Strategy Driven

AUGUST 24, 2017

According to estimates by supply chain management organizations, the global supply chain market is worth more than $10 trillion a year. As a company, managing your supply chain, organizing shipments and coordinating your efforts with other companies takes a lot of planning and effort. Get Better At Returns.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 1, 2023

These businesses operate informally and are unstable, which has significant political implications. Microentrepreneurs not only run small businesses but also participate in supply chains for larger companies, so improving the productivity and profits of microentrepreneurs can have positive impacts throughout the economy.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2024

Suppliers can better align their production schedules with the organization’s needs by fostering open communication and sharing demand forecasts, reducing lead times and improving overall supply chain efficiency. ABC Analysis for Prioritization Not all inventory items are created equal.

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2021

Soft skills of extracting the maximum through good communication, interactions, and engagement tactics are being touted everywhere. How your application of a tool, a supply chain glitch solution, or even getting the correct software to handle administrative tasks helped the ultimate outcomes, can be highlighted.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Warehouses play a vital role in the supply chain and can, therefore, have a dramatic impact on your business’ bottom line. Of course, having a small amount of safety stock is always sensible, but you should reduce this to the bare minimum if you want to run a really smooth operation. Photo courtesy of Pixabay.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction. With a diverse background in human resources, information technology, and operations, his business and leadership acumen is only exceeded by his commitment to making others better.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Safe, Reliable, Cost Effective… Economic demands place increasing pressure on executive and managers to reduce costs while maintaining high levels of operational safety, reliability, and efficiency. eliminating losses incurred as parts become obsolete in the warehouse. …while providing the highest level of parts availability.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 28, 2022

To achieve perpetual growth and increase revenues, businesses need to work closely with all parties involved in fulfilling core business operations. Increased sales can be directly attributed to how successfully a business collaborates with the entire supply chain. Understanding Supply Chain Management.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Economic demands place increasing pressure on executives and managers to reduce costs while maintaining high levels of operational safety and reliability. eliminating losses incurred as parts become obsolete in the warehouse. … while providing the highest level of parts availability. near elimination of expediting costs.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2021

SOPs or standard operating procedures may vary from one company to another. SOPs boost production efficiency because they focus on happy customers, strong supply chains, and safe employees. You can standardize operating procedures after identifying gaps in your employee skills, knowledge, and processes. Bottom Line.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

To make sure that your manufacturing operations can run smoothly and that your business can reach success, here are some top tips to ensure that you can expertly manage your processes and your employees. Get the Right Supplies.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 25, 2020

Businesses that embraced ingenuity and creativity found ways to serve in a socially-distanced environment, and they have learned how to weather the ups and downs of a supply chain that has been impacted at every turn. Right now is the time to get creative and take risks without ideas and tactics.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2020

Unforeseen circumstances aren’t uncommon regardless of the type of business you operate. Whether it’s organizing goods or printing labels, automation can make your logistics chain a lot simpler to manage. Analytics will help you get an objective look at your logistics chain.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

A big challenge in today’s world of far-flung, complex supply chains is the limited understanding of the impact on your operations of unexpected disruption at one supplier’s site. The Future of Operations. It is the maximum duration that the supply chain can match supply with demand after a node disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Either accept it (and its higher costs and lower profits) or take control of your fate with strategic, game-changing actions that cut time and costs from the supply chain. The Future of Operations. The impact on supply chains. The longer your supply chain is, the greater the risk of variability.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2020

All of these crises foreshadowed a reality that the global pandemic of 2020 confirmed: There are systemic weaknesses in most companies’ global supply chains that must be mitigated. COVID-19 has changed virtually everything, including the way electronics manufacturers operate. AUTOMATION AND THE SUPPLY CHAIN.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Special Edition 50 – An Interview with Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of Retailing examines the use of analytics to improve an organization’s supply chain performance in a way that ultimately enhances the bottom line. To read Marshall’s complete biography, click here.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 5, 2011

A leader’s view on competition will not only reveal a lot about their beliefs on current and future market trends, but also on innovation, branding, talent management, supply chain issues, constituency management, capital markets, and customer facing.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 8, 2019

With the customers demanding faster deliveries, field service businesses are now looking to develop a more time-definite supply chain. Operation Costs Have to Be Reduced. They are in a race to conquer the “last-mile” and are seeking the most effective ways to deliver packages of all sizes directly to customers’ homes.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

Pricing impacts everything from strategy and tactics, to finance, to branding, to marketing and sales, to vendor selection and supply chain management, to recruiting and compensation, and to customer satisfaction and loyalty.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

You can mix and match with these tactics, such as doing surface area cycle counts for particular aisles in the warehouse each day but checking large physical item inventory every quarter or year. This knowledge gap prevents your firm from being able to plan for the future or know the true state of operations.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

In such a time, it’s critical for warehouses to operate with both efficiency and flexibility — but many businesses still haven’t taken a good hard look at their warehouse and logistics operations for opportunities to streamline processes and reduce waste. Evaluate technology training practices.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

This applies to every single aspect of your company, from supply chain all the way to employee management. Other efficiency solutions, however, come in the form of new business management tactics and tech tools. Supply Chain Optimization. Software to Manage Remote Traveling Teams.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

It’s a common complaint among top executives: “I’m spending all my time managing trivial and tactical problems, and I don’t have time to get to the big-picture stuff.” Having risen through the supply chain ranks, she spent most of her time reacting to operational missteps and customer complaints.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These collaborations happen in a transparent way and should not be confused with the harmful collusion tactics that we should be vigilant about.). Before explaining how these collaborations can help, it’s important to note that we observe them already in several industries, spanning mining to technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

As soon as you step into a top position at a company that needs to significantly improve the way it operates, there’s pressure to get off to a quick start. The next three tactics help to control the pace of interactions. HBR Staff/Clare Jackson/EyeEm/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

This turmoil led to huge operational shifts in the financial services sector, where there’s more focus than ever on consumer education, industry information sharing, and stronger forms of authentication, among other things. Protect supply chains. Take stock of basic housekeeping.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Toffel: I thought Paul Polman was spot-on when he was breaking down the challenge of corporate sustainability into tactical and systemic issues. Tactics include, for example, labeling claims and how to be clear about what standards we might want to develop, and also about disclosure, when he mentions materiality.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Comparable challenges exist for supply chain management and external partnerships: their collective intelligence may be ripe for algorithmic harvesting, but how well will it link to the rest of the enterprise? Similarly, marketing loves the virality that social media and network effects facilitate.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

It's a way of operating that creates the most value when it's embedded throughout the organization. No, I'm talking here about the more prosaic, everyday, tactical, blocking-and-tackling of business. And these issues require a full-court press from all aspects of operations.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

An increasing number of transportation providers are implementing multimodal transport to improve the efficiency of their operations and get shipments to their destinations at a lower cost. In contrast to intermodal shipping, multimodal shipping only requires communicating with a single operator. Multimodal vs. Intermodal Transport.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

“Introduce yourself, and take a little time to get to know people, how they operate, and how they act.” We have to remember that they may be operating under constraints as well.” You may already know that the other side is under pressure because of supply-chain issues, or new leadership. Make small talk.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2015

States and state-sponsored entities spy on and attack private companies, often using military-grade tactics and capabilities. They don’t have a full picture of what is on their networks, the cloud services they’re using, the applications running on those services, and the security postures of their supply chains and partners.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Those losses stemmed not from poor product, marketing, or supply chain decisions but from regulatory violations, loss of business and fines resulting from bribery and fraud, and concomitant reputational damage. Local subsidiaries have to operate in ways acceptable to the parent company. You have to comply.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

See how even the most successful business operates with only 20% of its staff turning up for work, or only 20% of its IT systems functioning that day, and you’ll see just how quickly even the most titanic corporations can lose value quickly. There are many pillars upon which a competent business rests.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 19, 2016

Whether you’re operating out of your bedroom or you’re a corporate giant, the delivery service matters. At a certain point, your small operation won’t be able to handle everything. The final part of your supply chain solutions should be a reliable delivery provider. Delivery is a core aspect of business.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Supply chain management should be implemented. Growth, defined as increasing revenues each year (rather than improving the quality of company operations). Continuous quality improvement within your own operation. Budgets get politicized.

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