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Business Continuity Affects All Your Supply Chain

Logistics Bureau

One way might be to have a backup solution ready to use. Choosing BC Solutions. Once you have a good idea about the things that can go wrong, you need to plan for solutions. Taken to extremes, reckless spending on business continuity might even make your business go bankrupt, which would defeat the point of the exercise.

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Supply Chain Career Changes – How to Get In, Get On, and Get What You Want

Logistics Bureau

The variety of functions involved – product design, procurement, warehousing, production, transport, distribution, sales, for instance – encourages demand for new employees and multiplies possibilities for moving around inside too. Supply chain is often what people define it to be. No person is an island.

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Supply Chain Roundtable Series: Optimising the Manufacturing Supply Chain

Unleashed

We assemble bespoke solutions on site. Often, we end up asking the partner in Germany or Spain or somewhere, ‘Can you air freight this? It’s a constant headache for our purchasing manager. Accurate data is essential for making the right decisions around purchasing and resource planning. The solution is hiding in the data.

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Logistics KPIs Case Study: Whirlpool’s Supply Chain and Logistics Success Driven by Effective KPI Implementation

GlobalTranz

Solutions / Results: Through the lead logistics provider or 4PL and shipper relationship, the 4PL assumed responsibility for execution and management of other 3PLs. The 4PL built a new routing tool specifically for Whirlpool that offered overall cost optimization and mode selection.

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50 expert tips on supply chain management

6 River Systems

It’s likely that in the coming months and years, many supply chain leaders will look to automation solutions that help to minimize physical contact and the number of touches required to move products through the supply chain. “Business leaders should also look at how new tools and technologies can provide greater intelligence.

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Vendor Managed Inventory Model for Supply Chain Cost Reductions

GlobalTranz

The manufacturer has access to the distributor’s inventory data and is responsible for generating purchase orders. Definition: Solicit your suppliers to come into your company to assist you with Supply Chain Cost Reductions, and other important issues, rather than your suppliers soliciting your purchasing dollar. If not, modify it.

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10 Vital Supply Chain Lessons from the Coronavirus Pandemic!

Supply Chain Game Changer

The medical community is looking for solutions and treatments to contain, if not eliminate the virus, through existing medicines or new vaccines. For far too long Supply Chain has been considered a back office, transactional functions placing purchasing orders and moving and receiving goods. Supply Chain Lessons.