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Different Strokes for Different Folks (to Yield Better Results?)?

Supply Chain Shaman

The translation of demand in traditional advanced planning systems determines safety stock, but there is a greater opportunity for pharmaceutical companies with an inventory turn level of two, and great demand and supply uncertainty, to determine inventory strategies including buffers, push-pull decoupling points, and postponement.

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The Supply Chain Impacts of the Russian Attack on the Ukraine

NC State SCRC

The fighting has shut down car factories in Germany that rely on made-in-Ukraine components and hit supplies for the steel industry as far as Japan. But there is another deadly impact as well….Russia’s Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is piling new troubles onto the world’s already battered supply chains.

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Top 9 Marketplaces to Sell Your Products in the Middle East

Vinculum

Available all over the Middle East, except for Iraq, Letstango has partnered with several airlines to sell across the GCC. Like Mumzworld, Letstango is also a category-specific marketplace for electronics, smartphones, televisions, home appliances, and gadgets – although it has expanded to lifestyle. Why Letstango?

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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? Like oil prices, interest rates impact supply chain policies and decisions, especially with regards to inventory. Will interest rates continue to climb in 2016, and if so, what impact will it have on inventory levels?

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How the Coronavirus is underscoring the relevance of Global Supply Chain throughput: From the Frontlines of Yokohama, Milan, and Southern Florida

ThroughPut

A few weeks after my contact with a Samoan leader who explained how medication throughput was a problem with the measles outbreak, I posted on LinkedIn about how turning a blind eye to epidemics and following an isolationist policy against our fellow human beings would only hurt when it impacted corporate industrial supply chains.

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Logistics Service Providers (LSP): 3PL vs 4PL vs 5PL

SCMDOJO

LSPs generally endow tremendous inventory management and warehousing solutions, conveyance of orders and international logistics. On the other hand, the 4PL is a novel concept that is making its way into the industry, and it entails hiring a supervisor to manage a company’s whole supply chain. Duhok, Iraq. 2021, 10 05).

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Middle East eCommerce Reimagined

Vinculum

Countries like Iraq, Egypt, Oman, Lebanon, Morocco, Jordan, Algeria, and Saudi Arabia have the fastest growing young generation, with a median age of 22 years old. Thus, bringing immediate focus on the digital commerce industry and need to implement the technology-driven solutions.