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Boeing: The Turning Point(s)

The Lean Thinker

With the justification aside, they next had us go through exercises calculating net present value and ROI for a hypothetical capital investment in tooling – as though a shop floor supervisor would do this at any point in the course of their job. The class wasn’t some secret management thing.

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Being Adaptive Drives Resiliency and Margins in Collaborative Supply Chain Networks (CSCN)

Logistics Viewpoints

In this scenario, by adopting an adaptive supply chain, the retailer uses real-time data analytics to identify emerging trends and collaborate closely with suppliers to quickly adjust production and inventory levels to meet customer demand. Nari Viswanathan is a six times SDCExec Supply Chain Pro to Know award winner.

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Sales Saboteur with Ann Holm

The Logistics of Logistics

The strategies there to help us meet the three basic needs of independence, acceptance, and security by asserting, earning, or avoiding. [06:19] Next is the group that are trying to gain acceptance: * The hyper-achiever: one who has no idea of what is good or excellent because they need to be perfect. *

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Cultivate a Stickier Customer Base Using WMS Add-On Technology

Logistics Viewpoints

Instead of manually entering data at set intervals throughout the month – an after-the-fact exercise prone to errors and omissions – an automated solution captures billable activities correctly in real-time, improving overhead utilization, cost control, and revenue leakage at once. To learn more, visit Open Sky Group today.

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Supply Chain Optimization: Leveraging Integrated Scenario Planning as a Margin Multiplier

Logistics Viewpoints

This broad optimization across many objectives allows leadership to meet corporate goals and functional objectives, enhancing visibility into the potential outcomes and benefits of different planning scenarios. Automation ensures standardized planning activities, mitigating the risk of knowledge loss due to employee turnover.

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Better Inventory Management Requires International Suppliers To Step Up to Digital Transformation and Collaboration

Logistics Viewpoints

For months, retailers have been stockpiling massive amounts of goods to meet surging consumer demand, and compensate for ongoing supply and logistics issues. Prior to founding FourKites, Matt spent 7 years in the enterprise software space working for market leaders such as Oracle Corp and i2 Technologies/JDA Software Group.

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Bottom Line: What is the ROI of Supply Chain Network Design Software?

AIMMS

Like others in our peer group, we often find ourselves sharing a range based on results typically seen in the market. While businesses differ in complexity and size, for this exercise we extrapolated based on these $7.5Bn baselines. When the models are built, running scenarios with these large businesses can be a lot of fun.