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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

I am half-way through a spring speaking tour that will wrap-up in June with a speech in South Africa and Peru. In the outside-in supply chain, the signals are from the buy and sell-side markets back to the enterprise. For example, should customer sentiment data feed into quality systems? This work is important to me.

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An update on copper

Resilinc

Declining ore quality from Chile, the top producing country, will lead to higher energy usage and costs for processing, according to IEA. Skidmore notes that “Japan and China have made excellent progress in creating a circular copper supply chain.”. Copper mining also faces a host of challenges and barriers.