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Get the Biggest Bang for Your Freight Budget Dollar!

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Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Do You Have Hidden Freight Costs? Freight Budget article and permission to publish here provided by Adam Robinson at Freightwaves. Freight costs and budget adherence are among the most important and often overlooked aspects of transportation management. Subscribe Here!

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Supply Chain Leader Becky Simon on Having a Heart of Service

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As the year draws to a close, we can look back on all the progress women in supply chain made this year and the powerful gains ahead. 2023 marks the year women in supply chain returned to the post-pandemic workforce in full force. Let’s Talk Supply Chain is committed to closing the remaining gender gap.

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History and Evolution of Supply Chain and Logistics

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In the current era, it is clear that new modes of production are concomitant with new modes of distribution, which advances the field of logistics, the science of physical distribution or even supply chain management. Reminder of Key Definitions – Logistics & Supply Chain Management. and J-P Rodrigue (2004)).

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Futureheads: Harsh Bhatia

Procurement Heads

You’ve previously worked on the supply chain side of retail, how much of a shift was it to procuring IT for a leading infrastructure company? Having said that supply chain was more so about the movement of goods ensuring that retail stores had sufficient stock to meet customer demand. Negotiation is a hobby for me.

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Lean Six Sigma for SMEs: A Path to Continuous Improvement

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. – Administrative improvements (reduction in order processing errors, streamlining of customer service functions so that customers are no longer placed on hold, etc.) – Strategic improvements (reduced costs, etc.). – Reduced flexibility and less ability to react to new conditions and circumstances.

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Delivering Value Through Cross-Function Collaboration

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At a recent roundtable with The Manufacturer magazine, the benefits of cross functional collaboration for procurement was raised as a discussion point for the session. . One of the most interesting suggestions is that a procurement team should take a service mindset when working with the budget holders within the organisation.

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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #4

Supply Chain Trend

To get some answers for S&OP practitioners, Supply Chain Trend interviewed a group of S&OP leaders. These leaders all have 20+ years S&OP experience and published books, whitepapers and articles in renowned magazines. Supply Chain Trend will publish a weekly Q&A with these S&OP leaders.