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Prepare for Anything: Supply Chain and Ecosystem Predictions for 2022 and beyond….

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

As we look forward to 2022 and beyond, the overall guidance must be “prepare for anything.” Recent cumulative events have increased the emphasis on the supply chain, emphasizing its importance and bringing it to the fore. As was quoted, “no one mentions the supply chain when it works, but when it fails….”

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Is 2022 the Year Automation Takes Off?

Enterra Insights

Lockdowns, lockouts, and labor shortages have all played a role in motivating business leaders to look more closely at automation, digitalization, and artificial intelligence (AI). Are Digitization and Automation Necessary? But he asks a great question: “Is automation truly required for successful digital transformation?”

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Driving Sustainable Supply Chain Change

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Driving Sustainable Supply Chain Change. By 2025, to improve long-term supply chain profitability, 60% of manufacturers in global supply chains will invest in software tools to support sustainability and circular economy business models.”. “By In Asia, Governmental and Finance.

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2022 Forecast: Supply Chains Become Critical Infrastructure

ToolsGroup

Let’s kick off 2022 with a little thought experiment… What’s a problem affecting every nation on earth? The problem I’m describing is the urgent need to build a robust, global, end-to-end supply chain infrastructure. The problem I’m describing is the urgent need to build a robust, global, end-to-end supply chain infrastructure.

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Essential Technology Capabilities for Supply Chain in 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

Over the past few years, supply chain and procurement pros have faced the challenge of navigating their enterprises through one disruption after another. Demands of quickly securing alternative sources of supply due to market changes, supply shortages and disruptions. Upcoming Recession?

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Trends 2022: Quantum Computing

Enterra Insights

This may be a reaction to the ongoing supply chain crisis, which quantum could help relieve through its potential to solve complex optimization problems common in shipping and logistics.” Sharma reports, “Governments worldwide have resourced more than US$25 Billion to quantum research and development.

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Supply Chain Normalcy? Think Again.

Supply Chain Shaman

The global supply chain is built on three assumptions: rational government policy, availability of reasonably priced logistics, and low variability. In March 2023, the Global Supply Chain Pressure Index fell to the lowest level since November 2008. Over the past three years, supply chain cycles shifted.