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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. No person is an island. This is especially true when working in supply chain.

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No Easter Bunny?

Supply Chain Shaman

The traditional supply chain is inside-out, triggering processes on the back of order-to-cash and procure-to-pay financial processes. The CIO budget is hamstrung with system upgrades and software license payments. There is a belief that the efficient response—the tightly integrated lean supply chain—defines supply chain excellence.

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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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Making a Business Case for Change: A Q&A with Public Sector Procurement Leaders

ivalua

Change isn’t easy, especially when it comes to transforming how Procurement operates in an enterprise governmental agency or organization. In a recent webinar, Ivalua spoke with two leaders from top-performing Procurement agencies in the public sector and a subject-matter-expert practitioner: .

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Energy and Labour Costs: 2 Top Warehousing Challenges in 2023

Logistics Bureau

Of course, switching to more efficient lighting requires significant investment, especially if you choose induction lights, which are particularly expensive to procure. You should also look into the zoning of heat and air conditioning solutions if these features are absent from your existing systems. Are Our Processes Optimal?

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Supply Chain Roundtable Series: Optimising the Manufacturing Supply Chain

Unleashed

We assemble bespoke solutions on site. It’s a constant headache for our purchasing manager. You’ve got to be really leaning into your customers and getting as much information from them as possible, but also trying to find as many similar products as possible to gain some kind of insight from them.

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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.