Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 18, 2024

Supply Chain Matters again points to the conflicting stakeholder interests that continue to result in U.S. wide shortages of life saving pharmaceutical and drug supply. That number is the highest reported since 2014, including the period of the Covid-19 pandemic during the years 2020 to 2023.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 22, 2021

.” The web site goes on to note, “Today, Earth Day is widely recognized as the largest secular observance in the world, marked by more than a billion people every year as a day of action to change human behavior and create global, national and local policy changes. ” But: decarbonizing supply chains is hard.

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Kinaxis

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In my opinion, these are factors that led to the pollsters being so far off on the 2016 US election, and how supply chain practitioners can help these pollsters to improve. Multi-tasking, I was reading Bill’s blog while I was watching the 2014 movie Godzilla. Balance is also critical for supply chains.

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ivalua

MARCH 17, 2021

To reduce inefficiencies and fraud, grant activities are governed by several regulations including these two relatively recently enacted laws: The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 (DATA Act) – This law expands on federal awards reporting reforms that began with the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 1, 2015

Transparent supply chain management and effective supply chain visibility is a critical tool in a company’s continued growth and successful brand image. Some companies do not adhere to policy in a country that has little oversight of what many deem proper work conditions. Reevaluating Wages.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

The success of your business links inextricably to the performance of your supply chain. you have to make your supply chain successful too. Supply Chain and Business Success By the Numbers. Conversely, just 8% of businesses with less capable supply chains report above-average growth.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The connective tissue of the circular economy is the supply chain. As MIT academics Alexis Bateman, Eva Ponce, and Inma Borrella, explain, “Circular supply chains are at the heart of efforts to tackle the massive environmental problems created by waste and end-of-life products.”[2]. Procurement. Product design.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 29, 2020

If the word collaboration was listed on a card as a drinking game at supply chain conferences, we would be drunk at many. While we speak of collaboration, the focus is on driving enterprise results not value in value chains. As complexity increased, we did not design the supply chain to absorb greater variability.

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CormSquare

JANUARY 24, 2017

But the question is, what are the other main challenges in procurement being faced today? This survey was done on 324 senior procurement lea ders fr om 33 countries offering a deep insight into current procurement preoccupations. There is plenty to worry about. Cost Reduction. This level is higher than the previous year, 69%.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

As supply chain clichés take flight, clients struggle with execution. One of these concepts that I hear a lot; but see few tangible examples, is the idea of “customer-segmented supply chain.” The discussion of customer-segmented supply chains happens often. How will the policy be executed?

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Resilinc

APRIL 19, 2022

The International Energy Agency recently estimated that demand for these five minerals and rare earth elements will grow ten times by 2040 in a baseline scenario based on current government policies—and by 30 times in a scenario with more aggressive policies. Molycorp went bankrupt in 2014, selling its assets to a Chinese owned firm.

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AFFLINK

MARCH 6, 2017

In the foodservice industry, there are few better examples of great procurement management than McDonald's. Excellent procurement is part of the reason that McDonald's has been able to grow from a small family barbecue restaurant into a global conglomerate with more than 35,000 restaurants in over 110 different countries.

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EcoVadis

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Bateman also emphasized the differences between visibility, transparency, and traceability and urged procurement executives to prioritize each concept accordingly. San Francisco. He emphasized the need to strategically align people and resources before initiating a new process or technology.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 21, 2017

Now, moving on to this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Amazon won a patent for an on-demand clothing manufacturing warehouse (Recode). JDA Unleashes New Levels of Supply Chain Visibility Across its Portfolio with TransVoyant. And the garage door company is coming this morning to replace the crumpled door.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 2, 2016

In this week’s Ripped from the Headlines segment, another example of how many companies still have poor visibility and control of their end-to-end supply chains. As I’ve said many times before, there is no silver bullet for supply chain visibility. How do you begin to improve supply chain visibility and control?

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2016

This is not only true for financial investments, but also for supply chain and logistics predictions. Like I said last year, making supply chain and logistics predictions is like throwing darts at a moving target: sometimes you get lucky and hit the mark; other times you miss the bullseye by a mile.

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Claritum

JANUARY 8, 2020

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Procurement's influence with an orchestrated Marketplace. This article looks at the use of business to business orchestrated Marketplaces and online catalogues to mitigate the people factor of any procurement process. 3 Procurement’s influence with an orchestrated Marketplace.

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EcoVadis

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Numerous companies, including Adidas , GE , and Coca-Cola have endorsed the GPs; and as of 2014, eight governments , including the United States , have either developed, or are currently developing, national action plans on how they will guide businesses to implement the GPs. What is this about? •

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 30, 2022

55 Supply Chain & Logistics Experts You Should Follow on Social. Original Article: 55 Supply Chain & Logistics Experts You Should Follow on Social. Prior to the pandemic, most folks who weren’t in the industry didn’t give much thought to global supply chains. Lisa Anderson. Richard Baldwin.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JANUARY 11, 2013

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. TradeEdge – Demand Chain Management. Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions.

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RFgen

AUGUST 14, 2017

If counterfeit electronic parts make it through the supply chain and into a mission-critical military asset, the potential for a worst-case scenario increases. In 2014, Massachusetts resident Pierre Picone pleaded guilty to selling counterfeit integrated circuits (IC) to the U.S. Navy over the course of 5 years.

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Claritum

JANUARY 8, 2020

procurement process. procurement process automation. of the organisation’s Procurement team. changes, they do so with the approval of the Procurement team. changes, they do so with the approval of the Procurement team. One of the greatest barriers to effective procurement automation is people. Providing the.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MAY 10, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. TradeEdge – Demand Chain Management. Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions.

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Claritum

AUGUST 23, 2019

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Why is diversity of supply important. Strategic approach to supply diversity. Indirect spend and supply diversity. Many medium sized businesses are also looking at diversity in their supply chains, for the reasons explained in this article. Accessing new supply channels.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JUNE 26, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. TradeEdge – Demand Chain Management. Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions.

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IQMS

JULY 11, 2019

Reducing supply chain forecasting errors by 50% and lost sales by 65% with better product availability is achievable with machine learning. Asset Management, Supply Chain Management, and Inventory Management are the hottest areas of artificial intelligence, machine learning and IoT adoption in manufacturing today.

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NC State SCRC

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

NC State’s Supply Chain Resource Cooperative has played an important role in the development of these ratings, since the early days of its development. Development of the model began in 2014, and included several prototype phases, with increasingly larger samples of companies included. Microsoft.

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Provenance

AUGUST 13, 2018

Provenance has partnered with the Swedish Agency for Growth Policy Analysis Agency (Growth Analysis) , to explore how blockchain technology can help to valorise sustainable practices in the Rare Earth Elements mining sector. Interested in understanding how supply chain transparency could benefit your business? The result?

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. TradeEdge – Demand Chain Management. Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. TradeEdge – Demand Chain Management. Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

APRIL 30, 2012

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. TradeEdge – Demand Chain Management. Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MARCH 6, 2014

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. TradeEdge – Demand Chain Management. Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

MARCH 4, 2013

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. TradeEdge – Demand Chain Management. Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. TradeEdge – Demand Chain Management. Supply Chain Management. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 20, 2017

I will be wrong again,” I stated last year before making my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2017 , and I was right. But I was right with some of my other predictions, especially my prediction that we would see a rise in cyber attacks in 2017, with supply chain and logistics operations becoming new targets.

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