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Jeroen van Weesep: ‘Make more room for intuition and trust’

Supply Chain Movement

With factories in Denmark, Mexico, Hungary and the Czech Republic, it produces a mind-blowing 40 billion Lego bricks a year. Read the full article in Supply Chain Movement 15. The company got its financials back into the black in 2005, and last year it turned over 3.4

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Crafting a Procurement Management Plan to Mitigate the Impacts of Inflation

Precoro

in the Czech Republic. In this article, we will discuss how a robust procurement management plan can help address and mitigate the effects of inflation. Whether on a smaller or larger scale, inflation is a reality for every country. The inflation rate can vary greatly by location — for instance, in 2023 it was 3.4%

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Anita Arts: “A supply chain manager can no longer sit in an ivory tower

Supply Chain Movement

The British company is owner of Unitymedia KabelBW (Germany), UPC (The Netherlands, Republic of Ireland, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary and Romania), VTR (Chile) and Liberty (Puerto Rico). This article was first published in Supply Chain Movement Q2 – 2014. in all markets.

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Precoro's response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Precoro

In this article, we are going to address the following topics: Precoro's response to the war in Ukraine; Status of Precorians from Ukraine and their families; Business continuity measures; Aiding Ukraine. Of course, not all of the Precorians worked in our Ukrainian office.

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Blockchain’s Hype, Hopes, and Hurdles, Part 2

Enterra Insights

”[1] In Part 1 of this article, I focused on blockchain technology’s hype and hope in supply chain operations. terawatt-hours per year, which is comparable to the total energy consumption of the Czech Republic, a country of 10.6 million people.”

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The Top 10 Manufacturing Blog Posts from 2014

GlobalTranz

In this article I intend to indicate the manufacturing’s evolution through Innovation, the real Innovation in Manufacturing.There are six salient areas that organizations should work towards a Real Innovation in Manufacturing. Read Full Post. But according to this criteria, where is the future of manufacturing headed?

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Where are all the N95 Masks? A Supply Chain Dilemma

NC State SCRC

The shortage of N95 masks seems to be a big mystery, but several recent articles in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal explore the case of the missing masks. Are these numbers real and will there be enough? No one seems to know.but the fact is that starting production can’t occur overnight.