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5 Tips to Leverage Digital Tools to Deliver Tangible Sustainability Improvements

ivalua

Speakers: Arnaud Malardé, Ivalua | Hélène Vermont, Michelin Group. The amount of data associated with these initiatives can be exponential, a burden too heavy to manage manually. Where procurement technology really comes into play is helping us to manage our quantitative objectives. Procurement Leaders Webinar.

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Supply Chain Leaders Prepare For The Long Haul. Caution: It Will Be Gray.

Supply Chain Shaman

The first major polio epidemic in the United States occurred in Vermont in the summer of 1894. Supply chains were ill-prepared for the pandemic. The design of the global supply chain at the start of the pandemic assumed frictionless borders, availability of transportation resources, and supply with few constraints.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

store operations by 9 percent over the past year, slashing hundreds of millions of dollars of goods from their balance sheets and suggesting space is opening up in their jammed supply chains. They include Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Vermont and Washington state.

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What’s the Solution to Power Outage Proliferation

USC Consulting Group

In 2017, the most recent year in which complete data is available, outages totaled 3,526 nationally , according to estimates from Eaton. These included Alaska (138 minutes), the state with the lowest population density, Arizona (138 minutes), Wyoming (153 minutes), Vermont (172 minutes), and Montana (212 minutes). Back to top ?.

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Supply Chain Matters News Capsule Follow-up- February 13, 2023

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters provides readers with our news capsule update, specifically the latest updates in ongoing supply chain developments that we have highlighted in prior blogs. West Coast ports, and data related to increased adoption of robotics for North America production needs. Patience is Waning in U.S.

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Hospitals Suffer from a Lack of Market Transparency: New Evidence from a Research Project with SCWorx

NC State SCRC

Trillion industry, yet is often described by experts as a “cottage industry” due to the lack of maturity surrounding its contract management and supply chain practices. Research suggests that up to 40% of funds spent are non-value-added in nature. Healthcare in the United States of America is a USD $3.2