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Restructuring Global Value Chains & Tariff Reduction – A Continuous Evolution for Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Seen optimistically, this challenging trade environment is a catalyst for a slew of innovative measures and creative tactics to mitigate tariff costs – although one could argue that supply chain optimization from a cost and performance perspective is something that firms should already be doing on an ongoing basis. This practice is illegal.

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Reimagining Logistics: Focusing on What’s Ahead, Not What Happened

Logistics Viewpoints

It’s time to focus on how we innovate and optimize our businesses and operations in this permanently altered world. This is not a continuous improvement exercise, but a matter of survival as greater unpredictability prevails in our markets, continually taxing resources, and challenging forecast accuracy on both the demand and supply sides.

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Freight Procurement is a Different Game

Logistics Viewpoints

Simmons Foods Simmons Foods is a farm to fork poultry manufacturer. Then we are pulling out of an animal nutrition production facility and taking those finished products to a pet food manufacturing facility. Any shipment moving from Siloam Springs to Bentonville, Arkansas, for example, would be one lane.

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Profit and Planet: Two Sides of the Same Supply Chain Coin

BlueYonder

This current complexity represents the culmination of decades of supply chain evolution, aligning with new innovations, changing customer expectations and a growing understanding of environmental concerns. For example, calculating carbon output and fuel cost savings of transport options, including not just the route but the vehicle itself.

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BD Achieves End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

The company had access to huge amounts of trade data, for example. They would go to a Tier 1 manufacturer and ask them to identify the Tier 2 suppliers for the parts that went into a specific component. But the further up the supply chain BD went, the less incentive suppliers had to participate in these exercises.

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How the Dutch Armed Forces’ Change Management Approach Contributed to 3D Printing Adoption

DiManEx

Last month, we participated in the AM for Defense Conference , a virtual event which offered a window into the innovative uses of Additive Manufacturing in the defense industry. An example of this is how “latency” is solved in traditional supply chains by stocking up warehouses.

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Sustainable procurement: a platform to rebuild

Proxima

One popular movement that provides a good example is the pursuit of resilience and, in particular, the pursuit of resilience in the face of low-cost country sourcing, or low-cost complex supply chains. Embrace Innovation to unlock new sustainable value. It’s not a one-off exercise. Possibly not. Prompt Payment Code c.