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Podcast: Rob O’Byrne on Digital Transformation, Sustainability, and Diversification in Sourcing

Requis

Manufacturing sites have been rationalized in terms of, “we don’t need five factories in this country, we only need three, then two, then we don’t need them at all, we’ll move them to China”. Sourcing has probably been the biggest thing over the last decade or two, coupled with that reduction in local manufacturing of course.

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The Need For Supply Chain Innovation: Why You Should Watch These Four Trends ?

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Source: US Census Bureau. But Asia will continue to grow as a manufacturing base and consumer market. Data received through a broad range of feeds computed with the help of powerful analytical tools and recommendation engines is a prerequisite to manage large-scale supply networks in a disrupted and volatile environment.

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KPI Key Performance Indicators in Supply Chain & Logistics

Logistics Bureau

Purchasing and supplier management. Production/manufacturing. There is really nothing wrong with capturing a lot of metrics, especially with today’s powerful analytics software solutions to help. Later in this article we’ll look at some examples of functional and cross functional KPIs. Inventory management. Warehousing.

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