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Developing Agile Procurement Strategies: Thriving Amid Global Trade Disruptions

Logistics Viewpoints

Companies leaning heavily on global sourcing? Theyre feeling the heat most, as sudden trade policy curveballs throw procurement plans into chaos. manufacturer I know saw their import costs jump overnight, forcing a rethink of a decade-old sourcing strategy. What Is Agile Procurement?

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How Can You Improve Value in Your Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Shaman

For example, if I improve the cost structure in transportation, procurement, manufacturing and sales independently, what decision support framework decides the right trade-offs? The Y chart service harmonizes the data across different public markets, currencies, M&A, and restatements. You are right. This work was expensive.

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Reflection: The Journey to be Market Driven

Supply Chain Shaman

were down 7 percent in constant currency. Traditionally, companies focus on the use of enterprise data — orders and shipments, which usually has a two- to four-week demand latency (the time from channel purchase to order receipt) and a 2-to 3-month market latency (the time from the market trigger to the translation into an order).

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What food and beverage companies need to know about tariffs: Lessons from Canada

Kinaxis

Since January, Canadians’ weekly grocery trips have become a real-time indicator for the potential impacts of tariffs as shoppers have responded to threats with a showcase of buying power, prioritizing nationally sourced and manufactured products even before a single tariff was enacted. goods were “ rapidly dropping.”

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How Inventory Management Rescues Supply Chains From Inflation

Clear Spider

Now’s the time for businesses to look back at the strain that rising inflation put on their supply chains and inventory management. In this blog, we’ll explain the impact of rising inflation rates on inventory and supply chain management. As prices continued to rise, purchasing power plummeted.

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The New Procurement Reality: Thriving Amid Policy Shifts, Logistics Gaps & Demand Swings

Jaggaer

Supply chain management typically does not fit very well with procurement, which is a challenge at the best of times, and can be a disaster in difficult times. But with wild fluctuations in prices, currency conversion rates, lead times and so on, IT systems have had difficulty coping in recent years.

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5 Inventory Management Tips for Manufacturing SMBs!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Featuring Our 10 Best Inventory Management Articles! Manufacturing SMBs article and permission to publish here provided by Alina Akk. Inventory management is a holistic and logical methodology for handling both raw materials and finished products. You can’t manufacture shiny new goods without raw materials, after all.