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Global PMI Levels in August Remain Sluggish

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights perspectives and added insights on reported August 2023 global and regional production and supply chain PMI indices. From our lens, the August data further reflects ongoing shifts in production sourcing within specific industry sectors. in August compared to 57.7

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Crafting a Procurement Management Plan to Mitigate the Impacts of Inflation

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in the Czech Republic. Escalating expenses associated with rising prices of raw materials, finished goods, third-party services, and labor along the entire supply chain expose businesses to a heightened threat of margin reduction. The inflation rate can vary greatly by location — for instance, in 2023 it was 3.4%

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3rd CEE Procurement & Supply Forum

Supply Chain Movement

3rd CEE Procurement & Supply Forum. Venue: Prague, Czech Republic. Global sourcing and sourcing in Central-Eastern Europe (CEE) has long been state of the art for international companies. Date: 19 October, 2016. Organisation: BME Verband. URL: www.bme.de/en/all-events/cee/. en/all-events/cee/.

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Bristlecone Flash – September 2019

Bristlecone

Pulse attendees witnessed the supply chain of the future come alive on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ferrara Candy, Best Supply Chain Transformation. TRUSTED PARTNER IN SUPPLY CHAIN TRANSFORMATION. BRISTLECONE PULSE AT MIT 2019 – IT’S A WRAP! The winners are …. Our Customers. Register Now.

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Anita Arts: “A supply chain manager can no longer sit in an ivory tower

Supply Chain Movement

That has been changing rapidly, not least due to the recruitment of Arts to shape the supply chain centralisation process. Anita Arts, vice president of global supply chain at Liberty Global (UPC). ‘A A supply chain manager can no longer sit in an ivory tower’. By Caroline Linssen.

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SCM World 2014 Chief Supply Chain Officer Report: A Conversation with Kevin O’Marah – Part IV

BlueYonder

In September, SCM World released its annual Chief Supply Chain Officer Report based on its survey of over 1,000 supply chain executives across all industries and geographies. Supply Chain Nation sat down with Kevin O’Marah, Chief Content Officer for SCM World, to discuss four key findings of the study.

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How Pure Storage Withstood the Pandemic

Logistics Viewpoints

Demand uncertainty does make it much more difficult for a supply chain to respond to customers’ orders. Prior to that he had worked in the storage industry as a director of supply chain at EMC. In many ways, Mr. Fitzgerald said, “it was still a startup supply chain when I joined.”