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Safeguarding Your Supply Chain: Proven Strategies to Mitigate Risk and Maximize Agility

SCMDOJO

Everyonefrom procurement to customer serviceshould know their role during a crisis. The same is true if you are based in Florida, Delaware, Michigan, or anywhere else. Create a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) that maps out step-by-step protocols to keep operations moving when disruption hits. Keep external partners in the loop.

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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

Logistics Viewpoints

Cooper is also home to a leading cancer center (MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper), the only Level II pediatric trauma center in the Delaware Valley (Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper), three urgent care centers, and more than 100 outpatient offices from Southeastern Pennsylvania to the Jersey Shore.

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Industry 4.0: Driven by 5G and Cognitive Technologies

Enterra Insights

From procurement to distribution, 5G will mean manufacturers can connect more sensors, devices and assets through a single network giving them better visibility into the supply chain. This technology is rated ahead of other innovations like the Internet of Things (31%) and blockchain (24%).”[4]

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Sustainable Forestry: Can We Get It Right?

EcoVadis

Deforestation for palm oil plantations in Indonesia averages to about 300,000 hectares (about half the size of Delaware) each year. Soybean and palm oil cultivation along with timber production and cattle rearing are major contributors to deforestation; and these economic commodities have been getting a lot of attention recently.