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Another Asian Trip and Added Apple Sourcing Options

Supply Chain Matters

Visits to Vietnam , Singapore and Indonesia have featured itineraries that included meeting with governmental leaders, technology users, content providers and other groups. The statement reportedly came after meeting with the country’s President Joko Widodo. percent compared with second place in the year-ago period.

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Rail 101 with Ian Jefferies

The Logistics of Logistics

From 2009 to 2013, Jefferies served as a senior policy advisor to the Chairman of the U.S. on critical transportation and related issues, AAR ensures that the freight rail industry will continue to meet America’s transportation needs today and tomorrow. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.

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Who Should Be In The Winner’s Circle?

Supply Chain Shaman

Heavily booked and running from meeting to meeting, I was late. The topic of the meeting was the logistics to launch of the AMR Research Top 25. The topic of the meeting was the logistics to launch of the AMR Research Top 25. Since the Supply Chains to Admire is a data-driven analysis, it is less subject to industry bias.

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Supply Chain Optimization for Consumer Packaged Goods Inventory

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Between 2000 and 2009, the average profit for this industry grew by over 10% year on year, but over the next decade, annual profit growth fell to just 3.2%. This high level of variability causes longer lead times and poor responsiveness up the supply chain when manufacturers and distributors don’t have enough supply to meet demand.

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Technology Can Help Feed the World, Part 2

Enterra Insights

The editorial team at Analytics Insight notes, “The technological revolution that is currently happening in the agricultural sector became possible, among other things, due to big data. Collecting and analyzing big data can not only improve the productivity of individual farms but also help halt a global food crisis. revolution.

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Strategic Procurement: 4 Tactics for Economic Recovery in 2021

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Leading Procurement organizations who had the right procurement processes and supply chain technologies in place were able to mitigate the impact of that disruption by staying agile and providing businesses with the supply chain data they needed to make rapid, informed business-decisions. Help staff sell procurement’s value during recovery.

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My Lessons in Interviewing Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

In business conversations, the term supply chain excellence rolls off the tongue frequently in meetings, but what does it mean? We calculate the results based on public data from the period 2012-2021. They used the work built together in 2004-2009 to build a course with Georgia Tech for executive training.) My insight?