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The Dangers of Single Sourcing in Your Supply Chain

Resilinc

Avoid the pitfalls of single sourcing and learn strategies to build a more resilient supply chain. Yet, within the pursuit of efficiency lies a lurking peril: single sourcing. The pandemic was a wake-up call to the dangers of single sourcing. What is single sourcing and sole sourcing?

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The Benefits of Onshore Supply Chains

ivalua

While companies have capitalized on globalization over the last few decades, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed a number of weaknesses within supply chain and procurement industries. Overall, while relocating may be an investment at first, many procurement leaders agree that the benefits of having a supply chain closer to home are worth it.

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Now or Never: Why Supply Chain Sustainability is Non-Negotiable in 2022

Locus

Source: Statista.com. Hurricane Ida struck the Gulf of Mexico in August 2021, destroying industrial installations for pharmaceuticals and plastics. Planning : Processes are designed to reduce emissions and meet demand with ethical sourcing. Ethical sourcing of goods. parts per million. Download Now!

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Like the Mississippi River Through New Orleans, Today’s CPG Market is Quickly Changing Directions

QAD

through New Orleans and out into the Gulf of Mexico. Manufacturers of food, beverage and consumer products are facing challenging times, changing consumers and the need to deliver new products to the marketplace faster than ever before. This can also describe the status of today’s consumer packaged goods (CPG) market.

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Delivery is the Product: Takeaways from Transplace’s Shipper Symposium 2018

Talking Logistics

During one of the breakout sessions, Ken Rogers, National Transportation Director at Nestle Waters, along with Mike Dieter (CTO at Transplace), Robert Hatty (GM,Operations, Transportation Management at Transplace), and Chu-Chi Ng (Technical Manager, IT at Transplace) provided a demo of the Control Tower solution.

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The Transformation of Supply Chain Management – IoT, AI, & Blockchain

Oracle SCM

When IoT is specialized for industrial application such as manufacturing, it is also known as Industry 4.0 IoT has massive implications for supply chain management, including manufacturing, inventory management, and logistics. You will see real life demos of: IoT : Smart Connected Factory. What Does IoT Do For Supply Chain?

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Is Warehouse Robotics at the Inflection Point?

Locus Robotics

We recently conducted a Locus demo and presentation for 30 supply chain executives with a very large global brand. With e-Commerce sales approaching and soon surpassing 10% of total retail sales and growing, how and where purchases get made are forever changed. Online purchases will only become more a part of everyday life.