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Trends 2021: Megatrends, Part Two

Enterra Insights

Most analysts believe the future looks bright for renewable energy sources. This means that ever-more of our energy system can become less reliant on traditional sources such as coal, oil, and natural gas, thereby reducing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.”[3] ”[4].

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Handfield’s Supply Chain Analytics Predictions for 2014

Supply Chain View from the Field

In particular, the focal BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) represent major targets for expansion, but with them come a host of new problem that enterprises have little to no experience in dealing with in terms of logistics capabilities. As Companies Expand Globally, So Will the Level of Operational Complexity.

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Collaboration: The New Battle Cry of Supply Chain

Supply Chain Network

Take for example the BRIC nations and the impact this region has across the global economy. In fact, all of the BRIC countries are now in the top 10 economies, with Brazil at 9, Russia at 6, India at 4 and China 2nd. As a result, more companies are investing heavily in countries like China and Brazil.

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Supplier Financial Health: Don’t Wait for the Worst, Reach out and Talk!

Supply Chain View from the Field

Apple and Coca Cola are two of the major companies who this summer signed on to a White House program called SupplierPay , a voluntary program in which companies commit either to pay small suppliers faster or help them get access to lower-cost capital. This first became a major issue during the 2009 global downturn.

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Rapid Change is Driving the Automotive Industry – Part I

BlueYonder

They don’t see it as an enabler of global manufacturing and sourcing, or as a way of increasing customer loyalty through great service. I think selecting the right markets is a big issue for automotive logistics – where should your manufacturing be based, where should your sourcing be done? For them it’s just a cost. Good question.

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FMCG Manufacturing, Sourcing and the Ukraine-Russia Unrest

Enchange Supply Chain Consultancy

As part of the BRIC countries Russia is important in driving the growth aspirations of many of the world’s largest FMCG companies. Most of the large companies have developed pan-European sourcing strategies and gone are the days when each individual region or even country had its own small “local for local” factory operations.

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Three Reasons Why I Love Hadoop, and You Should Too!

Supply Chain Shaman

Hadoop is an open-source software framework written in Java for distributed storage and processing of large data sets on computer clusters. I base this belief on interviews with companies testing the architecture for planning and IOT approaches.). As a result, companies closed manufacturing facilities. The data is not moved. (In