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Supply Chain Magazine: 38 Monthly Essays by Shoko Pic

These essays, published between 2012-2015, explore supply chain challenges and dilemmas that SCMaster Sphere was designed to solve—featuring real-world use cases and practical insights

Topic
Essay#
Vendor Scheduling - Paradigm Shift
1, 2, 3, 5
Export - Manual to Digital
7-10
Vendor Scheduler Issues & Remedies
6,
Freight Audit
4, 29, 30, 38
Supply Chain ROI
20-23
EDI in the Supply Chain
14, 15
Ocean Portals
31-35
Ocean Bulk Carrier
36, 37
Case Studies
11, 12, 13, 39
LCM - Landed Cost Management
16-19
Cloud Computing
24, 25, 26
Supply Chain SCOR & KPI
27, 28
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1-3. VENDOR SCHEDULING  PARADIGM SHIFT

Changing The Vendor Schedulers'  Sisyphic Paradigm into KPI automatic managed process...

Airplane

5. IMPORTING GOODS
HURDLES & CHALLENGES

Importation issues - Hurdles, Challenges and  Remedies.

Freight Insurance

7. ORDER TO CASH #1-
EXPORT MANAGEMENT. cont.

Order To Cash - Sales and Specifically Exportation Process

port and cargo shipping

9. ORDER TO CASH #3-
EXPORT MANAGEMENT..cont.

Total Logistics and Costs Control.

Trailer Inspection_3

11. CASE STUDY #1
TOY'S STORY..cont.

Auto Parts Importer - a Case Study.

Engine Block Pressure Testing

13. CASE STUDY #3
TOY'S STORY.

Auto Parts Importer - a Case Study - Is is Possible? Asked Jenny.

green papers

17. LCM- COSTING #2
LANDED COST MANAGEMENT

Landed Cost Allocation - on Expense Accounts.Continued.

Dollar Bills

19. LCM- COSTING #4
THE LAST FRONTIER

Landed Cost Management  - Where should we seek for?

Image by Omid Armin

21. ROI & KPI #2
VALUE DRIVERS & ENABLERS

ROI & KPI - Some Metrics of the Supply Chain. continued..

Image by Luca Baggio

23. ROI & KPI #4
VOYAGE TO ITHACA

Have we reached Ithaca, or Just Enjoyed the Voyage?

Image by arhihou anas

25. CLOUD COMPUTING #2
PARADIGM SHIFT
​

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -Thomas J. Watson

Display of Stock Market Quotes

27. SCOR #1
​

Supply Chain - Key Performance Indicators, as per SCOR. continued..

Tube Lights

29. FREIGHT AUDIT #1
AGAIN

More of the Same. continued.

Code

33. OCEAN PORTALS #3
WHEN GUNS ROARS...

When Guns Roar the Muses are Silent...
A Diversion

Big Boat

35. OCEAN PORTALS #5
GIANTS 

Sea Monsters Arrived.

Compass

37. SEA LIONS #2
DRY BULK CARRIER

Dry Bulk Ocean carriers, Contract, Demeurage and other Terms.

Business Meeting

39. SAM - AGAIN
CASE STUDY

Customer Case Study.

Office Supply Room

4. SAM FREIGHT VALIDATION

SAM - Smart Freight Auditor captures landed cost bills and automatically audits and accounting posts them.

Market Analysis

6. RE-SCHEDULING-
CONTROL ETA CHANGES

MRP runs' Re Schedule-In and Out create impossible hurdles over Vendor Schedulders ....

Air Carrier Booking

10. ORDER TO CASH #4-
EXPORT MANAGEMENT.

More on Export - SCMaster a Holistics Solution.

Crankshaft Balancing

12. CASE STUDY #2
TOY'S STORY..cont.

Auto Parts Importer - a Case Study - Continued...

Digital social media

14. EDI SAGA #1
ELECT. DATA INTERCHANGE

What is EDI -
How Systems Exchange Data?

Stock Market Down

16. LCM- COSTING #1
LANDED COST MANAGEMENT

Landed Cost Allocation - on Expense Accounts.

Checking Text on a Document

18. LCM- COSTING #3
LANDED COST MANAGEMENT

Landed Cost Allocation - on Expense Accounts. Continued.

Image by Science in HD

20. ROI & KPI #1
RETURN ON INVESTMENT

ROI & KPI - Some Metrics of the Supply Chain. continued...

Image by André François McKenzie

22. ROI & KPI #3
 VALUES OF ANLYTICS

Values of Analytics. continued..

Aerial View of Islands

24. CLOUD COMPUTING #1
NEW ERA

Cloud Computing - Where are we Heading at? continued..

Image by Madhu Shesharam

26. CLOUD COMPUTING #3
EPPUR SI MOVE
​

Earth is Moving...Galileo Galilei.

Stock Market Quotes

28.SCOR #2

SCOR Reference Model.

Digital social media

30. FREIGHT AUDIT #2
AGAIN

If you keep always doing what you've always done, you get the same results. Gareth Southgate

Big Boat

32. OCEAN PORTALS #2
TRIPLE-E

Sea Monsters Arrived.

Computer Circuit Board Macro

34. OCEAN PORTALS #4
​

GT-NEXUS AND INTTRA Ocean Hubs.

dry-bulk.jpg

36. SEA LIONS #1
BULK CARRIER

Sea Monsters Arrived.

Topic
Essay#
Vendor Scheduling - Paradigm Shift
1, 2, 3, 5
Export - Manual to Digital
7-10
Vendor Scheduler Issues & Remedies
6,
Freight Audit
4, 29, 30, 38
Supply Chain ROI
20-23
EDI in the Supply Chain
14, 15
Ocean Portals
31-35
Ocean Bulk Carrier
36, 37
Case Studies
11, 12, 13, 39
LCM - Landed Cost Management
16-19
Cloud Computing
24, 25, 26
Supply Chain SCOR & KPI
27, 28
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