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Supply Chain Risk Management: Risks of Relocating a Business ‘China to Vietnam’

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

According to Lambert and Cooper, accelerating globalisation and propelling innovations have been responsible over the past years for developing market competition. Customer service, parts shortages, unprecedented inventory growth, and warrant management can actually take up internal sources and affect profit margins.

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Smart Supply Chains Adapt to Overcome COVID-19 Challenges

Logistics Bureau

The US auto industry is expected to follow suit as stockpiled inventory becomes depleted. Examples are: Samsung Electronics , which is shifting part of its domestic phone production to Vietnam due to the rapid advance of COVID-19 in South Korea. It is also airlifting parts from China to its Vietnam operations.

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Dr. Hau Lee on the New Supply Chain—and What to Watch Out for in TPP

Elementum

His areas of specialization include global value chain innovations, supply chain management, global logistics, inventory modeling, and environmental and social responsibility. Inventory problems could mean anything: distribution, logistics, manufacturing, design. Nike manufacturers are based in China, Indonesia, and Vietnam.

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Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods

Gravity Supply Chain

Just-in-time (JIT) inventory management became crucial to the nation’s meteoritic industrial growth, including Toyota’s eclipsing North American and European automakers as the world’s largest automakers for their time. This corporate management innovation eventually became standard operating procedure throughout the West.

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Essential Skills for Supply Chain Leaders in Asia during Pandemic

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Changing Landscape of Supply Chain Executives Traditionally, supply chain executives excelled in managing functions like transportation, warehousing, inventory, and production planning but supply chain process extends beyond the firm, involving global relationships with suppliers and customers.

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The Age of Agility: Building Resilience in the Supply Chain

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

However, measures such as alternative factories, dual sourcing and more generous safety stocks go against the well-versed philosophy of lean supply chains that has prevailed in recent decades,” he says. Inventory and Capacity Buffers. Multi-Sourcing. Collaboration and innovation through partnerships.

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Is it Time for to Move Away from “World Class Supply Chains”?

NC State SCRC

They combined related functions such as purchasing, inventory control, receiving, and stores under the authority of one individual. The Vietnam War, for example, resulted in upward price and material availability pressures. External events directly affected the operation of the typical firm.