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Wal-Mart's green label and you
Wal-Mart's plans to develop a "green" label for products sold in its stores could become a headache for many supply chain managers —and not just for those in the retail industry.
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A rudder for course correction
In today's volatile business environment, supply chain managers cannot always be confident that their plans will play out as intended. Despite this uncertainty, few companies have a formalized method of responding when circumstances change unexpectedly. That's where "sales and operations management" (S&OM) comes in. S&OM provides a sense-and-respond mechanism that connects sales and operations planning (S&OP) with plan execution, thereby increasing plan achievement, improving supply chain resiliency, and providing a framework for monitoring performance....
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