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Weaponization of the Periodic Table Crimps U.S. Critical Minerals Supply Chains

Exiger Perspectives

Even when sourcing from countries like Belgium, Germany, and Japan, there is often upstream exposure to China. Vulnerability mitigations Stockpile critical components and consolidate procurement across programs to ensure availability during disruptions. imports over 50% of its antimony, gallium, and germanium needs.

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Outage Raises Potential Medical Isotope Shortage

Exiger Perspectives

Global production of Mo-99 occurs at six major research reactors : HFR (Netherlands), BR-2 (Belgium), LVR-15 (Czech Republic), MARIA (Poland), OPAL (Australia), and SAFARI-1 (South Africa). and Belgium-based National Institute for Radioelements — source Mo-99 from the HFR Reactor.

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Air Cargo Market's VAS - Last-Mile Delivery

Cathy Roberson

Belgium’s Liege Airport has also become an e-commerce hub due to Chinese logistics provider and subsidiary of Alibaba, Cainiao, picking it as its European hub. “This comes on top of expansion based on our recently announced partnerships with Royal Mail Group and Chicago Rockford Airport in the US,” La Roux said.

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Best Practice Guide to Invoice to Pay

ivalua

Invoice to Pay sits at the end of a Procurement process that starts with a need, moves through selecting and contracting with a supplier and ends with delivery of goods or services. . At each step of this Procurement process, data is gathered, suppliers are onboarded, and deliveries are accepted.

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Barry Callebaut integrates S&OP into the daily process

Supply Chain Movement

“Involvement of the C-level is an important step in successfully integrating sales & operations planning into day-to-day business processes,” says Tom Declercq, supply chain director of Western Europe at Barry Callebaut, during his presentation at the Supply Chain Innovations event in Lint, Belgium, on 27 March. With a sales volume of 1.5

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Optimizing Liberty Global’s Supply Chain: An Interview with Willem Vesters

AIMMS

Visibility into the Network side of the business was limited to the company’s engineering and procurement department. We brought end users from the UK, Belgium, Switzerland, and so on. So we were struggling with the fact that we had a part of our business under control, but another one that was almost completely out of our grip.

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5 Ways Businesses Are Uncovering Success With AI In Manufacturing

ToolsGroup

Keyence, a company based in Belgium, specializes in the design and supply of machine vision systems for automated inspection in different manufacturing facilities. Computer Vision. Computer vision is an integral part of an AI system and assists manufacturers in conducting a quality inspection of finished products.