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Supply Chain Direction II: Collaboration is Key

… And a study underway by Craig Hill at Georgia State University may prove it. In his presentation Performance Aspects of Collaborative Planning Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR) Technologies, Dr. Hill is studying the effects that the implementation of CPFR has had at over 110 compaies that have employed CPFR for over five years. The premises […]

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A Competitive Advantage

The theme of this year’s Fourth Annual Symposium on Supply Chain Management was Optimizing the Supply Chain: Competitive Advantage through Information Technology, and a competitive advantage is what you would have taken away if you had attended.
Despite a relatively low attendance when compared with other eProcurement conferences1, this is by far one of the […]

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Optimizing the Supply Chain

The Fourth Annual International Symposium on Supply Chain Management starts today. It looks like it’s shaping up to be a really good conference. I had some interesting conversations last night. Look forward for some great posts on, and inspired by, the event in the days ahead!

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Fourth Annual International Symposium on Supply Chain Management

Optimizing the Supply Chain: Competitive Advantage through Information Technology
Wednesday, October 4, 2006 to Friday October 6, 2006 Wyndham Bristol Place Hotel - Toronto Airport Toronto, Ontario, Canada
This symposium will outline recent research on the most critical supply chain issues, and discuss solutions adopted by industry leaders. In addition to presentations of competively-selected academic papers […]

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eyefortransport’s 2nd Supply Chain Directions Summit

As I mentioned in my post Supply Chain Direction: Collaboration is Key back in July, eyefortransport’s 2nd Supply Chain Directions Summit is coming up in November. This year it is being held at the Sofitel San Francisco Bay, Redwood, Hotel on November 28-29th in San Francisco, California. (Download the brochure.)
Billed as the only event […]

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