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Navigating Disruption in MedTech

QAD

And new ones are popping up daily, from the Texas ice storm earlier this year, to mudslides in northern Germany and government embargos. For example, in some areas where we have a single-source supplier, we’ve had to increase collaboration with that partner and better understand their risk mitigation strategies.

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Podcast: Rob O’Byrne on Digital Transformation, Sustainability, and Diversification in Sourcing

Requis

I can claim to have been a nuclear rocket engineer for a couple of years, looking after nuclear rockets in West Germany during the end of the Cold War. Sourcing has probably been the biggest thing over the last decade or two, coupled with that reduction in local manufacturing of course. They are far more literate in terms of data.

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Tesla Reports Sales and Profitability Gains in Q2-2023 But Margins Erode

Supply Chain Matters

This was the metric that many investors were focusing on. Other Related Development This week, Tesla announced that the company has applied for approval to double the capacity of its Berlin, Germany auto gigafactory complex with indications of upwards of one million cars and associated batteries in annual production.

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4 Crucial Commodities to Watch in 2023

Resilinc

This means in order to meet the growing demand, lithium production must increase from 737,000 metric tons to more than 3 million tons by 2030 ( Washington Post ). Other sources note that there are ample lithium resources; an estimated 8 million tonnes in the world—and that lithium mining practices are becoming increasingly advanced.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Many metrics can be used to determine the top 3PL warehousing companies, such as company revenue, the number of warehouses, total warehouse square footage , etc. This compilation is based on the most currently available company revenue data (between 2018 and 2020) without factoring in any other metric. Revenue: €63.3 billion/$72.43

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The Supply Chain Response to India’s Second Wave of Covid!

Supply Chain Game Changer

France and Germany also extended their support with the supply of emergency medical equipment. While Germany offered help in setting up mobile oxygen production plant and provided 80 million K95 masks. The USISPF through donations from its member companies also sourced 1,00, 000 portable oxygen concentrators for home and hospital use.

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Manufacturing Gains From Machine Learning

IQMS

Source: Smartening up with Artificial Intelligence (AI) – What’s in it for Germany and its Industrial Sector? (52 Source: Technology and Innovation for the Future of Production: Accelerating Value Creation (38 pp., Source: Digital Factories 2020: Shaping the future of manufacturing (48 pp.,