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Five Tactics for Enabling Smart and Sustainable Supply Chains

Supply Chain Brain

Data-driven, predictive and agile supply chains can help companies achieve their net-zero emissions goals by enabling end-to-end efficiency.

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Rethinking Black Swan Events for Modern Supply Chain Risk Management

Resilinc

Black swan supply chain events have traditionally been associated with (if not formally defined as) improbable, rare, or unlikely events with severe or even catastrophic business impacts. However, as we learn more about how disruptions impact supply chains, it is time for companies and supply chain managers to reconsider the traditional view of black swan events.

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Watch: Building the Supply Chain From the Ground Up

Supply Chain Brain

A successful supply chain transformation begins with "changing the narrative," says George Raptis, vice president of operations at JP Outfitters. Among other things, the company had to stop viewing itself as "small.

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Is the Biden Administration Undercutting Its Own Policies on Chinese Solar Imports?

Supply Chain Brain

Conflicting policies within the Biden Administration have provided China with a loophole that allows it to circumvent antidumping and countervailing duties on the export on solar cells and modules to the U.S.

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Reducing Global Lead Times To Improve Customer Experience At Becton Dickinson

Product lead time is crucial in the life sciences industry and represents a key consideration for customers’ purchasing decisions. For this reason, BD Biosciences aimed to optimize its global supply and distribution network to reduce delivery lead time to customers and optimize its global inventory. How was BD Biosciences successful in reducing global distribution lead times between 30% and 60% in addition to: Increasing agility to prioritize urgent and ad-hoc customer requests Increasing global

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India Rice Export Ban Is Fueling Risk of Social Unrest, UN Says

Supply Chain Brain

Prices of the crop, a staple for half the world, surged to the highest levels in almost 15 years after the globe's top shipper began curbing exports.

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