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Limestone Extraction from Florida Quarries!

Supply Chain Game Changer

This article will cover everything you need to know about limestone extraction from Florida quarries, including its history, uses, the extraction process, and more! The Increase in the Use of Limestone in Florida. In fact, Florida is the third-largest producer of limestone in the United States. Popular Quarries in Florida.

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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

Logistics Viewpoints

Everything from contrast dye, to tubing, to medical devices with embedded semiconductor chips would suddenly become difficult to source. Many of their suppliers were using the same sub-tier manufacturers. Last summer a hurricane was coming up through the Gulf and across the Panhandle of Florida.”

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Procurement and Supply Chain are Smarter Together – Practical Use Cases

Logistics Viewpoints

Building optionality in the supply chain through collaborative sourcing: Supply chain teams can proactively identify choke points within the existing network by leveraging emerging technologies such as digital twins and advanced analytics, and modeling their end-to-end supply chains. This can in turn benefit Tier 2 suppliers and beyond.

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Supply Chain Design: A Tool to Help Maximize Value

Logistics Viewpoints

The purpose of data aggregation is, on one hand, to minimize the number of records you’ll be working with and, on the other hand, to reflect critical business patterns: order prioritization, customer segmentation, sourcing logic. How easy is it to open and close distribution centers or move products across manufacturing facilities?

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ProcureCon Indirect – East, 25th – 27th March 2019, Florida

ivalua

Visit our booth and ask us about the work we are doing with US Public Sector Organizations and with Manufacturers such as Meritor. Here are a couple of Sourcing Customer Stories, to bring you up to speed with Ivalua’s expertise: Ivalua will be represented at the event by our North American Marketing Director, Ty Levine!

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5 Recommendations towards a Resilient S&OP

Logistics Viewpoints

As product flows rapidly shifted and hard baked assumptions about lead times and sourcing locations were put to test, users across many organizations bypassed their planning systems and turned to excel sheets, internal data science teams or non-traditional supply chain vendors who could deliver AI based solutions at a faster turn.

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Plant-location decisions and potential supply chain risk

Kinaxis

The outcome is expected to either significantly impact an existing automotive supplier network or prompt manufacturers and suppliers to move or begin operations. The Wall Street Journal reports that at least 11 states are in talks to land the manufacturing plant.