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Social Media & the Supply Chain
Social media gets a bad rap in many traditional business circles. Sometimes, it's deserved, but there are some legitimate, and quite useful, ways it can be leveraged to support supply chains.
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Help for Your Procurement Strategy
Well, if you need help formulating and improving your procurement strategy, it's on the way! It seems the major consulting firms (McKinsey, BCG, etc.) are building out their practices to help clients' supply chains.
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Critical Skills for Purchasing
What are the crucial skills needed for purchasing management in the supply chain? Is it manufacturing experience and process knowledge, or other area of expertise?
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Supply Chain Planning's Next Steps
If there's anyone who puts more thought into supply chain planning than the Supply Chain Shaman herself, Lora Cecere, I'm not aware of it. She takes a look at what's on the horizon for the next phase of planning in a recent post to her site.
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Control Your Inventory Costs
Everyone can use a little help controlling inventory costs. Will Bacon, on the Material Handling & Logistics site, provides a few pointers that could support your efforts with your suppliers.
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Drive Quality With Value Stream Mapping
A backbone of Lean process improvement is Value Stream Mapping (VSM). There are right ways and wrong ways to approach process mapping, and documenting the current state is a step that will put you on the right path.
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eCommerce in 2024
Ecommerce has always been a moving target. Trying to keep up and to anticipate change are tough propositions. The folks at Supply Chain Brain are helping us out with a projection on some ecommerce trends they expect to affect supply chains and logistics in particular over the next decade.
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IoT's Supply Chain Effects
Udaya Shankar, in an article on the EBN site, reviews the potential impacts on the supply chain by the Internet of Things (IoT). Some common issues, such as visibility, have a chance to be addressed with the new technology and processes.
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Lessons of the Angry Birds
I've always wondered about my grandson's infatuation with the Angry Birds game. Maybe he's just interesting in improving his supply chain? That's the premise of a recent article by Jonathan Lofton on the 21st Century Supply Chain site.
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Let's Collaborate
In a Supply Chain Management Review article, we discover that collaboration doesn't exactly cure all supply chain ills, although it certainly can help. There are many silos involved and lots of opportunities for integration.
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