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What are the top challenges for today’s logistics providers?

The Network Effect

Today’s logistics customers demand flexibility and visibility. Even more challenging, customers are also increasingly demanding full transparency to their orders and inventory through the entire life-cycle of raw-material to finish-goods to sale to sometimes reverse-logistics. Logistics logistics'

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Three new year’s resolutions for your supply chain

The Network Effect

Note: In honor of a similar post from last year, I thought I’d do an update for 2014. Having spent a lot of my time in 2014 in the board rooms and corner offices of companies around the world, I can say without a doubt that this is no longer the case. How much are you spending to address that response?

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Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Wolfgang Lehmacher!

Supply Chain Game Changer

After my time at TNT, I was driving for more than a decade the international expansion of French La Poste. In 2010, I joined global strategy firm CVA to head the global logistics practice. In 2014, I accepted to support the World Economic Forum in developing the supply chain and transport industries. Wolfgang Lehmacher.

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Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Will Chu, CEO at Vector!

Supply Chain Game Changer

After growing it from an idea on a napkin to more than 300 employees, we decided it was time to take on a new challenge. When Vector was founded in 2014, we saw an opportunity to transform the transportation industry by removing physical paperwork from day-to-day driver operations. How can people contact you at Vector?

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Supply Base Optimization: 6 Steps to Ensure Success

Procurify

This way, organizations can spend more time with fewer suppliers. . Supply base optimization requires a strategic plan so you can reduce the number of suppliers you currently have, and spend more time with the ones who are adding value to your organization. Current inventory. 6 steps for successful supply base optimization.

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The Intelligent IBP Manifesto – key principles for a new planning paradigm

Supply Chain Trend

Intelligent IBP effectively combines human and machine strengths with good decision practices to consistently make timely, high-quality, horizon agnostic business decisions. I think it is time to update the IBP belief sytem to be more reflective of current times, technology & ways of working, and create a modern IBP vision.