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What's Better for Performance: Lean or Tech?
What's the better approach to improving supply chain performance: process improvements via Lean, or technology implementations? It's an interesting question whose answer might depend on which part of the supply chain you support.
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3 Steps to Ensure Continuity
According to Sean Rollins on the EBN site, there are 3 'must-haves' for supply chain managers to ensure continuity in their operations. Visibility, intelligent response, and collaboration are all necessary to anticipate and fix problems before they get out of hand.
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Attacking the Supply Chain Talent Problem
We've written several times this year about the difficulty in attracting and retaining talent in supply chain roles. Now, Deloitte has looked at the problem in detail and proposes a few ideas on how to improve.
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Leveraging Big Data in IBM's Supply Chain
For a company with such a storied history, IBM continues to find ways to innovate, especially in its supply chain arena. Using its big data capabilities, the company is reducing supply chain risk and providing other valuable capabilities to users across the organization.
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Procurement Mojo Anyone?
Procurement is the 'Rodney Dangerfield of the organization'? Haven't heard that one, but it makes sense if you look at the traditional view of the function.
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Forecasting is Top Supply Chain Problem
In a recent study, supply chain executives named forecasting as its top challenge. It appears that companies are looking internally for ways to reduce costs.
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Thoughts on WMS Development
I don't know about you, but I enjoy reading first person accounts of the development of new systems. In a recent Supply Chain Digest article, editor Dan Gilmore discusses the WMS sector with a pioneer of that technology, John Hill.
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Steps to a Sustainable Supply Chain
Building a sustainable supply chain is a lofty goal. The journey from where you are now to that end point may appear to be too daunting to even begin,
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Understanding Same Day Delivery Requirements
As more companies jump on the same-day delivery bandwagon, someone needs to ask a few fundamental questions. On the Multichannel Merchant site, John Haber does just that.
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Thoughts on Organizational Alignment
Lora Cecere has been a Supply Chain Shaman for years and is a proponent of the supply chain Center of Excellence concept. In her mind, as organizations mature, they naturally gravitate toward that model.
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