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How Consumer Behavior is Changing

Enterra Insights

As a result, we found new ways to combine and analyze data in the Enterra Global Insights and Optimization System to help find answers. AI can evaluate multiple data sources, such as internal company data and publicly available information like anonymized mobile or text data.

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SCRC Supply Chain Index contributes again to the 2021 Wall Street Journal Top 250 Best Managed Companies

NC State SCRC

Global outsourcing affords many benefits in the form of lower prices and expanded market access, but only recently have senior executives begun to recognize the increased risk attributed to the higher probability of product and service flow disruptions in global sourcing networks.

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Reflections, Thank-you(s) and Rethinking the Future

Supply Chain Shaman

The recent Supply Chain Insights Global Summit gave me new perspective and insights. Open Source Technologies (Examples include Hadoop, Spark, Kafka). Growth from M&A, and globalization is slowing. Global Trade is Here to Stay. In the Post World War II Economy, we experienced sixty years of global trade.

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The Changing Face of Manufacturing: How US Manufacturers are Looking Homeward

GlobalTranz

With the rise in global crude oil production and relative political stability in the major oil producing nations, particularly Iraq and Libya, the price of crude oil has fallen from above $100 a barrel to around $50 a barrel in just a year. Drop in the price of crude oil.

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Looking Ahead: Ukraine Reconstruction

Enterra Insights

Megan Greene , a Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, Global Chief Economist at Kroll Institute, and the Dame Deanne Senior Fellow in International Economics at Chatham House, explains, “What is clear is Ukraine will need a lot of financial help when the fighting stops. RAND analysts, Howard J.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2016

Talking Logistics

How will transportation, inventory, and sourcing policy decisions change in light of this cheap oil environment? Terrorism : The recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, coupled with the ongoing instability in Syria and Iraq and the spread of ISIS, have raised the risk for terrorism-related supply chain disruptions in 2016.

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Behind the Numbers of the SCRC Supply Management Index

NC State SCRC

These interviews are often the best source of information and are not published. Secondary data sources are published available databases, reports, websites, and so on. Supply Market Intelligence: A Managerial Handbook for Building Sourcing Strategies , New York, NY, Auerbach Publications. chemicals, resins, IT providers).