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2021 Supply Chain Challenges: The Top 5 Lessons Learned + Tips from 11 Industry Experts

ToolsGroup

Amongst the issues faced by both businesses and consumers in 2021, supply chain shortages – and the resulting challenges – held strong in the headlines throughout the year. Five Lessons Learned Overcoming 2021’s Supply Chain Challenges. Five Lessons Learned Overcoming 2021’s Supply Chain Challenges.

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Critical Supply Chain Planning Capabilities Needed to Survive the COVID-19 Pandemic and Future Supply Chain Disruptions

Logility

Looking back a few months, no one could have predicted the current state of the global supply chain. Although maybe we should have been better prepared, after-all this is not the first major supply chain disruption faced by most companies. Yes, every disruption tends to challenge the supply chain in different ways.

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Another Way to Think About Supply Chain Risk Management

ToolsGroup

In the era of the global supply chain, many companies think about risk management in terms of “ macro agility ”—their ability to anticipate the likelihood of, and develop readiness plans for, major crises that impact the chain, like geopolitical instability and extreme weather.

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Step Five: Stage Five Supply Chain Planning System of Record (SCP SOR)

Kinaxis

As you can probably guess, this is the last step in reaching Stage Five for your Supply Chain Planning System of Record (SCP SOR). Data scientists are the new generation of supply chain planners. Supply chain is a risky business! Risk management is being seen as a strategic imperative in supply chain.

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Passion for supply chain management given industry recognition

Kinaxis

by Melissa Clow Frequent Kinaxis blogger Madhav Durbha was recently honored as a Supply & Demand Chain Executive ‘ Pro to know ’. Madhav’s experience and educational background show his passion and enthusiasm for supply chain and the role it plays in making the world a better place. Check out his responses.

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Building Recession-beating Supply Chain Resilience & Agility

Unleashed

Confronted with a pandemic, we’ve seen global supply chains struggle to cope with the consequences of isolation and work-from-home orders. In many industries, demand has dropped off substantially or moved online. How to build resilient supply chains. Japan manufacturing PMI fell to 44.8 down from 51.7

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Women in Supply Chain – The Future is Female

DynaSys

And why specifically is there such a lack of women in supply chain fields? Gender parity is increasing steadily in most countries, yet in countries such as Japan, only one in every five doctors is female. While medical professions and careers within supply chain fields may seem dramatically different, their root is the same.