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Study Shows Two-Thirds of Companies Yet to Execute Digital Transformation in Supply Chain Planning

ToolsGroup

Digital transformation is not seen as a singular activity but a set of interrelated activities that span across people, process, technology, policy, and metrics,” said George Fowler, group vice president in Spinnaker’s Supply Chain business unit. Visit www.ToolsGroup.com and follow us on Twitter @ToolsGroup. About Spinnaker.

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What does increasing regulatory oversight mean for the pharma supply chain?

The Network Effect

Due to more complex supply chains, policy makers worldwide are enforcing stricter regulations for manufacturing and logistics. Within a decade, the number of FDA warning letters sent to medical device manufacturers has increased threefold, from 61 letters in 2002 to 181 in 2012 (EC A 2012).

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2024 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains- Prediction One

Supply Chain Matters

There are building needs for positioning supply chain risk mitigation strategies toward more implied regionalization of supply chain sourcing, along governmental induced trade policies impacts on industry supply networks. Global trade was reportedly set to contract by 5 percent in 2023 compared to 2002, amounting to upwards of $30.7

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What’s New with MMOG/LE Version 5?

QAD

The MMOG/LE assessment has been a go-to document for automotive supply chain best practices for thousands of global Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers since its first publication in 2002. More emphasis on risk management and contingency plans throughout the supply chain including a cybersecurity policy. np stands for: New Platform).

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Steel Tariff Proposition: Will It Work?

Elementum

The proposed tariff policy hinges primarily on two things. The proposed policy uses Section 232 as a means to justify this view, however, there have been questions raised as to whether the current unemployment rate of 4.3% This viewpoint is based on choices made by previous administrations: in 2002, for example, former U.S.

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Snapshot of 2023 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains- Part One

Supply Chain Matters

Downside risks that include monetary policy miscalculations, an uncertain outcome to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict and further supply network disruptions as a result of more far-reaching spread of Covid variant infection rates across China. Global trade slowing to one percent from an estimated 3.5 percent in 2022 and 9.7 a 30-month low.

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Intelligent IBP: A Need for Decision Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

Palmatier and Crum (2002), Coldrick, Ling, and Turner (2003) and Bob Stahl (2009) all assert that S&OP is first and foremost an executive decision-making process. But it is good to remember that the early pioneers always designed S&OP, the predecessor of IBP, as an executive decision-making forum.