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Water is as Important to Some Industries as Electricity

Enterra Insights

In the past two decades, military clashes between nations over water resources have been exceedingly rare, but internal water-related conflicts and tensions have been on the rise in recent years.” Transition to adaptive policies that enable NbS across infrastructure engineering, procurement, and construction.

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Ferrari: Under the Hood

ToolsGroup

The reading audience is global, and spans a wide variety of roles: procurement, supply chain strategy and planning, product management, logistics and transportation, customer service, and others. I am digging deeper into climate change, and opportunities for innovation in value-chain practices and material movements.

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SCRC Meeting – Tom Linton’s “Supply Chain Eight” and Golden Winged Warblers : Questions Every New CSCO Should Ask Their CEO

NC State SCRC

My first Monday in, I asked for a full report of all our supply chain metrics, and my analyst told me he could get it to me by Friday. Some of the many issues that undergo different social and political debates include guns, the use of military force, sugar water, cigarettes, fatty food, and many other issues.

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Bias in Recruitment AI: What Procurement Needs to Consider

Proxima

Tread carefully: you’ll need to plan time in your procurement to test and contract accordingly. And yet, if not built correctly, there could be bias embedded in these otherwise innovative solutions. So what must procurement do when evaluating AI-enabled recruitment tech?

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28 supply chain professionals share the biggest challenges of supply chain management

6 River Systems

Companies have been in a “wait and see” mode for the last three to six months with regard to this, and now their procurement and supply chain leadership are being forced to find new and creative ways to handle the purchasing and movement of goods on a global scale. In a lot of situations, this is not the case.

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The Ultimate Guide to PLM Software

Arena Solutions

To gain a first-mover advantage in today’s highly competitive market, companies require the ability to innovate rapidly. military issued standards on how government contractors should use configuration management. Breaking Down the Barriers to Product Innovation. Department of Defense. Two decades later, the U.S. PLM Resources.

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Sorry, I’m Not Sure: Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2018

Talking Logistics

North Korea : The more missiles North Korea launches and tests, the greater the risk for military conflict — or worse. On December 17, Newsweek reported that “The United States Military has conducted joint training operations with South Korean forces to practice removing nuclear weapons from North Korea in the event of war.”