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Using Digital Supply Chain Planning to Respond to Market-Changing Disruptions like COVID-19

ToolsGroup

Macro events like the Coronavirus crisis trigger demand volatility that affects every link in your global supply chain—from the raw materials you procure to setting safety stock levels to planning logistics and promotions. One US-based ToolsGroup manufacturing customer sources parts from several Chinese and Italian suppliers.

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Handfield’s Supply Chain Analytics Predictions for 2014

Supply Chain View from the Field

I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. This complexity is occurring in many forms.

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Logistics Industry’s Slow Economic Comeback Continues in Spite of Challenges

Supply Chain Network

Inventory carrying costs increased 10.3 percent last year due to higher costs for taxes, obsolescence, depreciation, and insurance, which were offset by a further drop in the inventory carrying rate and warehousing costs. Business logistics costs rose to $1.2 trillion, an increase of $114 billion from 2009. percent the year before. “As

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What is Seasonal Inventory and How to Deal With It

EMERGE App

We’ll cover what is meant by seasonal inventory first and then cover some of the problems that it may cause you in the management of your inventory levels. What is Seasonal Inventory? They won’t stop purchasing wine altogether but will buy them according to the season and the food they will pair them with.

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Logistics Bureau Supply Chain and Logistics News Roundup, July 2022

Logistics Bureau

Given that some Asian and South American countries have no compunction about continuing to do business with Russia, and that many companies in the West have trade relationships in Asia and South America, the sanctions have caught many Western companies’ supply chains in a stranglehold. But the problems don’t stop there.

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Global Cargo Monitoring / Cargo Tracking: Networked Supply.

Global Trade Management

By having many service providers involved, which among each other are often not connected, the friction in moving goods from source to destination are very high. As manufactures and retailers increasingly depend on extended rosters of sourcing companies, the resulting networked supply chain requires improved visibility.

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Logistics Imperatives to Manage Uncertainty and Disruptions in 2022: Part 2

BlueYonder

In their 2021 State of Supply Chain Execution Report, as mentioned in part 1, Blue Yonder and Reuters Events found that 63% of retailers and manufacturers have been affected by the availability of labor over the past year. Continued labor shortage and lack of legislation are leading to overworked labor and high turnover. According to the U.S.