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Supply Chain Success Prompts ToolsGroup-Lãberit Partnership to Expand into LATAM

ToolsGroup

After fruitful collaboration in Europe, the partners in supply chain software implementation celebrate a significant regional expansion. The two companies recognized the tremendous potential for a partnership that could meet the increased demand for supply chain solutions across Europe and Latin America.

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Can You Predict Supply Chain Disruptions in an Unpredictable World?

Logility

Sanctions, blocked Ukrainian ports, and stalled transportation routes have also disrupted the China-to-Europe supply chain. Rethink just-in-time inventory policies: There could be another pandemic or another war. If your organization relies heavily on China or Eastern Europe, consider reshoring.

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Building Value Networks. Stopping the Backward Slide.

Supply Chain Shaman

Phone calls to Europe or Asia were costly and of poor quality. Similarly, with the break-up of “The Bells” in the United States in 1982, personal networks grew more open. By the early 2000s, phone calls to Europe from my cell were expensive but manageable. Here are some rules of thumb: 1.

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The VF Corporation Invested in Supply Chain Agility Before COVID Made “Agility” the New Buzzword

Logistics Viewpoints

Goods move through 25 ports of entry into North America and 10 in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. China, for example, only produces 14% of their total units, only 3% of those units end up being exported to the United States and 2% to EMEA. The company works with 13 ocean carriers and 7 air carriers.

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Barcoding and Inventory Management – the Ultimate Guide

Unleashed

In this guide to barcodes in inventory management: In order to apply barcodes to inventory management, it is important to understand the basics of the barcode system. Hence, some companies will find corded barcode scanners to be all they need, where other companies require wireless scanners to support their online inventory management.

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How Europe is Coping with Supply Chain Disruption

Jaggaer

And of course, the problem is acute right across Europe. And of course in Europe we still do not know what will be the full impact of Brexit. Greater automation may mitigate the higher wage costs if production is “reshored” from low-cost countries to Europe, said Javorcik. Reshoring does not bring certainty of supply.

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A New Decade: Give Science A Chance

Supply Chain Shaman

Only four percent of companies compared to their peer groups improved balance sheet performance of growth, operating margin, and inventory turns. When compared to pre-recession years, we ended the decade with twenty more days of inventory. Days of Inventory Comparison. Now, let’s take consumer products.