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Baltimore Bridge Collapse: An Opportunity to Reinforce the Importance of Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply chain resilience is a hot topic the last few years since post-Covid issues and newsworthy incidents like the Houthi attacks in the red sea have raised awareness. The bridge collapse is a stark reminder of the vulnerability of the nation’s aging infrastructure and the importance of supply chain resilience.

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A New Red Wagon?

Supply Chain Shaman

I grew up in the mountains of West Virginia. There are seismic shifts occurring between industries in value chains. There are seismic shifts occurring between industries in value chains. Last week, I spent time with large chemical companies engrossed in this discussion. Acquisitions drove DOW Chemical’s wide swings.

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Digitized Procurement: Your Setting-off Point to Autonomy

Jaggaer

They will have succeeded in transforming their procurement organizations to leverage artificial intelligence-based technologies to achieve autonomous procurement. Automated Procurement. All processes automated. Sourcing automation. Contract compliance automation. Requisition automation. Cognitive Automation.

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Why Can’t The Supply Chain Get Rid of Abuse?

Material Handling & Logistics

Let’s stop buying products where labor abuse exists in the supply chain. In January of this year, another Apple supplier, Catcher Technology Co., In the mineral supply chain, particularly in mining gold, children have been injured and killed in mining accidents in smaller scale mines in China, Mali, Tanzania and the Philippines.

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Can Australian Manufacturing be Brought Back Home from China?

Logistics Bureau

With the significant disruption to Australia’s supply chains caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the question now focusing the minds of supply chain managers is whether production outsourced to China can be brought back onshore—and if so at what cost. Wealth of Professional Talent. Environmental/Regulatory Issues.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 18-22, 2013)

Talking Logistics

As I highlighted in my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2013 , tablets and smartphones are quickly becoming the preferred computing platform for business professionals, which is why technology providers are designing and optimizing their applications for these devices.

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Doing Business in Portugal

QAD

state of Virginia. It also manufactures wood and cork products, paper and pulp, chemicals, fuels, lubricants, automobiles and parts, base metals, minerals, porcelain and ceramics, glassware, technology and telecommunications equipment, dairy products, wine, ships, plastics and optics. . Manufacturing in Portugal.