence, it serves us well to focus on making the S&OP process more resilient in addressing disruptions.

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Supply Chain Predictions for 2022 and Beyond

Logistics Viewpoints

However, the rapid shifts that companies are going through given the aforementioned trends, progressive companies are laying a robust data foundation and enabling a digital twin of the physical supply chain so they can conduct Design exercises on demand with increasing frequency.

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Underpinning asymmetric advantage: USAF airlift when strategic mobility is at risk

Logistics in War

weaknesses such as time and distance for force deployment and vulnerable logistics nodes and command and control networks.’ [6] USAF C17 during a recent joint forcible entry exercise; photo by USAF. For example, the US Army’s Multi-Domain Battle White Paper states, ‘adversaries will also exploit perceived U.S.

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The Expert Talks- Sustainability

Infosys Supply Chain Management

No one is an exception in the sustainability exercise, with this I mean each and every participant within the supply chain including manufacturers, suppliers, logistics etc. Each and every node in the supply chain needs to be sustainable if an organization wants to claim that it is adopting sustainable practices and succeed in it.

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How Supply Chain Orchestration Can Help Prevent Drug Shortages

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply chain orchestration means the various nodes can plan together instead of sequentially. Too often forecasting is an exercise is done by a demand planner, who tosses it over the fence to someone else to fulfill. Had we forecasted that, we would have built a different supply chain.”