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Helping Defense Agency Manage Infrequent, Highly Variable Demand
The Defense Logistics Agency tasked partner LMI with helping to develop a more efficient system for managing items with infrequent demands through an innovative system that accounts for need and risk, without sacrificing mission-readiness.
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Shoe Retailer Says It Can Fulfill Online Orders From Its Brick-and-Mortar Stores
The customer expects shoe retailer DSW to be able to gather the shoes she wants, regardless of how she's shopping and regardless of where the shoe is located in the retailer's system. So it's good news that DSW reports it has made significant progress on its omnichannel initiative.
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Expenditures, Supply Chain Risk Aren't Linked, Study Finds
A new MIT study on supply chain risk shows no correlation between the total amount a manufacturer spends with a supplier and the profit loss it would incur if that supply were suddenly interrupted. This counterintuitive finding defies a basic business tenet that equates the greatest supply chain risk with suppliers of highest annual expenditure.
Success in Emerging Markets Takes Tactical and Strategic Approach
Over the last few years, the conventional wisdom has coalesced around a view that success in emerging markets is primarily a function of outstanding execution - speed, opportunism, tenacity, and guile - instead of a well-thought-out strategy supported by a set of winning and difficult-to-replicate organizational capabilities. In other words, street smarts are supposed to beat MBA smarts every time.
Papa John's and Manhattan Associates Discuss Benefits of Transportation Modeling
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(Future) Nights of the S.F. Roundtable, Part Two
More predictions for the future of supply-chain management, courtesy of a panel of industry insiders at the fifth annual seer-fest sponsored by the San Francisco Roundtable of the Council of Supply-Chain Management Professionals:
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IBM Deploys Advanced Analytics to Unify Its Integrated Supply Chain
"Multinational" doesn't necessarily mean global. IBM saw the need to apply rigorous analytics to virtually every function that makes up its supply chain - and in the process, harmonize business processes across the organization.
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Prepping Your Company for That All-Important ERP Implementation
A conversation with Jonathan Gross, vice president and legal counsel for Pemeco Consulting.
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Prediction: A Fourth of Today's Cloud-Services Providers Will Disappear in Next Two Years
Cloud adopters face serious risk in the next two years because of the strong possibility that their provider will be acquired or forced out of business, according to Gartner.
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Robust Growth Seen in Business Intelligence Software, But Companies Must Deploy Solutions Properly
Until recently, projects were largely initiated by and implemented for IT departments, rather than business, and the focus was primarily on eliminating silos and moving from departmental to enterprise programs. That focus has shifted and the shift has led to a $14bn global market for business intelligence software in 2013"”one expected to eclipse $17bn by 2016, according to Gartner Group estimates.
UK Online Sales Slow Down For Christmas While Eurozone Sees Significant Expansion
Findings of a recent survey show a healthy growth in online holiday shopping in the main Eurozone markets, but a slowdown in overall UK online sales in the run-up to Christmas 2013.
Gridlock! Can Urban Logistics Escape It?
All hail the omni-channel. But how can logistics providers possibly keep pace with an explosion in the number of delivery points within a city that must be served?
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