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The Power of Outsourcing for Supply Chain Improvement

Logistics Bureau

To date, most of our content has covered topics related either to logistics or manufacturing outsourcing. Meanwhile, countries in Southeast Asia, such as Vietnam and Cambodia, are enjoying growth as offshore manufacturing centres.

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Essential Skills for Supply Chain Leaders in Asia during Pandemic

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Changing Landscape of Supply Chain Executives Traditionally, supply chain executives excelled in managing functions like transportation, warehousing, inventory, and production planning but supply chain process extends beyond the firm, involving global relationships with suppliers and customers.

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Trends 2024: Risk Management

Enterra Insights

Industry journalist Camille Rustici provides an excellent overview of many of those risks.[2] While this will help engineering and manufacturing companies borrow to increase investment and ease inflation on domestic costs (and for their sales), it could lead to a weaker dollar, particularly to the yen. A weak dollar will support U.S.

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Supply Chain Risk Management in 2024: A Forward Look with Tom Linton

Resilinc

To address issues around labor, the biggest thing that managers can do is figure out how the latest AI tools and technologies that have become available over the last five years can be deployed and orchestrated to do work differently. Those tools will either eliminate work, change work, or automate work. Tom: ‘Flow’ is about movement.

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Apple’s China Problem

Logistics Viewpoints

These controls included a measure to cut China off from certain buying semiconductor chips made anywhere in the world with US tools. It is not just US tool manufacturers that are affected. The goal is to set China’s chip manufacturing industry back by at least a decade. Apple is the world’s most valuable company.

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