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From Globalization to Glocalization

Enterra Insights

Some call the new era “localization” or “glocalization.” ” Some people, including me, prefer the term “regionalization.” ” I started writing about the movement towards regionalization back in 2008. But as the costs of transportation increase, the length of supply lines is beginning to decrease.

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Achieving Healthcare Transformation, Powered by Supply Chain

ivalua

While it is a difficult time, you have to also applaud the heroic efforts of this industry as a whole. Unfortunately, it just got worse. Shift towards self-contracting and self-distribution: With health systems gaining significant scale and wanting more control over their supply chain, this shift is accelerating.

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What Caused the Baby Formula Shortage + 7 Ways Consumers and Companies are Coping

ToolsGroup

When it comes to defining “the essentials,” few products are as vital as baby formula. In the face of baby formula shortages, parents who depend on it are currently facing challenges full of anger, frustration, and tears. In total, approximately 40% of retailers in the United States are out of stock as of mid-May.

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Retailers receiving inventories any which way they can

Cathy Roberson

Despite supply chain costs increasing and available capacity almost a rarity, retailers are undertaking a variety of ways to make sure they receive their inventory in time for the ever-important holiday season. “We have seen real lumpiness in the global supply chain that has led to some shortages and more so just unevenness.

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America Adapting to Supply Chain Chaos

Operations and Supply Chain Management

February 17, 2022, 12:01 AM EST. On the outskirts of Columbus, Ohio, where the remains of a 200-year-old canal built to connect Cleveland with Cincinnati snake around new warehouse parks, a modern tributary of the global economy widens a little more with each planeload of goods that roars down its runways. Brendan Murray.

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Examples of How Supplier Quality Management System Implementations Pay Off

GlobalTranz

As the world is more distributed and players within the supply chain in transportation, manufacturing, and distribution are varied, applying a supplier quality management system in your business may allow you to stay more strategic and collaborative. The Problem: Cequent has long used enterprise quality management.

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Freeports: The 2022 Guide

Unleashed

Freeports are big news right now. In April 2021 the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak announced the country will be establishing eight new freeports – and there are high expectations for the positive impact these will have on areas where they are located. In this 2022 guide to freeports: What is a freeport?