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Supply Chain Best Practices: Preparing for the Worst

Elementum

Supply chain disruptions are inevitable, whether resulting from natural disasters, technical failures, worker strikes, or other unforeseen incidents. What can supply chain managers do to ensure that action is taken quickly and efficiently when disruption strikes? Identify Risks in Your Supply Chain.

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NASCES 2016: End-to-End Supply Chain Management Transformations

Kinaxis

by Trevor Miles I was at the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit in Chicago earlier this week. But I couldn’t help think that much of the advice was focused on doing well what we have been doing in supply chain for the past 20-30 years. percent) and lowest in Puerto Rico (22.3

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Supply Chain Best Practices: Preparing for the Worst

Elementum

Supply chain disruptions are inevitable, whether resulting from natural disasters, technical failures, worker strikes, or other unforeseen incidents. What can supply chain managers do to ensure that action is taken quickly and efficiently when disruption strikes? Identify Risks in Your Supply Chain.

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How Military Service Helped Me See Beyond Assumptions — and Embrace Differences

BlueYonder

My wingman in basic training was a gay, red-headed man from Puerto Rico who told me my Spanish needed help (which it did!). In fact, one of these “stereotypical” recruits ended up being the best man at my wedding in 2014, a decade after we met. I was, of course, wrong.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 18-22, 2013)

Talking Logistics

UPS Sets 2014 Rates. The company will offer the HighJump® Supply Chain Advantage suite to customers in the region. Canada, and Puerto Rico will increase an average net of 4.9 By now, most companies should have their transportation budgets in place for 2014. Robinson Enters Switzerland Marketplace.

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Anita Arts: “A supply chain manager can no longer sit in an ivory tower

Supply Chain Movement

That has been changing rapidly, not least due to the recruitment of Arts to shape the supply chain centralisation process. Anita Arts, vice president of global supply chain at Liberty Global (UPC). ‘A A supply chain manager can no longer sit in an ivory tower’. By Caroline Linssen.

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Former Teva Pharmaceutical Procurement Leader Joins Synovos

Synovos

3, 2019 – Thomas Cummins, former Global Head of Manufacturing Goods and Services Procurement for Teva Pharmaceuticals, has been named Senior Direct of Global Procurement for Synovos, the leading independent integrated supply chain management company in North America. in Whitehouse Station, NJ, before moving to Teva in 2014.