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In the 1980s and 1990s, increasingglobalization, outsourcing and availability of information spurred the need to integrate business processes across the entire global supply chain, which resulted in the idea of supply chain management. This marked a shift from the traditional supply chain, which just...
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When the price of a product is low, the supply is low. When the price of a product is high, the supply is high. This makes sense because companies are seeking profits in the market place. They are more likely to produce products with a higher price and likelihood of producing profits t...
A supply chain leader may be cross-functional in all three and may need to work cross-industry too to achieve the day-to-day business objectives. Benefits of effective supply chain management One of the long-lasting effects of Covid-19 has been the ongoing disruption of global supply chains...
From Engineering to Service Management, each area’s output is the input to the next—each link relies on the others to form a strong supply chain. For example, Sales and Operations Planning can provide real-time sales results to inform product innovation that drives repeat business. In additio...
the virus is likely to affect its fourth-quarter performance if disruptions continue, JLR declared that the supply chain outside China is also expected to suffer. Nissan will temporarily freeze its production in Kyushu, Japan, as the COVID-19 outbreak starts to pressurise the global supply chain...
Meanwhile, carbon insetting is when businesses invest in carbon reduction schemes within their own supply chains. Examples include a clothing manufacturer planting trees outside its factory, a restaurant growing its own vegetables (to reduce the emissions of the supplier delivering the...
What is SCM (Supply Chain Management) Software? (1:47) We now live in a time of unprecedented global business and trade, not to mention continual technology innovation and rapidly changing customer expectations. Today’s best supply chain strategies call for a demand-driven operating model that...
什么是供应链弹性（What is Supply Chain Resilience）？2021年3月，400米长的长荣海运集装箱船“长赐轮”在埃及苏伊士运河搁浅，6天后才脱困。这一事件导致369艘其他船只排队通过运河，每天给全球贸易造成的损失超过100亿美元。一艘船“堵了”全球供应链，一夜之间让全世界陷入了对供应链的深刻思考：如何建立弹性供应...