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Trends 2023: Technology

Enterra Insights

2023 Technology Trends. AI is not a new trend; so, you might be asking why it tops my list of trends. ” Trend 5. These increasingly important solutions include renewable sources such as solar power and wind power, sustainable fuels such as hydrogen, long-duration battery systems, and smart grids.”

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Resilience and Agility in Supply Chains: Navigating Change in a Dynamic World

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Demand changes refer to shifts in customer preferences, market trends, or unexpected spikes in demand. These changes can significantly impact supply chains by affecting sourcing strategies, trade routes, and market access. Geopolitical changes encompass alterations in international relations, trade policies, tariffs, or regulations.

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Molex Prizes Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruptions in Iceland, for example, caused enormous disruption to air shipments across Western Europe. The data from Infor Nexus also helps the transportation teams do better carrier sourcing. Further, historically Molex had a focused sourcing strategy. That in turn led to a faster go live.

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Mass Customisation: What It Is and How Companies Are Using It

Unleashed

Learn more: 12 Benefits of Additive Manufacturing and 5 Disadvantages Why is mass customisation trending? Supply chain management for mass customisation manufacturers One thing is consistent in various sources that discuss how to transition to mass customisation: your supply chain has to evolve too.

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Supply Chain Resilience Core Capacities

MIT Supply Chain

For example, the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruption in Iceland caused a primary loss of freight transportation capacity, but that loss also robbed many companies of supply capacity. Source: James B. This is a relatively short-term constraint, although demographic trends suggest longer cycle times.

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Mindmap High-Tech Supply Chain 4.0

Supply Chain Movement

Trends for high-tech industry. The high-tech industry are currently facing a tsunami of external trends. These external trends force high-tech companies to prepare for this unpredictable future: Plan. The impact of trends force companies to make clear trade-offs: Do. Guadeloupe. Guinea-bissau. Iran, Islamic Republic of.

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Complex costs of transportation

Supply Chain Movement

By consolidating at the source, several shipments can be combined into one, thereby reducing the number of shipments even before the shipments arrive at the Logistics Service Provider (LSP). Supply Chain Movement and software vendor Eyefreight have developed this checklist to provide to pinpoint the key drivers of Freight Spend Management.