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A True Supply Chain Transformation Requires the Proper Talent

Logistics Viewpoints

When companies implement enterprise software solutions, they often label that implementation as being part of their company’s digital transformation. But implementing new software does not digitally transform anything if the people that are supposed to use that software cannot do so effectively.

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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. When you think about the product lifecycle from cradle-to-cradle through the moments of truth of purchase, usage, and disposal, what are the opportunities to improve corporate social responsibility? Bio-engineering?

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Coffee Shipping 101: Costs, Challenges, & How-to Ship

ShipBob

This change in the global landscape provided coffee lovers the opportunity to make purchases online whereas they may not have done so in the past. These services allow coffee shipping businesses to better forecast how much inventory is needed all the while, increasing the lifetime value of their customer.

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Copper in flux

Resilinc

Less than four months ago, copper was setting record prices and experts were forecasting long-term supply gaps due to a collision between the growing demand for copper in clean-power technologies and the cost and difficulties of developing new mines. It’s just an impossibly tight future.”. Learn more about CommodityWatch AI.

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An update on copper

Resilinc

Geographically speaking, copper is produced by “a very narrow supply base,” according to Mining Technology : “65% of documented copper resources in just five countries: Chile, Australia, Peru, Mexico, and the US.” Mining Technology’s Zachary Skidmore lists a broader set of solutions to “alleviate the pressure on the [copper] supply chain.”