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The Skinny on Inflation

LevaData

in the 12 months leading up to June 2021, reaching its highest level since August 2008. Learn more about the power of our solutions here , and then schedule a demo to see what we can do to safeguard your sourcing and procurement strategies. According to the U.S. Additionally, 6.6%

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The Importance of International Transportation Visibility in a Global Pandemic

3rdwave

I just got off a call from the Director of Supply Chain with a retailer who is experiencing major angst because many of their products are directly or indirectly sourced overseas. His indirect supply chain is sourced through 3rd party importers who sell them on a DDP basis. Covid-19 wreaks havoc with global supply chains.

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Supply Chain Scope: New Study Shows Rise in US Inventories; California Estimated to Improve Freight Efficiency by 25% in 2030

Arkieva

the “inventory to sales” ratio (inventory levels divided by a month’s worth of sales) spiked in late 2008/early 2009 as the recession caught companies with way more inventory than needed versus suddenly shrinking demand. Source: Commerce Dept. Source: SupplyChainDigest. Source: Supply Chain Shaman.

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Clean, Crisp data drives sales at Rebel Green

crisp

Since launching in 2008, Rebel Green’s product line has grown to include a variety of certified organic, eco-friendly soaps, cleaning products, household items, and bamboo paper goods. The only way to do that was with data, so he turned to his retail and syndicated data sources to get some signals. The pandemic sales spike and crash.

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Walking a Tightrope During Coronavirus

EC Sourcing Group

Most of us remember the financial crisis of 2008 and September 11 and how we came back stronger. Investigate available solutions to automate manual processes and consider setting up demos. Many should consider how they will conduct business on the day no new cases are reported. If I had to put this in one word it would be Focus.

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Top 2016 Supply Chain Strategy Posts from the Supply Chain Link Blog

Arkieva

In this post, Bram Desmet outlines the three main categories of supply chain complexity — Planning/Sourcing/Making/Delivering, Processes/People/Tools/Analytics, the impact of fast changing technology, increasing market speed and turbulence, attracting and developing talent. Supply Chain Complexity 1 – Plan/Source/Make/Deliver/….

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How to Thrive Amidst Constant Disruptions

Arena Solutions

We had to scramble and find additional exact matching sources. One is economic, just historically large cyclical disruptions, from the bubble in 2000 to the crash of 2008, and then really about till the pre-pandemic time period, is just a lot of growth and then flattening and growth and then flattening. George Lewis Makes sense.