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How Can Life Sciences Supply Chains Navigate a Disrupted World?

Logility

Therefore, superior management of the life sciences supply chain is essential for many reasons, including: Quality control On-time shipments Operational consistency Customer satisfaction. Optimizing Critical Supply Chain Functions. The Digital Transformation of the Life Sciences Industry. Brad Pawlowski, Accenture.

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RFID in the Supply Chain: Fizzling Technology or the Future of Effective SCM?

GlobalTranz

In 2003, Walmart announced that all of its suppliers would need to have Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags on all pallets and cases by 2006. Historically, the cost of RFID implementation and difficulty to utilize RFID in conjunction with other supply chain systems has hindered mass adoption by supply chain managers.

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This Week In Supply Chain Management Tech April 4 2023

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters features its latest full edition of This Week in Supply Chain Tech , a compilation of funding, partnership and other noteworthy announcements related to supply chain technology support. Our last full edition was published on February 14. billion in Generative AI start-up Anthropic.

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Two Important Questions About the Future of Freight Moves

Talking Logistics

Freight tons moving on the nation’s transportation network will grow 40 percent in the next three decades while the value of the freight will almost double, increasing by 92 percent, according to the latest projections by the U.S. trillion in 2015). trillion in 2015). That is the “hundreds of billions of dollars” question.

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The worst Supply Chain practices must be confessed and not only by constraint

KEPLER Consulting

Responding to the ever-changing expectations of consumers in a highly competitive digital economic environment involves having a solid, agile, and cost-effective Supply Chain. After all, companies need to minimize and monitor the most harmful supply chain management practices. The importance of a robust supply chain.

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Coronavirus Highlights Fragility of Global Supply Networks

Jaggaer

But even if containment has the desired effect, what are the wider consequences of shutting down schools, shopping centers, factories, transportation and supply networks? Procurement professionals around the world are sitting up and paying attention, especially in sectors with globally integrated supply chains.

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Supply Chain Disruptions Are New Opportunities – LogiSYM October/November 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Unlike SARS in 2003, the Covid-19 pandemic has spawned an unprecedented Global health pandemic. As a result, Global Supply Chains have experienced severe “Supply side Shocks” with massive disruptions impinging on all sectors. SUPPLY CHAIN DISRUPTION—Respond, Recover and Regrow. Crisis Recovery.