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Unleashed SME Supply Chain Resilience Roundtable: Improving Cash Flow in a Manufacturing Business

Unleashed

Product businesses are holding more stock than ever before, creating new cash flow problems for manufacturers. Tim Wright: Founder of two medical equipment manufacturing companies and currently MD of Langcroft Consultancy – specialists in digital transformation. Review how you manufacture things,” Tim says.

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Supply Chain Leadership Driving Industry 4.0 & Resilience During Crisis – LogiSYM July 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Lockdown of cities and manufacturing plants have significantly impacted many industries’ supply chains. This can be applied to inventory management, fleet and order tracking, ID badging. This helps improve order management and accuracy, shorten estimated transit times (ETAs) and minimise out-of-stock situations.

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Supply Chain Management in a VUCA World

Enterra Insights

For years the military has used the acronym VUCA to describe what, in wartime, is often referred to as the fog of war. Back in 2011, supply chain analyst Trevor Miles ( @milesahead ) noted there is a similar sounding word supply chain managers should associate with VUCA. Wake up to the new reality that VUCA is a new norm.”[1]

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Trade Gecko Sunset: 9 Risks, Tips & Insights from the Experts

Unleashed

Whether you’ve done anything about it yet is another story… We spoke to two software implementation experts – one based in the UK, the other in South Africa – about how late is too late to make the change to new software, and what TG-based businesses should think about now ahead of the dreaded sunset date. We tend not to do it.

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26 logistics professionals reveal the biggest trends in logistics technology

6 River Systems

“Data science can bring great gains for…” Logistics efforts of retailers and manufacturers. Companies can accurately forecast demand, timely order raw materials and manage inventory more efficiently. Big data analytics is promising too: it enables predictive maintenance for better fleet management. .