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

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Innovation and supplier management calls for cloud-based integrated systems between partners and advanced predictive models. Can Eksoz is Senior Lecturer in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at Muscat University, and Visiting Lecturer at Aston University. Decision Making. Can is accessible via ceksoz@muscatuniversity.edu.om.

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Top Considerations Around Reshoring in Today’s Supply Chain

QAD

Benefits such as low-cost labor, raw materials, cheap transportation, favorable regulations and proximity to suppliers were too good to pass up. India, Africa, Vietnam and Mexico also offer low-cost labor, but supply chains there must also be managed ethically and take time to build.

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Top 20 Verified Supply Chain Experts You Can Hire

SCMDOJO

Expertise: Sourcing, Supply Chain Analysis, Logistics & Transportation, Logistics Management Consulting, Freight (Maritime, Land, or Air), Logistics Technology Solutions. He graduated from the Cambridge Academy of Transport and the Chilean and German Commerce Institute with a degree in maritime transport, respectively.

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2024 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains- Prediction Two

Supply Chain Matters

Because of the re-routing of containers ships having to traverse the Cape of Good Hope and Africa to reach either Europe or Asia destinations, container spot rates were soaring. Supply management strategies will therefore have to consider needs for added transportation or sourcing agility efforts to buffer the impacts.

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Supply Chain Management in a VUCA World

Enterra Insights

Back in 2011, supply chain analyst Trevor Miles ( @milesahead ) noted there is a similar sounding word supply chain managers should associate with VUCA. He explains, “I almost feel that we should be shouting ‘Vuka’ which in Xhosa (one of the South Africa languages) means ‘wake up.’ Wake up to the new reality that VUCA is a new norm.”[1]

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KPI Key Performance Indicators in Supply Chain & Logistics

Logistics Bureau

Inventory management. Purchasing and supplier management. Transportation. Later in this article we’ll look at some examples of functional and cross functional KPIs. Broadly speaking though, the following areas are those where KPIs will be necessary: Order capture. Production/manufacturing. Warehousing.

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