Strengthen your global supply chain with ally sourcing
Maine Pointe
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Strengthen your supply chain with ally-sourcing.
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Maine Pointe
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Strengthen your supply chain with ally-sourcing.
Maine Pointe
OCTOBER 3, 2023
The ways that supply chains can go wrong have been multiplying. From ships stuck sideways in the Suez Canal to low water levels in the Panama Canal, from pandemics to tariff wars, a company’s supply chain is more and more vulnerable to forces beyond its control. While control may not be achievable, fast recovery is.
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Maine Pointe
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Unlock profit growth for small energy firms with strategic supply chain optimization. Overcome hurdles and excel with SGS Maine Pointe's insights.
Maine Pointe
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Discover solutions to logistics problems like weather, traffic accidents, and productivity decreases with a resilient supply chain, preparation, and tools.
Maine Pointe
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Recognizing a Resilient Supply Chain The ways that supply chains can go wrong have been multiplying. From ships stuck sideways in the Suez Canal to low water levels in the Panama Canal, from pandemics to tariff wars, a company’s supply chain is more and more vulnerable to forces beyond its control. While control may not be achievable, fast recovery definitely is.
Maine Pointe
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Dive into manufacturing challenges, from labor shortages to tech advances, and solutions for supply chain optimization amidst global uncertainties.
Maine Pointe
AUGUST 4, 2023
The Importance of Integrating Sustainability into Your Business Model Sustainability as an add-on is doomed to fail. It costs too much, is too hard to measure, and is easy to shove aside for other priorities. But when sustainability is an integral part of products and services, it also becomes an integral part of a company’s ability to improve profits, customer relationships, and regulatory compliance.
Maine Pointe
JULY 31, 2023
Inflation is cooling, but will that last? Consumer confidence is up, but will that last? Much of the pandemic-related labor shortage and supply chain disruption has been mitigated, but will that last?
Maine Pointe
JULY 18, 2023
Explore the challenges and opportunities in the 2023 oilfield services market. Learn strategies to navigate headwinds and maximize tailwinds for success.
Maine Pointe
JUNE 15, 2023
Explore how AI is revolutionizing supply chain management by enhancing decision-making, improving efficiency, and driving growth. Learn about the power of predictive analytics, machine learning, NLP, and more.
Maine Pointe
MAY 24, 2023
By Collin Ziemerink, Head of Industrial Manufacturing & Services
Maine Pointe
MAY 10, 2023
By Dan Ginsberg, Managing Director, Private Equity
Maine Pointe
MAY 3, 2023
By Nathanael Powrie, Managing Director, Data Analytics
Maine Pointe
APRIL 25, 2023
By Tiffany Pankratz-Umbehr, Head of Consumer Goods & Retail
Maine Pointe
APRIL 19, 2023
By Douglas Radtke, Senior Director at SGS Maine Pointe
Maine Pointe
APRIL 13, 2023
By Bob Brennan, Head of Integrated Solutions
Maine Pointe
APRIL 5, 2023
Supplier, capacity, geographic, and leadership optionality optimize the end-to-end supply chain
Maine Pointe
APRIL 4, 2023
These days oil and natural gas energy suppliers are making a profit: Shell and BP, for example, reported profit increases of over 200% and investments in green energy reached an all-time high of over $1 trillion.
Maine Pointe
MARCH 15, 2023
By Stephen Ottley, Senior Managing Director, Chemicals & Energy
Maine Pointe
MARCH 9, 2023
Suppliers with power are able to raise prices, arbitrarily decide which companies they will work with, and issue threats when their demands are unmet. That power increases if a company fears to change suppliers or balks at the cost of switching; if the company’s procurement function is new, untrained, or siloed; or if the company has no insight into the potential value it is leaving on the table.
Maine Pointe
MARCH 4, 2023
By Stephen Ottley, Senior Managing Director, Chemicals & Energy, and Jeff Staub, CEO
Maine Pointe
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
Many businesses and investors are finding that in an environment with tighter lending practices, higher interest rates, and inflated operational costs, that their cash is tied up in inventory, receivables, and payables. As a result, managing liquidity and raising free cashflow will be a top priority in 2023. Dan Ginsberg, Managing Director, SGS Maine Pointe, outlines why a holistic approach to optimizing working capital needs to balance releasing cash with reducing costs and improving service.
Maine Pointe
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
Written by Andrew Rader, Managing Director, SGS Maine Pointe
Maine Pointe
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Governance, employee, and supply chain practices in Life Sciences companies can make or break IP security Intellectual property (IP) protection enables Life Sciences companies—including pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and biomedical—to earn the rewards of innovation and to safely inspire others to build upon their ideas. Life Sciences IP security requires that you find and close the gaps in your governance, employee, and supply chain practices.
Maine Pointe
JANUARY 26, 2023
After an exciting National Retail Federation (NRF) Big Show in New York City, I spent the following weekend in Orlando, FL where I enjoyed not only warmer temperatures, but the exciting Food Industry Association FMI Mid-Winter Conference. It was a great opportunity to bring together food manufacturers and retailers to discuss trends in technology, supply chain, sustainability, and shared goals for growth.
Maine Pointe
JANUARY 24, 2023
Optimism flowed through National Retail Federations’ Big Show , propelled by 40,000 attendees, nearly 1,000 vendors, and hundreds of speakers from around the globe.
Maine Pointe
JUNE 2, 2022
The post-Covid labor shortage feels unprecedented. The National Association of Manufacturing predicts that over 2.1 million jobs will go unfilled through 2030 in that industry alone.
Maine Pointe
JULY 12, 2022
CPG companies garner multiple benefits from automation—at a cost. For the CPG industry, automation means better information management; more opportunities for on-line sales, including direct-to-consumer; and more efficient, safer manufacturing.
Maine Pointe
AUGUST 10, 2022
Changing Big Data into Action. The consumer goods and retail (CGR) industry is adept at gathering customer data. According to industry estimates , 2.5 billion gigabytes of data about customers are gathered every day across the world, clearly meeting the definition of “big data.” In the last 50 years, the volume, variety, and velocity of data collection has increased beyond all expectations.
Maine Pointe
AUGUST 29, 2022
Maine Pointe
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues are increasingly important to consumers and making headlines more often, as shown by allegations of “greenwashing,” the rise of resellers, and state legislation banning single-use plastic bags.
Maine Pointe
OCTOBER 11, 2022
The European Central Bank published an economic bulletin predicting global supply chain headwinds for the next 18-24 months. Supplier performance is creating supply chain imbalances; and when compared to consumer demand, is the biggest cause of supply chain disruption.
Maine Pointe
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Avoid the high cost of siloed data. Silos develop in industrial manufacturing companies for many reasons, including competition between groups or functions for limited resources, misinterpretations of goals and priorities, management indifference, and an individual’s desire to stand out as an expert.
Maine Pointe
DECEMBER 14, 2022
Written by Lee Cocis, SGS Maine Pointe Managing Director, Energy & Utility. Risks from weather, terrorist attacks, and cyber threats are growing.
Maine Pointe
DECEMBER 27, 2022
Co-written by Joe Esteves, Dan Ginsberg, and Scott Sparks.
Maine Pointe
JANUARY 3, 2023
How to Focus Your Integrated Supply Chain on Your Most Important Organizational Goals. In an integrated plan-buy-make-move supply chain, each link from procurement to distribution and from sourcing to customer satisfaction affects every other link. However, because the supply chain is so closely interconnected, any communication, capacity, or capability gap in one area jeopardizes all the others.
Maine Pointe
DECEMBER 27, 2022
Co-written by Joe Esteves, Dan Ginsberg, and Scott Sparks.
Maine Pointe
DECEMBER 27, 2022
Co-written by Joe Esteves, Dan Ginsberg, and Scott Sparks.
Maine Pointe
DECEMBER 27, 2022
Co-written by Joe Esteves, Dan Ginsberg, and Scott Sparks.
Maine Pointe
DECEMBER 14, 2022
Written by Lee Cocis, SGS Maine Pointe Managing Director, Energy & Utility. Risks from weather, terrorist attacks, and cyber threats are growing.
Maine Pointe
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Avoid the high cost of siloed data. Silos develop in industrial manufacturing companies for many reasons, including competition between groups or functions for limited resources, misinterpretations of goals and priorities, management indifference, and an individual’s desire to stand out as an expert.
Maine Pointe
OCTOBER 11, 2022
The European Central Bank published an economic bulletin predicting global supply chain headwinds for the next 18-24 months. Supplier performance is creating supply chain imbalances; and when compared to consumer demand, is the biggest cause of supply chain disruption.
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