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Is It a Good Idea to Invest in Hiring a Purchasing Manager?

Precoro

In the article, we look critically at the role of the purchasing manager and discuss how to determine the value of hiring one. Reducing the price on the tag while maintaining the quality is often a crucial market advantage. It lowers the cost of production and, subsequently – prices for the end customers. Sign up for a demo here.

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How to Become DFARS Compliant and Avoid Counterfeit Parts in the Aerospace and Defense Supply Chain

RFgen

This article will examine the scale of the counterfeit parts problem and what’s changed in acquisition regulations to try to address it. The SASC “discovered counterfeit electronic parts from China in the Air Force’s largest cargo plane, in assemblies intended for Special Operations helicopters, and in a Navy surveillance plane.”

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29 warehouse & automation experts share insights on how warehouse robots will impact industry employment

6 River Systems

This chart from the MIT Technology Review shows a picture of how little everyone agrees on how/if automation replaces jobs, while this article for Forbes does a good job of explaining how automation has affected jobs through history (on the wider scale, it actually tends to create more jobs than it replaces). It also points to smarter use.

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Blockchain: The Technology Reshaping SCM!

Supply Chain Game Changer

It was reported in mid-June by Zion Market Research that global “blockchain technology in supply chain management marke t was valued at around USD 40.99 If you feel a bit lost and want to (re)acquaint yourself with the basics of blockchain technology, check out this article for a bit more insight. regarding ownership?—?throughout

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Do Americans Really Want Splendid Isolation?

Enterra Insights

For example, an email I received from Axios noted that one far-right clothing company was recently fined by the Federal Trade Commission for ripping out “Made in China” tags and replacing them with “Made in America” tags. It’s nothing to worry about.'” ”[4]. .”

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“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”: The argument for creating an analytics culture

NC State SCRC

Shadow IT – where non-IT departments leverage technology to build their own analytics solutions, charts or graphs, often introducing IT risk because of improper security measures or interpretation of Shadow IT often happens when business stakeholders are frustrated with the slowness of obtaining the analytics they critically need.