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Do You Know Your Suppliers? Counting the Cost of Ignorance

QAD

The concept of ethical sourcing has risen in popularity during the past four years.” . 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. . United States.

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The Importance of Transparency in Supply Chains

Enterra Insights

Consumers, activists, and investors increasingly want to know the products they buy are sourced sustainably and ethically. In retail, buyers want to understand where the products they are purchasing are coming from and how they were created.” sources of raw materials. They are demanding more supply chain transparency.

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What ChemChina's Syngenta Takeover Deal Means for Agribusiness

Elementum

Worth about US $43 billion , the all-cash bid is the biggest foreign purchase made by a Chinese company and the most expensive transaction on record in the agribusiness industry. Company headquarters will stay in Switzerland, there will be no job cuts, and operational disruptions will be minimal. Syngenta’s Troubles. China’s Food Woes.

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Introducing QAD Adaptive ERP 2023 and Enhancements for QAD Adaptive Applications

QAD

QAD has bolstered our cloud offerings with new adaptive manufacturing and supply chain capabilities that enhance user productivity and support informed and intelligent decision-making. QAD EQMS (Enterprise Quality Management System) has made document collaboration easier by allowing collaboration in the draft state within Google Workspace.

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How the World Wide Web Disrupted Manufacturing

QAD

Disruptive technologies have become the standard in manufacturing, so much so that it’s easy to forget the unprecedented rate of change we’ve all become accustomed to, and that it all began with a single piece of software that changed life as we know it: the World Wide Web (WWW). These are better known today as URL, HTTP and HTML.

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Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Wolfgang Lehmacher!

Supply Chain Game Changer

In 1996, I was promoted Country General Manager Switzerland. At that time, I familiarized myself with programming which enabled me to write codes to digitize documents in order to eliminate paper in the office and reduce archiving space. I was Country Manager Switzerland at TNT when the company was bought by KPN.

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Side-stepping the Pitfalls of a Digital Strategy for 2022

Supply Chain Shaman

And, in the strategy documents that I review, most teams are rebranding historical work as digital. Over time, I watched the scope change from a broad view of designing processes from the customer’s customer to the supplier’s supplier to a more narrow view of distribution, logistics, or procurement to improve functional metrics.