October, 2014

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Recruiters Reveal How to Land Dream Supply Chain Jobs

Supply Chain Opz

'According to O*NET OnLine, a supply chain manager earns $103,530 per year in average. Are you already on top of your game or there are something holding you back from reaching your fullest potential? This article will show you the best career advice from top supply chain recruiters. Background A couple of weeks ago we asked recruitment experts a simple question: We believe you may get many pieces of career advice from family and friends but you don''t even know that they''re now irrelevant.

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Use these management strategies to build a great supply chain…

The Network Effect

'Today I want to talk about some of the processes and management strategies that can be used to help a supply chain on the journey from ‘good’ to ‘great’ To read more about this subject and related themes, I suggest you read the new whitepaper, Supply Chain’s New World Order” , Visibility and Measurement. Visibility to the potential value locked in the current environment is a key driver in a supply network transformation and is being provided by advanced cloud based ne

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Why a network model makes sense for today’s automotive suppliers

The Network Effect

'Today I want to talk about the challenges faced by today’s automotive suppliers, and why a network model for their supply chain can help. Supply chain organizations within the automotive supplier industry contribute to manufacturing excellence in many ways, including quality, cost, and delivery to their OEM and subsystem customer base. Focused on outcomes, a competitive supply chain capability not only assures the on-time delivery of component material, but also the execution of inbound s

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Pharma companies will increasingly take cues from retail and consumer goods….why?

The Network Effect

'If you want to know ahead of time the changes awaiting the pharmaceuticals supply chain it is useful to extrapolate experiences from the consumer and retail sectors, which were dealing with the same trends and pressures long before pharmaceuticals (for example, the proliferation of distribution channels). Thus, using retail and consumer goods as a guide, we can expect that companies will tailor the mode of transportation, warehousing and depth of distribution in each country for different pha

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Load Optimization: A Sustainable Way To Reduce Transportation Costs

Discover strategies to optimize load building and achieve significant transportation cost savings. Plus, learn how load optimization can help reduce CO 2 emissions and align with climate regulations and consumer expectations. Finally, discover best practices for sustainable load optimization.

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Your shelf-connected checklist: How Demand-Driven are you?

The Network Effect

'The terms “shelf-connected” and “demand-driven” have been in use for years within the supply chain community. The prevailing strategy that traditional ERP/MRP vendors have focused on to achieve being shelf-connected is to implement Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR). Yet today’s advanced capabilities around Demand Driven Value Networks (DDVN) have dramatically changed the game.

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Holiday 2014: How to Avoid Last Year’s Disaster

The Network Effect

'It’s no secret that Holiday 2013 was a disaster for final delivery. The debacle was the result of the perfectly brewed storm, combining forces from inadequate delivery capacity, lack of discipline at several points in the supply chain, over-promised delivery times by retailers, and poor weather conditions across the U.S. Are we fully prepared to tackle Holiday 2014 in a better way?

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For 3PLs, New Market Trends = New Opportunities

The Network Effect

'Big opportunities lie ahead for today’s third-party logistics providers (3PLs). These new opportunities (and challenges, too) are a result of evolving market trends such as omnichannel and personalization. In turn, these market trends drive today’s supply chain trends (think: cloud computing or speed of delivery). All of these trends are affecting how 3PLs and shippers work and function.

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Check the box if you’re demand-driven….

The Network Effect

'Note, this is part three of an ongoing series. In part one and part two I explained how the terms “shelf-connected” and “demand-driven” have been in use for years within the supply chain community, but only recently has demand-driven value network technology emerged and matured enough to truly be a game-changer. Here is part three of the checklist with explanations.

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A B2B Question from the Floor (that Almost Knocked Me to the Floor)

The Network Effect

'I was speaking at a large conference about the major impacts of globalization, technology, and supply chain on commerce. At the beginning of my presentation I defined commerce to include retail, consumer products, wholesale, and distribution. At the end of my presentation, someone asked: “I really understand what you are saying for B2C, but is there anything happening in B2B?

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What 3PLs Need to Know about Alibaba

The Network Effect

'You’ve been hearing a lot about Alibaba lately. The Chinese e-commerce giant has burst on to the global scene and it is poised to make a huge impact on today’s marketplace. What does this all mean for third-party logistics providers (3PLs)? What opportunities and challenges will retailers and consumer product manufacturers face with the changing omnichannel scene?

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Autonomous AI Agents Are the Future of Procurement and Supply Chain Operations

As early as next year, procurement and supply chain operations will begin to adopt AI agents, often called “agentic AI,” to work alongside employees to make and execute decisions with precision across procurement and even the most complex global supply chains. Unlike LLM-based generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, these AI agents do not require prompts from humans.