Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 20, 2021

I have been in the full-time workforce for over 30 yrs, mainly employed in the Marketing/advertising/brand management space for fortune 500 companies. In 2015, I bought a Canadian distribution company focused on the toy/gift retail space. What are some of your greatest achievements in Business?

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. How To Differentiate With A Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) Program! Looking back on the training process, our research, strategy, implementation and evaluation methods closely mirrored supplier relationship management and procurement management. Subscribe Here!

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

This is our normal, yellow banana ( fao.org 2015 ). This is when your banana truly becomes visible in the global supply chain. contributes to 62%-67% of the total carbon footprint created during the life cycle of the banana value chain ( fao.org 2015 ). Check out Supply Chain 4.0 Transportation?—?shipping,

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Looking back on the training process, our research, strategy, implementation and evaluation methods closely mirrored supplier relationship management and procurement management. In fact, it made me think of a specific chapter I read from Magnus Carlsson’s Strategic Sourcing and Category Management: Lessons Learned at IKEA.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

In 2015, Amazon shipped over 51 million items on that day alone. Their smart warehouse in Guangdong houses the largest army of “automated guided vehicles” in China. These amazing robots are able to haul packages weighing up to 500 kilograms! million sq. fulfillment center is at its peak during Cyber Monday. That’s 629 items per second!

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 18, 2019

With the start of 2015, UPS and FedEx instituted a dimensional (DIM) weight pricing structure. Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) figures show a large jump in the volume of freight shipped between 2012 and 2015. Article originally published by, and permission to publish here provided by, Jake Rheude at [link].

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Supply Chain Game Changer

AUGUST 21, 2019

In fact, click and collect sales are showing impressive year-on-year increases; growing 155% as a percentage of total online sales for multichannel retailers between the years 2011 and 2015. In the UK, the click and collect model is particularly popular with experts predicting that usage will double by 2025.

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