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KC is Connecting their Supply Chain to the Shelf
For the past six years, Kimberly-Clark Corp. has been on a mission to connect its supply chain to the store shelf. The manufacturer of personal-care products wanted to create a demand-driven supply...
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Managing Risk through Procurement
CPO’s continually face challenges related to understanding the state of the global and regional economies, and managing the procurement organization and suppliers within that environment. With 50...
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How Korean Tensions Could Affect Auto Manfacturing
Following a nuclear test and subsequent global sanctions, escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula have North Korea issuing near-daily threats against its southern neighbor and the U.S. — and the...
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Disaster Logistics – CSCMP East TN Roundtable
When you need them the most, they are there! The Red Cross and National Guard guest will be discussing the dynamics around how they manage the response to a disaster event specifically in regards to...
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United Airlines Working on Sustainability in Supply Chain
United Airlines is launching a Sustainable Supply Chain (SSC) initiative in an effort to better understand the environmental performance of its suppliers and deepen relationships with its key supply...
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Conflict Free Supply Chain?
Laptops, smart phones, tablets—these are among our favorite electronic gadgets. We use them to do laudable things—stay connected in emergencies, democratize access to education, mobilize the workforce....
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Letting Coca-Cola Deliver the Medicine with their Supply Chain.
Women in rural areas of the developing world often have to walk all day to get to a health clinic to retrieve the oral rehydration packets needed to treat their children’s diarrhea, a leading killer...
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Servant Leaderships and High Performing Companies
I’ve spent years researching the DNA of high-performing companies, and much to my surprise the leaders at most of those companies did not fit commonly espoused theories of leadership. Many people...
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How Your Supplier Can Help You.
A recent Deloitte study offers a concise overview of the challenges companies face within their supply chains and how they, in turn, can partner with their suppliers to solve current problems and...
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Improving Operations by using Theory of Contraints
In general, it has been tough to adapt traditionally more manufacturing-oriented concepts such as Lean and especially Theory of Constraints (TOC) to distribution operations. We’ve published a few...
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