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Another Asian Trip and Added Apple Sourcing Options

Supply Chain Matters

From a supply chain sourcing perspective, a consistent theme in media reporting has been exploration or hints for added Apple supply chain sourcing. Production currently sourced include products such as iPad , AirPod and the Apple Watch. These latest overtures for new sourcing activities can be interpreted in many dimensions.

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Using Digital Supply Chain Planning to Respond to Market-Changing Disruptions like COVID-19

ToolsGroup

Gartner research shows that companies that continued to increase earnings while others declined in 2009 and 2010 were those that were able to keep their foot on the gas through the downturn because they had planned responses in advance. One US-based ToolsGroup manufacturing customer sources parts from several Chinese and Italian suppliers.

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My Lessons in Interviewing Supply Chains to Admire Award Winners

Supply Chain Shaman

They used the work built together in 2004-2009 to build a course with Georgia Tech for executive training.) The processes of make, source, and deliver reports to a common leader in only 40% of businesses. The event is designed for extreme networking. The event has no sponsorships and no technologist or consultant sales teams.

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Commodity Prices Soar as Risks of Major War Footing Increase

Supply Chain Matters

We add our perspectives as to why businesses and their multi-industry supply chain management teams need to up their game in sensing, responding and agility to ongoing events. There is the notion that when the threat of disruptive events occur, speculators will always be willing to make bets on means to make additional investment gains.

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Inflation is Back Up – Are you Ready?

Herlitz Inventory Management

source: tradingeconomics.com. Since 2009, when Herlitz Inventory Management was founded, annual inflation has been below 3 percent in the US. Events Affecting Inflation. source: thebalance.com. Have we lost the knowledge of how to be profitable during periods of high inflation? Contact us today to get started!

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Stories of Supply Chain Leadership: An Interview with Joan Motsinger of Seagate

Supply Chain Shaman

In our work on the Supply Chains to Admire report , we tracked the progress of manufacturing, retailing and distribution companies for the period of 2006 to 2013 and 2009-2013. Performance of High Tech and Electronics Supply Chains for the Periods of 2006-2013 and 2009-2013. Our first step was to define the leaders.

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Re-thinking the Strategic National Stockpile

NC State SCRC

For instance, the supply of N95 masks in the SNS consisted of inventory acquired during the 2009 SARS epidemic. Its ability to source based on risk was largely determined by scientists, and even then, often involved one-time events, never for a persistent on-going pandemic like COVID.