The document discusses several topics related to supply chain management. It summarizes a PwC report that found companies with successful supply chain management are twice as profitable as their peers. It also mentions how the Indian steel sector relies on efficient supply chains and how technology plays a key role in enabling information flow throughout the supply chain. Finally, it discusses Levi's commitment to eliminate hazardous chemicals from its supply chain by 2020.

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PWC's report on supply chain management - "Next-generation supply
chains-Efficient, fast and tailored"
PWC has come up with a report - "Next-generation supply chains-Efficient, fast
and tailored", which says, successful supply chain management enables today's
global leaders to be twice as profitable and significantly more responsive to
customers than their peers. Further, the survey said the companies today are
adopting different supply chain capabilities like, collaborative planning, vendor-
managed-inventory and best country sourcing.
Indian steel sector depends highly on efficient supply-chain management
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The competitiveness and future sustainability of the Indian steel sector highly in your organization through
depends on the efficient supply-chain management in steel plant operations, as
supply chain excellence -
maintained by Malay Mukherjee, former Director, Group Management Board,
http://www.tompkinsinc.co
Arcelor Mittal.
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How technology powers supply chain
Supply chain is about managing a network of several interconnected businesses
that are involved in the process of delivering the product to the end customer.
Throughout this process, flow of information from one stage to another plays a
crucial role as it ensures effective decision-making at the planning and execution Read about - TaiichiOhno
stages. When it comes to the flow of information, no other tool or resource can
do it as quickly and accurately as technology. He is considered as father of
the Toyota Production
Mr. Green jeans: Levi’s detoxifies its supply chain System, which became Lean
manufacturing. He devised
Levi’s announced that it would work to detoxify its supply chain, committing the seven wastes (or muda in
itself to zero discharge of hazardous chemicals from its entire production Japanese) as part of this
process—in the U.S. and abroad—by 2020. Levi’s won’t be the first clothing system. He wrote several
brand to make such a pledge—competitors including the fast-fashion retailer books about the system,
Zara had also committed to go toxic-free including Toyota Production
System: Beyond Large-Scale
Production.
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