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Introducing QAD Adaptive ERP 2023 and Enhancements for QAD Adaptive Applications

QAD

QAD EQMS (Enterprise Quality Management System) has made document collaboration easier by allowing collaboration in the draft state within Google Workspace. The benefit is a robust collaboration tool for developing new documents or changing documents.

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Malaysia offers sourcing opportunities but with ESG concerns

Resilinc

One exporter, Top Glove , was found by CBP to be subjecting employees to “debt bondage, excessive overtime, abusive working and living conditions, as well as the retention of identity documents.”

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Prediction- Added Labor Activism Among Industry Supply Chains

Supply Chain Matters

The Japan based labor union representing production workers at Toyota Motor are reportedly seeking the equivalent of a 7.6 Reportedly the labor union is seeking a target of upwards of a 5 percent increase in annual wage rates for workers across Japan. The UAW has further indicated active actions targeting Tesla’ s U.S.

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Added Evidence of Emerging Regionalization of Global Supply Networks

Supply Chain Matters

The abstract notes that the research paper “ documents that shifts in the pattern of U.S. and Japan based companies such as Dell, HP and Sony are leading the charge toward alternative sourcing options. The authors were Laura Alfaro, Harvard Business School, CEPR and NBER , and Davin Chor, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and NBER.

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Report That Samsung is Eyeing Massive Semiconductor Production Presence in the U.S.

Supply Chain Matters

This report indicates that move would reportedly amount to a nearly $200 billion investment, according to documents filed with the State of Texas. If consummated, this longer-term investment would be unprecedented from a geo-political supply network dimension. Increased tensions among China and the U.S., has to do so as well.

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5 New Year’s Resolutions for Supply Chain & Logistics Executives

Talking Logistics

Natural disasters like the Japan earthquake, product shortages due to quality issues, the impact of currency rates on product costs and demand, and disruptions caused by IT service failures or security breaches are just a few examples of the risks supply chain executives face every day. Ask “What are the risks?”more more often.

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50 expert tips on supply chain management

6 River Systems

When Toyota pioneered lean production in Japan back in the 1970s, its suppliers facilitated this by being colocated nearby. If you haven’t developed any KPIs or monitoring processes, start thinking through what measures define success or failure, and how Procurement can go about confirming a supplier stays on track.