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Top Supply Chain Risks to Prepare for in 2025

Logistics Viewpoints

The pitches share a sneak peek of the predictions that a CEO at a solutions company is making and then asks the journalist if they want to interview the CEO. In 2025, it will be impossible to avoid conflict and its impact on sourcing, manufacturing, and logistics. These predictions mostly seem obvious. This would primarily affect U.S.

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HWI Unleashes Continuous Innovation

Logistics Viewpoints

The company has 18 plants and operating locations in the US, Canada, and Mexico as well as plants and labs in the UK, China, and Indonesia. They also have 20 sourcing locations across North America from which they can ship make to stock products. The sourcing centers are key to just-in-time, same-day, next-day deliveries.

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The Pros and Cons: International and Domestic Sourcing

Unleashed

It’s easy to oversimplify the differences between sourcing for parts locally or internationally. When considering where to purchase from, the prevailing idea seems to be that domestic sourcing allows for better control and shorter lead time, but international sourcing is more cost-effective. International Sourcing.

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Essential Skills for Supply Chain Leaders in Asia during Pandemic

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Companies emphasized offshore sourcing, single suppliers, and centralized warehousing to optimize their operations. To enhance resilience, supply chain strategies have shifted from cost-saving to redundancy by engaging multiple suppliers, particularly from local or nearshore sources, to mitigate supply disruptions.

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The Green Corridor: Resilience from Diversification

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The Green Corridor: Resilience from Diversification by Timothy Foote, Founder of Susymbio Access to Sustainable Power is the Challenge of Our Time, but when clean power sources are diversified it promises more stability for our future. Sadly, Malawi’s most used local source of power is its shrinking forests.

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Illuminating Supply Chain Risks in Isolation Gowns for Healthcare

Exiger Perspectives

Table of Contents Executive Summary Exiger Government Solutions (“Exiger”) was tasked by a U.S. Concentration risk — particularly with major reliance on suppliers in China and Indonesia — also emerged as a factor that threatened the client’s compliance with The Make PPE in America Act. of isolation gown manufacturers based in the U.S.

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Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods

Gravity Supply Chain

Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods by giving customers more visibility and greater confidence to accurately predict delivery times. ” Providing solutions in the context of this reality is critical, and together Spire and Gravity Supply Chain Solutions are working to restore the global supply chain.