QAD

JULY 7, 2022

In Bangladesh in July 2021, a fire at a food factory claimed the lives of at least 52 people, some of whom were children. Consumers are increasingly expressing interest in ethical sourcing and environmental impacts related to the products they purchase. found that consumers would stop purchasing brands with ethics issues.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JULY 3, 2019

Sustainability is created in the textile factories of Bangladesh. As we’ve learned from Kotter’s 8 Step Change Model (hyperlink), utilized as a framework to implement and achieve organizational change, the first 2 steps to create change boil down to one thing: People. Sustainability is created in the mining pits in the Nordics.

Sourcing Strategies 58

Sourcing Strategies Purchasing Skills Sourcing Sustainability 58

EMERGE App

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

At the end of this blog post, we hope that you appreciate the steps, twists and turns that are involved in importing goods from abroad. For example, China for just about everything that can be made, Vietnam for clothing and shoes, and Bangladesh for garments. Their business model, after all, is the buying and selling of goods.

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EMERGE App

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

At the end of this blog post, we hope that you appreciate the steps, twists and turns that are involved in importing goods from abroad. For example, China for just about everything that can be made, Vietnam for clothing and shoes, and Bangladesh for garments. Their business model, after all, is the buying and selling of goods.

Purchasing Skills 40

Purchasing Skills Negotiate Pricing Negotiating Skills Manufacturing Procurement 40

EMERGE App

JULY 16, 2018

Best of all, rather than bore you with a dry report and statistics on creating private label products for Amazon FBA, I will weave everything around a completely fictitious example, which might very well work for you in real life! Your website and Amazon FBA are just tools for your business. First, she had to buy some samples.

Manufacturing Procurement 71

Manufacturing Procurement Purchasing Skills Just-in-Time Modeling Software 71

NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 28, 2015

As people conduct more and more transactions electronically, whether it’s consumers on Amazon or organizational buyers on Ariba, Coupa, or other P2P solutions, the relational component of supply chains seems to be going down. Prediction 1 – Supply Chain Analytics Will Become More Predictive (Not Backward Looking).

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Predictive Analytics Software Predictive Analytics Supply Chain Design Software Supply Chain Planning Software 40

Freightera

APRIL 17, 2020

I couldn’t resist bringing some of this conversation to the Freightera blog and Juvarya Veltkamp kindly accepted my invitation for this post-debate interview. JV: I am not in the medical field, but they must be using AI and predictive analytics to determine the spread and the medical response. ZB: Do you have a goal, Juvarya?

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