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Effectively managing a bountiful harvest requires a planning process that combines long-term visibility of future demands and manufacturing constraints with near-term production scheduling and execution. Seasonal harvests impose a significant constraint on manufacturing,... |
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This year, Ardent Partners explores a key characteristic that separates best-in-class procurement teams from all others – agility.While the 318 procurement and finance pros who were surveyed continue to focus on savings, delivering value, and process... |
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Planning your complex value chain has always been challenging, and the degree of difficulty keeps increasing. Trends in business and economic conditions as well as emerging technology have added to the complexity. The pressure increases to plan for more complex value chains, more... |
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Managing your supply chain is about more than keeping costs down and efficiency up. It’s about enabling your supply chain to become a driver of growth. Follow the five simple steps of supply chain planning and optimization in order to:- Increase profits-... |
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Demand planning and forecasting serve as the centralized repository of intelligence for marshaling resources to cost-effectively respond to future demand. In order to ensure optimal demand forecasting, those in distribution-intensive industries must use the forecasting methods... |
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While market volatility and the rise of the omni-channel marketplace have created significant challenges for manufacturers and retailers, these trends are also creating huge opportunities for logistics partners who are able to bring the right technology to bear to... |
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An often underrated, misunderstood and underutilised role of the procurement professional is the site visit. Seen as many as a bit of a jolly or a waste of time, the site visit has become a low-priority activity to be completed only in dire circumstances or when there is nothing... |
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Taking a smart approach to logistics – from streamlining transport networks and global trade management, to optimizing everyday warehouse operations – can simultaneously reduce costs and maximize competitive advantage. Download your exclusive Oracle e-book, Oracle... |
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The purpose of this paper is to alert Consumer Package Goods (CPG) management to the growing importance of the Category Management function and to the need to allocate appropriate resources, both human and technological, to your Category Management function to... |
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The apparel industry uniquely combines characteristics of make-to-stock manufacturing with consumer-driven fashion volatility.Creating accurate demand plans down to the SKU and sub-SKU level can mean the difference between success and failure of a new product... |
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