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Supply Chain Cost Reduction: The Dangers of Supplier Squeezing

Logistics Bureau

I’m not for one moment suggesting that you shouldn’t address your company’s suppliers as an approach to supply chain cost reduction. I’m not even suggesting that you shouldn’t be prepared, when necessary, to negotiate aggressively. Supplier Squeezing in the Headlines.

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9 Steps to Establish the Lean Supply Chain: A System of Interconnected & Interdependent Partners

GlobalTranz

Top management knows that lean can add value , but many still haven’t moved past the initial education stage into full-scale lean supply chain implementation. One reason may be that they haven’t made the paradigm shift as to how to implement lean. Eliminate All Waste in the Supply Chain So That Only Value Remains.

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Logistics Bureau Supply Chain and Logistics News Roundup, July 2022

Logistics Bureau

As part of our ongoing commitment to keep our blog readers updated on what’s happening in the supply chain and logistics world, we’re launching a regular industry news roundup, which we’ll release periodically. Increased near-shoring in Mexico and elsewhere as companies seek shorter supply chains.

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Lean initiatives and the Supply Chain

The Lean Supply Chain

Cost Reduction Options: Top Managementknows that lean can add value, but many still haven’t moved past the initial education stage into full-scale lean supply chain implementation. One reason may be that they haven’t made the paradigm shift as to how to implement lean. This sets the supply chain pace.

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Why the Outlook for the Oil and Gas Market is Brighter than You Think

Requis

How supply chain has changed over the years. How Requis is perfectly positioned to be the supply chain platform of choice for many industries. Earlier, in March, oil prices had already reached their lowest point since 1998. Long term, oil and gas supply chains will become much more agile.

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Handfield’s Top Supply Chain Predictions for 2016

NC State SCRC

If there’s anything we’ve learned in the last year, it’s that prediction is not only much more complicated than it looks, and that the volatility and uncertainty that exists in the global supply chain operating environment is making life a whole lot LESS unpredictable.