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Amazon CEO’s Latest Letter to Shareholders Outlines Unfolding Strategy

Supply Chain Matters

fulfillment network, including organization and inventory management strategy. Last year, we started rearchitecting our inventory placement strategy and leveraging our larger fulfillment center footprint to move from a national fulfillment network to a regionalized network model.

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The Top 6 Trends in Logistics Impacting Shippers in 2017

GlobalTranz

Meanwhile, Brazil, Russia and India will become major suppliers as companies access the remaining untapped resources of the world. Amazon understands the value of an easy-to-use reverse logistics strategy. New markets are emerging in the global economy daily. Autonomous Trucks Will Drive Logistics Forward.

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Panama Canal Drought: Lower Water Levels, Higher Supply Chain Risk

Resilinc

Restrictions in the Panama Canal have affected over 170 countries and virtually every good: soybeans and liquified natural gas from the United States, copper and fresh cherries from Chile, and beef from Brazil. Another lever that supply chain managers need to consider is how, when, and where they deploy inventory.

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The Pros and Cons: International and Domestic Sourcing

Unleashed

Low-cost country sourcing is a procurement strategy that falls under a broad category of procurement efforts called global sourcing. The aim of a low-cost country sourcing strategy is to minimise capital investment and maximise profits, with all other costs being equal. control processes. Sourcing domestically.

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Life Sciences: What’s Changed Post-Pandemic?

QAD

adopted similar regulations prior to COVID-19 around unique device identification (UDI), and many other countries are now accelerating deadlines, including China, India, Canada, Brazil and others with the ultimate goal of improving patient safety. But COVID-19 paved the way for greater use of digital technologies.

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How Product Teams Contribute to New Product Introduction (NPI) Success

Arena Solutions

The supply chain strategy—are you consigned, turnkey, hybrid, or ”appliance” manufacturing? Production strategy: Will you build-to-order or build-to-forecast? Sales regions—there are different considerations if you’re selling domestically than there are if you’d like to expand your customer base to Europe, China, India or Brazil).

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Supply Chain Secrets Going Global – But Where Should we Share Them?

Logistics Bureau

The seminars will cover basic supply chain management, and more advanced elements such as strategy, outsourcing, cost to serve, benchmarking, and so on.”. Supply chain strategy development and alignment. Inventory management and optimisation. Brazil – Sao Paulo. Rob O’Byrne, Founder, Supply Chain Secrets.