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Different Strokes for Different Folks (to Yield Better Results?)?

Supply Chain Shaman

The translation of demand in traditional advanced planning systems determines safety stock, but there is a greater opportunity for pharmaceutical companies with an inventory turn level of two, and great demand and supply uncertainty, to determine inventory strategies including buffers, push-pull decoupling points, and postponement.

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Logistics Service Providers (LSP): 3PL vs 4PL vs 5PL

SCMDOJO

We’ll delve into the realm of LSPs in this blog, examine their various categories, and compare the benefits and drawbacks of the most popular kinds. LSPs generally endow tremendous inventory management and warehousing solutions, conveyance of orders and international logistics.

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How the Coronavirus is underscoring the relevance of Global Supply Chain throughput: From the Frontlines of Yokohama, Milan, and Southern Florida

ThroughPut

Coronavirus has led to a new reason for societal division and discrimination, in order to preserve what nations value most: the trillions of dollars of wealth tied up in their supply chains, which until now, have all been enabled by the operations people taking risks to maintain uptime, quality, and inventory deliveries.

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The Supply Chain Impacts of the Russian Attack on the Ukraine

NC State SCRC

The impact of the Russian attack will lead to even further supply chain problems, beyond the ones that we have discussed in this blog to date. Shipping from Ukrainian ports, an important corridor for grain, metal and Russian oil shipments to the rest of the world, has all but ceased. But that doesn’t mean we aren’t impacted.

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