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Yesterday had a interesting discussion on the supply chain initiatives, have listed the few on what felt was important for the moment-
• Re-Design Your Warehouse Network, Add Regional Warehouses and
• Save Transportation Costs
• Compete on Service, Fend Off Price Concessions
• Re-Bid Your Freight Spend, Deepen Your Routing Guides
• Invest in Non-Transportation Resources–Inventory, Labor, Technology,
• Time-That Offset Transportation Cost
• Fill Orders Flexibly
• Change Inventory [...]
People keep asking me which project to focus in the supply chain business function in the current economic tough times.
My belief is that this is the wrong attitude and no matter how backward and tightfisted senior management and finance group are, if you can identify for them in straight forward terms a specific and achievable [...]
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As we all our going thro this recession, one thing is becoming clear ” 2009 will be ROI year”
Few of the points crossing my mind from various research reports and talks of leaders are as follows:
% Companies will exploit well-performing existing tangible and especially intangible supply chain assets to ride out the financial crisis [...]
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IBM is the latest to present a vision for the future of supply chain, in a new report based on a survey of some 400 supply chain executives from across the globe. In the report, IBM says there will be three main strategies that companies will use to build the future state supply chain: better [...]
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The hi-tech, discrete manufacturing, retail industry is facing a problem of Dis-integrated systems across the supply chain.
The need of the hour is the collaboration between Demand and Supply System.
Demand
A. Point of Sale
B. Store Requirements
C. Retail DC Requirements
D. Product Requirements
E. Production Schedule
F. Raw Material Requirements
Supply
A. Shelf Management, Merchandising Systems
B. Operation Systems
C. Buyer Systems
D. Order Management Systems
E. Production Systems
F. Purchasing Systems
As collaboration is the solution, need to [...]
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Last week was having a discussion with my friend, and we touch upon one interesting topics, what is the impact of Recall (Mass Recall) in the Supply Chain cycle.
Most of us are well equipped with forward supply chain and service /spare part supply chain. Based on the cost, we need to have mitigation [...]
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P&G is undergoing the most aggressive expansion in its history, with plans to build 19 production plants over the next four
years, almost all in emerging foreign markets. The plan represents a 13 percent increase in P&G’s network of 145 facilities
in 80 countries and reveals the changing face of its future consumer. Eighteen of the facilities [...]
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CSCMP has handed out the 2008 Supply Chain Innovation Awards to Cisco. The company won the award by completely
transforming its reverse logistics program. According to company estimates, from 1995 to 2005, Cisco discarded more than
95 percent of its returned goods. As recently as 2005 Cisco dumped $500 million worth of returns while spending $8 million
more [...]
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Importers and exporters may face significant unexpected costs and increased disruptions in 2009 if they do not properly
address challenges to their supply chains, sourcing strategies and the flow of working capital. Some of these are hangovers
from 2008’s economic turbulence, while others are just starting to develop. But the outlook isn’t all bad. There also are
some [...]
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Aberdeen has just published the result of its recent study on Software as a Service (SaaS) for supply chain management.
The report highlights today’s quest in the market for cutting supply chain application cost as much as possible. One of the
areas the companies are looking for more than ever is the area of application maintenance and [...]
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