This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Note: Today’s post is part of our “ Editor’s Choice ” series where we highlight recent posts published by our sponsors that provide supply chain insights and advice. Today’s article is from Ahmad Jiwani at Coupa and looks at supply chain design. How often do you revisit and update your supply chain designs? Once a year?
But as is often the case in the world of supply chain, the ship did not come in as planned. The term visibility has a few different definitions depending on whom you ask. However, in a world where most of the information about a supply chain exists outside of the enterprise, visibility is a fundamental part of managing risk.
As a supply chain director, manager, or boss of a multinational corporation, where the supply chain is an integral part of your business, supply chain cost reductions are always at the forefront of your team’s mind. Vendor Managed Inventory Model for Supply Chain Cost Reductions. What is Reverse Marketing?
It is a well-known fact that supply chain is increasingly becoming digital. But is simply adding a digital component to the complex supply chain network enough to make it efficient? According to IBM, integrating supply chain with customer insight is essential for the success of the omnichannel. Definitely not.
If not, you might be surprised at the many ways supply chain benchmarking can be used to understand performance, identify areas for improvement and actually turn those improvements into reality. You don’t have to wait any longer to learn why supply chain benchmarking is increasingly winning advocates in the commercial arena.
Our ‘’Go for growth’’ workshops were focused on reaching out to many more Supply Chain planners around the globe, planning how to efficiently resolve their challenges, and increase customer satisfaction. We finished this unforgettable time on Zlatibor mountain with group games and exercise, strengthening the team spirit.
Being definitive about threats or objectives certainly helps in answering the question ‘is the military prepared?’ 4] Routine exercises and training can achieve high standards of preparedness, at least for a time. But the gruelling staff-work entailed in preparedness planning might just be enough to win in war. 3] Galvin, T.,
With the ascendancy of e-commerce channels needling the conversation towards customer retention and more significant satisfaction metrics with days passing by – the supply chain industry has its task cut out to match the goals set out by the ever-increasing success metrics. More so if the opted shipment network is multimodal.
I’ve set up a small office in my bedroom where I know I have a good internet connection and constant power supply. Kamal’s two rooftop activities: reading and exercise. It’s definitely a relief that we’re all together in one place right now. I’m doing some light exercise every morning and trying to get the family to join me.
The review, and statement which followed, portends sweeping changes to the Defence Integrated Investment Plan and to the force structure and the roles of the ADF’s Services consequently. Supply chain resilience is, of course, a part of this narrative – as we are reminder every time we hear about guided-weapons or military fuels.
Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape.
If not, you might be surprised at the many ways supply chain benchmarking can be used to understand performance, identify areas for improvement and actually turn those improvements into reality. Then, we’ll look at the benefits of benchmarking your supply chain. What is Supply Chain Benchmarking?
Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. These forms key contributors to an effective transformation exercise. August 2013.
Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. Supply Chain Management. Who said supply chains are boring? Offerings. |.
This portion of training must consist of “demonstrations performed by the trainer and practical exercises performed by the trainee” [OSHA standard 1910.178(l)(2)(ii) ]. Then, when you start, you’ll watch videos, do some reading, and complete interactive exercises to help you learn and retain the information. Part II: Landing a Job.
The process owners representing the respective utility business function were all seated together, in fact it was surprising to note that most of them even had consensus on many common process which were suggested to be followed as part of the process optimization exercise. In our projects we end up with such scenario, don''t we?
We’ll look at the specific costs involved in defining economies of scale and set out three items which are important in the definition. Because an understanding of the opposing forces of economies and diseconomies of scale is necessary for shippers and carriers to know how to strike the right balance in their transportation planning.
By David Beaumont Discussions about self-reliance, like many other conversations among defence planners, rarely begin with a conversation on supply and support. The ability of a military to conduct operations independent of anothers aid is intrinsically linked to the capacity to move, supply and support that force.
To keep things stimulating and different, however, we’ll focus only on scenarios where the chosen reason may not be the right one. It’s also true that if your company does not engage in logistics as a core activity and you rely on it only to secure your supply chain, investment in logistics expertise might not be a primary fiscal goal.
Should Your Supply Chain Join the Vertical Integration Revival? Ever since the early 1970s supply chain organisations have taken on increasingly distributed structures, a shift from a long-standing tradition of vertical integration. Concerns over supply risks and disruptions. Factors Driving the Shift to Vertical.
Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape.
The development also incorporates MUGA sports pitches, allotments, edible planting, wildflower grasslands, extensive networks of footpaths to encourage cardiovascular exercise and external break out areas for staff wellbeing. Renewable energy will be generated on-site, with solar panels.
Executive Insights is a series by Shipping and Freight Resource that provides useful insights and thoughtful analysis on what is happening in the maritime, shipping, freight, logistics, supply chain and trade industries. SFR : Ok, it seems like DCSA has definitely been doing a lot of things. But just data alone is not going to assist.
And that definitely applies to the freight market. It will be all-hands-on-deck as the greater economy, industrial, manufacturing, and housing businesses all fire back up and that pent-up demand and idle cap-ex are exercised. (2) This is a year where better short-term planning will produce a stronger result.
He said the ports and their private sector partners planned to invest over $155 billion over the next five years in land and waterside (and digital) infrastructure, but that there needed to be more federal support. The toolkit contains modules to help ports properly plan for the development of infrastructure.
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 84,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content