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Navigating the Impact of Global Tariffs on Your Supply Chain

ModusLink Corporation

Find alternate supply sources for the material and goods that are outside the affected tariffs. Disruptions in Sourcing and Delivery: Tariffs Cause Delays Beyond cost increases, tariffs can also disrupt the timing of shipments and deliveries. Pass the cost on to customers, which can affect pricing strategies and customer loyalty.

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Best Supply Chain Management Software For Enterprises in 2025

ThroughPut

This one figure speaks volumes about how organizations worldwide want access to the best supply chain management tools to boost efficiency and value in their distribution and logistics network. It can integrate different proprietary analytical techniques and technologies to help offer the right answers at the right time.

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Creating a Supply Chain Fault-Tolerant Decision Making Environment Using Generative Agents

NC State SCRC

Introduction: The Challenge of Fault Tolerance in Decision-Making Most results of Generative Agents are not transparent, so it is difficult to determine if the results infringe upon copyrights/intellectual property rights or if the original source(s) of the datasets that the agent is trained upon are faulty for the purpose that they are being used.

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The Forecasting Accuracy Bugaboo

Logistics Viewpoints

Some suppliers of demand management software can also provide excellent forecast benchmarking for selected industries. Demand forecasts are improved with access to downstream data (point of sale, Nielsen retail data, and access to competitor promotion schedules). forecasting product sales at 10,000 stores.

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Market Beat. Four Thumbs Down and One Thumb Up.

Supply Chain Shaman

Globally ten percent of jobs are in manufacturing, while 37% are associated with supply chain management. The discipline, first defined in 1982, includes source, make, deliver, and planning functions. The Palantir approach is not a good fit for the supply chain management market. The supply chain career is new.

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Achieving Significant Transportation Savings through Improved Demand Forecasting

Logistics Viewpoints

When companies implement a demand management or replenishment system, the goal is usually to improve customer satisfaction while holding less inventory. The bulk business also involves filling the tanks of businesses that use propane as an energy source. Pinnacle Propane Delivery to a Farm.

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The Next Great Disruption Coming to Supply Chains

Kinaxis

3PL’s, Contract Manufacturing, Suppliers, Logistics providers…. Consumers used multiple devices, internet of things, etc, to check FGI (finished goods inventory) /sub-assembly and raw inventories, build plans, and sourcing options, as they are considering a purchase! This is how they’ve drawn the ZMOT challenge.