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Global Manufacturing Activity Levels Contract During October

Supply Chain Matters

In our continuing series, Supply Chain Matters provides readers with highlights of monthly reported global and regional wide PMI activity levels. The latest data regarding October reinforces that global and regional manufacturing levels remain subdued, similar to this condition during all of the Q3 period. rose from the 45.0

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Walmart and Target Financial Performances- Two Contrasts for the Holiday Fulfillment Quarter

Supply Chain Matters

Walmart’s Third Quarter Financial Performance This week global and U.S. retailer Walmart was the first major retailer reporting Q3 quarterly financial performance. The results more than exceeded Wall Street and investor expectations, prompting a reported 4.5 A reported stronger than expected 5.5 percent revenue and 9.1

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Gartner Wades into Geo Politics with Advice for Supply Chains given Iran Israeli Hostilities

Supply Chain Digest

Assess and mitigate exposure to new global transportation bottlenecks 2. Prepare CFOs for continued supply chain cost volatility 3. Financial performance metrics are valuable as they capture the economic consequences of business decisions.

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Why Blockchain Within The Supply Chain Makes Perfect Sense

GlobalTranz

Digitization Supply Chain Management, like many other industries in the past decade, has iteratively undergone transformational periods of digitization — shifts to digital processes essential for remaining competitive and profitable in the global marketplace. Author information Kevin Doubleday Fluree is a blockchain databae company.

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The Strategic Importance of Global Procurement

Logistics Bureau

Procurement has never played such an important role in the increasingly globalised economy. Has procurement fundamentally changed itself in the past 10 years? Strategic Procurement can mean totally different things in different industries and sectors. The time when Procurement was almost a synonym to Purchasing has long gone.

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7 Core Competencies for Optimizing Global Transportation and Freight Spend

3rdwave

Managing a global supply chain network requires the ability to manage and control both global transportation execution and the associated freight spend. In a constantly shifting and competitive global trading environment, it is increasingly important to control all costs across the entire supply chain.

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4 Challenges in Global Transportation Management

3rdwave

There are 4 fundamental areas where global transportation is challenged. Three of these challenges are variants on traditional transportation challenges and the last is relatively new but growing in importance. These challenges are: Information Accessibility – visibility, reporting & analysis, communication.