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Top 6 Retail Trends & Supply Chain Planning Challenges in 2023

Logistics Viewpoints

The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the following economic sanctions spiked energy prices and created new sourcing challenges for certain agricultural products and raw materials. This means they are more likely to focus on value and affordability and change their priorities and brand preferences when making purchases.

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Ethics in Procurement – Simple, but Not Always Easy

Logistics Bureau

If you have not yet tackled the question of ethics in procurement, now is a great time to start. It does not matter whether you are a procurement professional, internal customer, external customer, senior executive, or supplier. Procurement is what sets entire supply chains and their organisations in motion.

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Shipping is still lost at sea when it comes to big data

DELMIA Quintiq

Uncertain recovery provides an opportunity to look at how better pricing, capacity management, and business optimization could combat the inevitable decline in yield. Retail has learned the simple truth that the ‘one size fits all’ approach only leads to a needless spiral of lower and lower prices, and year-round sales. Order taken.

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Creating Paper Trails Without Paper: Making the Switch to Digital QMS

Arena Solutions

It isn’t just the price of the paper that’s an issue. In addition, to meet quality management system (QMS) standards, medical device manufacturers must preserve documented records of design reviews, customer complaints, software validation and verification , training , and design controls documented in a design history file (DHF).

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S&OP, a vision for the future. The expert interview series #5

Supply Chain Trend

Kirkegaard founded DCRA Inc a supply chain solutions firm leveraging best of targeted management consulting and supply chain technology solutions with an emphasis on S&OP. was one the first to develop dedicated S&OP technology solutions. Unlike many algorithmic “black box” tools (e.g. The DCRA Inc.

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