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How Cloud ERP can assist manufacturers with their procurement function

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

As supply chain disruptions continue the procurement function should adapt to improve transparency, build collaborative relationships, and ensure sustainable sourcing practices, resulting in a stronger, more resilient supply chain with Cloud ERP for manufacturing. Strategic sourcing with Cloud ERP.

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5 Factors to Consider for Effective Supply Chain Optimization

RFgen

While many companies have witnessed significant success as world trade shifts toward rapid growth markets such as India, China, Vietnam and Thailand, it is important for businesses to effectively manage variables like cross-border and country taxes. Important Supply Chain Metrics. Granular metrics for high-cost supplies.

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5 Factors to Consider for Effective Supply Chain Optimization

RFgen

While many companies have witnessed significant success as world trade shifts toward rapid growth markets such as India, China, Vietnam and Thailand, it is important for businesses to effectively manage variables like cross-border and country taxes. Important Supply Chain Metrics. Granular metrics for high-cost supplies.

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One Man’s Trash: How Blockchain Can Target Food Waste to Help End World Hunger

Material Handling & Logistics

For organizations that source products from suppliers in remote regions, blockchain can provide clarity in an otherwise murky journey from harvest to retail. billion metric tons—gets lost or wasted. From the wholesale manufacturers in Iowa to the farmers in Bangladesh, change is coming. World hunger is a global epidemic.

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Ensuring Workers’ Rights in Global Supply Chains

Supply Chain Brain

Just about every major manufacturer has a supplier code of conduct to ensure that workers are treated humanely. Most global supply chains are made up of multiple tiers of manufacturing, stretching from production of raw materials to final assembly. Too often, however, those documents fail to prevent unacceptable working conditions.

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Global Manufacturing PMI Levels Rise in January 2024

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters provides a monthly highlights of reported January 2024 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. Overall, global activity reportedly showed signs of increased production output and corresponding activity levels, but the gains were mostly in developing and lower-cost regions. increased 1.1

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KPI Key Performance Indicators in Supply Chain & Logistics

Logistics Bureau

Purchasing and supplier management. Production/manufacturing. A KPI is a metric… but not just any metric. A KPI is a metric focused on a KEY element of business, departmental, or team performance. Later in this article we’ll look at some examples of functional and cross functional KPIs. Inventory management.

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