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Improving Sustainability Within Your Supply Chain

Synovos

Improving Sustainability Within Your Supply Chain You don’t have to do it all alone, says a senior director of procurement. It therefore makes good business sense for any company that wants to be around in the medium and long term to adapt and lean in to robust ESG practices. There is still a long way to go on the ESG journey, though.

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TMS Delivers on NASSTRAC’s Five Common Sense Suggestions for Shippers

Supply Chain Collaborator

Lean inventory control, just-in-time manufacturing and real-time shipment tracking have become the new standard in many industries and that means that transportation is a much more critically important stakeholder in success than before. Step 3 – Give transportation a seat at the “adult table”. Step 4 – Adopt 21 st century technology.

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Supply Chain 2030: Forge a New Path

Supply Chain Shaman

The Supply Chain Insights Global Summit is over, but we hope the energy to define Supply Chain 2030 is just beginning. As companies prepare for Supply Chain 2030, we think that it is time to rethink the basics. As companies prepare for Supply Chain 2030, we think that it is time to rethink the basics. What does it take?

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No Easter Bunny?

Supply Chain Shaman

The traditional supply chain is inside-out, triggering processes on the back of order-to-cash and procure-to-pay financial processes. High-velocity or streaming data requires different architectures built on non-relational, cloud-based architectures using open source tools like Apache Spark. source Moody’s). Barrier #1.

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Will the Circular Economy Ever Go Mainstream?

Enterra Insights

Former McKinsey analyst Markus Zils adds, “The circular economy aims to eradicate waste — not just from manufacturing processes, as lean management aspires to do, but systematically, throughout the life cycles and uses of products and their components. Procurement. ” Supply Chain Elements of a Circular Economy. ” Element 2.

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How Australian manufacturers can achieve the net-zero deadline

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Most manufacturing companies are working on what a low carbon future means for their business with the urgency to cut global CO2 emissions in half by 2030 and strive for a net-zero by 2050. The traditional way toward a more sustainable supply chain has been through procurement. The pressure to confront climate change.

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Supply Chain Optimization Software – A Comprehensive Guide for Manufacturers

ThroughPut

At any point in time, an optimized supply chain stays lean, manages costs and most importantly, responds instantaneously to even minor fluctuations in demand. They also get the ability to do a comparison and quickly reconfigure the essential material needed to procure from various suppliers. Inventory control. Order management.