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Sep
Back to School for Supply Chain Professionals!
Yes, sad to say it but this is coming weekend is the last of what has been an absolutely glorious summer! But now it’s time to get back in the saddle and take the world’s supply chains to the next level and what better way to do this than engaging in some professional development!
SCN has partnered with AKCELL Consulting to offer all SCN members a 10% discount on their courses! Just logon with user name scn@ackcellconsulting.com and use password scnmembers to access the discounted registration.
Below are two courses rapidly approaching you may want to look into:
Strategic Sourcing for Professionals Toronto Sept. 29-30,Ottawa Oct. 5-6,Calgary Oct 19-20
Structured Negotiations for Success Toronto,Oct 12-13,Ottawa Oct 26-27,Calgary Nov. 19-20
So join for a course this Fall and learn from the best, Chris Provost, author of Grow Your Profits will be joining AKCELL Sept 7th as Senior Vice President of Value Chain Consulting and Training, from Walmart where he was the Director of Fleet, Strategy & Shared Services and Director of National Transportation he led among other areas Logistics-Transportation Strategic Sourcing and Negotiations; he has also led Network Logistics with Unilever Foodservice and Supply Chain Operations as Senior Directing Manager with Fellowes.
January 8th, 2011 at 4:08 pm
Supply Chain Dilemma
For a Sales class, we have to find a solution to a supply chain dilemma. “Our” company sells fish around the world. 60% of our volume comes from smaller deliveries and about 40% of our volume comes from selling full container loads to bigger importers. However, “our” company started to notice that sales from some bigger importers started to decline. The reason: They started to buy directly from “our” own suppliers now.
This is of course a big problem for us and we have to find a strategic option for this case. What can we do short term and what can we do long term to solve this problem but still be able to realize the necessary growth in the future?
It would be really great to hear some suggestions from you as we struggle a lot gathering information on this specific topic. For any kind of answer we are very thankful!