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Watch: How a Lack of Supply Chain Visibility Fuels Corruption Risk

Supply Chain Brain

Jordan Strauss, managing director in the Forensic Investigations & Intelligence Practice of Kroll, LLC, details the major risks of corruption existing in supply chains today, and offers tips on addressing them.

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How to find the best supplier?

DocShipper Sourcing

What is a supplier? A supplier is a corporation or individual who provides various required resources to the business and its competitors, including the provision of raw materials, equipment, energy, and labor. Normally, the condition of a supplier has a huge impact on the marketing activities of the enterprise. For instance, raw material price changes … The post How to find the best supplier?

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Innovation Today: Not a Choice, But an Imperative

Supply Chain Brain

Global supply chains were clearly in trouble before COVID-19 arrived on the scene, but when it did, the weakness of our time-honored strategies for procurement, production and delivery became shockingly evident.

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Four inventory replenishment strategies to consider

Taulia

For manufacturers and retailers alike, inventory management and replenishment are at the heart of operations. Products cannot be produced if the materials aren’t on-hand, and they can’t be sold if they’re not in stock. In other words, inventory health is a part of business that simply cannot be ignored. Inventory replenishment, also known as stock replenishment, is the process of inventory moving from a supplier or reserve storage facility into a businesses’ primary storage facility for use or s

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Scaling Logistics for Success: A White Claw Story

Speaker: Scott Campbell and Molly Feller

As the demand for your products skyrockets 🚀, you're likely experiencing logistical challenges that are preventing you from scaling your business. The sudden surge in demand can be exciting, but it can also put a strain on your supply chain and logistics operations. In this webinar, join Scott Campbell, Vice President, Logistics & Demand at Mark Anthony Services and Molly Feller, VP Logistics as a Service Operations at e2open, as they explore the challenges that arise when companies expe

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Five Imperatives for Selecting the Right Reverse Logistics Provider

Supply Chain Brain

Most retailers require a third-party logistics provider to help navigate the complex web of reverse supply chains. When choosing the right reverse logistics provider, the most successful retailers will ask these key questions.

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PMI Builds One-Stop Shop for ‘Touchless’ Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Brain

A radical decision by tobacco giant Philip Morris International to transition to smoke-free products called for a global makeover of its supply chain processes.

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A Public-Private Logistics Partnership Ups Quality of Medicine Delivery in Ukraine

Supply Chain Brain

Management Sciences for Health, with funding from USAID and in cooperation with multiple private and public entities in Ukraine, launches a successful pilot to improve that country’s healthcare delivery supply chain.

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Five Pain Points of Manufacturing Supply Chains Eased by Tooling Digitalization

Supply Chain Brain

When it comes to optimizing supply chain performance, manufacturing supply chains that link toolmakers, OEMs and suppliers are frequently overlooked.

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Digital Twin Solves Burning Questions for Tobacco Giant Philip Morris

Supply Chain Brain

Philip Morris International employed a digital twin of its supply chain to manage product sourcing, capacity planning and a pool of “what if” scenarios.

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2024 Annual T&L M&A Report

Tenney Group, an industry specialized M&A Advisory firm in the T&L space, produced the 2024 Annual M&A Report. The report contains an in depth overview of 2023 notable deals and the market, while also providing the outlook for 2024 M&A.

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The Supply Chain Innovation Award

Supply Chain Brain

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AI Drives Safety Improvements in the Warehouse

Supply Chain Brain

With safety as one of its core values, Holman Logistics turned to artificial intelligence and machine learning to reduce the number of forklift accidents in its warehouses.

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Ensuring the Quality and Safety of the Pfizer Vaccine in the Pandemic

Supply Chain Brain

Controlant, a provider of innovative technology for monitoring the distribution of temperature-sensitive vaccines and other items in the cold chain, takes on COVID-19.

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Smaller U.S. Ports Pitch for Cargo as California’s Logjams Swell

Supply Chain Brain

The U.S.’s busiest port complex in southern California has more demand than it can handle — and that’s left smaller hubs along the nation’s coastline angling for some of that business.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Moderna Finds That Creating a Covid Vaccine Was the Easy Part

Supply Chain Brain

More than 10 months after U.S. regulators first authorized its potent shot, Moderna is finding that inventing a COVID-19 vaccine was actually a relatively straightforward task compared with what would come next: ramping up vial-filling operations on multiple continents and distributing the vaccine to countries around the world in the middle of a devastating pandemic.

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What’s in the $550 Billion Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill

Supply Chain Brain

The House Friday passed the bipartisan plan to spend an extra $550 billion to revitalize the nation’s transportation and utility infrastructure, mostly in the next five years.

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Fashion 3PL Triples Throughput With Fleet of Fulfillment Bots

Supply Chain Brain

Faced with rising e-commerce orders and seasonal swings in demand, a fashion and footwear logistics provider bet on fulfillment robots to boost productivity.

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