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Stories of Supply Chain Leadership: An Interview with Joan Motsinger of Seagate

Supply Chain Shaman

Many companies talk about Supply Chain Excellence, but most leaders struggle to define it. One supply chain leader, in a discussion last week, likened supply chain excellence to fitness. He felt that supply chain excellence was analogous. and Singapore. As a goal, it is easier to say than to define. His reasoning?

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Seco Tools: Cutting Edge Supply Chain Strategy Takes Shape

Logility

Seco Tools manufactures cutting tools made of steel, tungsten carbide and cobalt. Historically, customers held their own inventory. This became an expensive proposition for the industry, which gave way to placing the responsibility (and cost) back on the manufacturer to hold inventory and deliver it when needed.

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Essential Skills for Supply Chain Leaders in Asia during Pandemic

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Changing Landscape of Supply Chain Executives Traditionally, supply chain executives excelled in managing functions like transportation, warehousing, inventory, and production planning but supply chain process extends beyond the firm, involving global relationships with suppliers and customers.

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Decoding the cross-border eCommerce puzzle

Vinculum

Notably, the APAC countries have seen a significant change in consumer buying behavior. The consumers in Malaysia, for instance, want to buy a product in Singapore can now buy it from their own country. The consumers go through different platforms before buying a product and choose a cheaper deal.

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The Beginning of the Beginning: A Progress Report on the Digitisation of Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Inventory tracking enables flexible e-Commerce fulfillment models and allows for managing shocks caused by shop closures. Suppliers need to prioritise actions to support solutions. Shipment and lane data can alert of disruptions and bottlenecks on route and provide information about the best transit options.

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Freeports: The 2022 Guide

Unleashed

We answer all these questions and more – including how inventory management software will help you manage your supply chain for your freeport warehouse or factory. They especially encourage manufacturing and design enterprises that import, process and then re-export goods. In this 2022 guide to freeports: What is a freeport?

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E-commerce Logistics Management: How can you overcome Supply Chain Challenges in the Philippines?

Vinculum

To maintain an e-commerce platform, a business person must look into several operations like inventory or warehouse management and logistic management. As per the report of Facebook and Bain & Company, online purchasing has been grown from 33% to 45% in 2021 in countries like the Philippines, Singapore, and Malaysia.