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4 Steps to Streamline Global Shipping

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For global manufacturers, managing logistics across various locations, countries and regions, as well as carriers, is no easy task. When you have multiple manufacturing locations across the world, it can feel as though your enterprise is not one organization, but a number of different companies, all using different guidelines.

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How to Thrive Amid Looming EU Medical Device and iVD Regulations

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Every medical device manufacturer selling to the European Union or hoping to has been preparing and awaiting its arrival with a combination of anticipation and dread. Failure to provide the proper compliance documentation could mean fines, litigation, product recalls, design changes, and even losing access to sizable market opportunities.

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Ten Steps for Retail Businesses to Prepare for the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF)

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The PEF’s influence extends beyond Europe, as international companies and markets often look to such benchmarks when considering their own environmental strategies. This includes impacts associated with resource extraction, manufacturing, transportation, usage, and end-of-life treatment.

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How Machine Learning Optimizes the Supply Chain

TransAudit

It simplifies administrative practices, analyzing contracts and documentation to derive the best outcomes from suppliers. Supply chain managers should ensure consistency in data provision across the supply chain and integrate supply chain management software with supplier and manufacturer systems for automatic data collection and processing.

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Managing Recalls with an Adaptive ERP

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They were produced by a popular manufacturer. The frozen vegetable manufacturer properly communicated the issue to their retailer and supplier, but what else can be done when managing recalls? In Europe, Asia-Pacific and other regions, governing health organizations have similar regulations in place. Warehousing.

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The Internet of Things in the Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

Retailers expect to be connected to manufacturers. Manufacturers expect to be connected to suppliers. ” • Barcode label : According to the ModusLink staff, “Plenty of operations happening inside the warehouse rely on administrative documentation. Consumers expect to be connected to retailers.

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Do You Know Your Suppliers? Counting the Cost of Ignorance

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Supply chain due diligence is a critical topic for manufacturers and enterprises in all industries, especially given three major impacts of recent high-profile abuse cases, new due diligence laws and consumer buying trends. . and across Europe. The concept of ethical sourcing has risen in popularity during the past four years.” .