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Restructuring Global Value Chains & Tariff Reduction – A Continuous Evolution for Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

In extreme cases, firms simply state that a product comes from one country when, in actual fact, it was manufactured in a country that is impacted by the higher tariff being imposed. Alternatively, you may want to relocate – totally or in part – where your product is manufactured. This practice is illegal. Free trade agreements (FTAs).

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Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button by Lora Cecere , Founder, Supply Chain Insights Supply Chain Leaders Can’t Afford to Guess About the Future The global supply chain that we know today is built on three assumptions: rational government policy, low variability, and availability of logistics. These core assumptions are no longer true.

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The Supply Chain’s Groundhog Day Experience

Enterra Insights

The staff at My Logistics Magazine explains, “When the Covid-19 outbreak devastated worldwide commerce back in 2020, paralyzing supply chains, most industry professionals believed that the interruptions to global supply systems would be transitory. He explains, “Globalization failed because we stressed the supply chain too much.

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Why Have We Not Reduced Inventory?

Supply Chain Shaman

” CFO of a major manufacturer. This year supply chain leaders will celebrate thirty years of progress in supply chain management; but we have not made progress on one of the funamentals: inventory management. Have the early adopters of inventory optimization seen a reduction in inventory on their balance sheets?”

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Champions of Sustainability: Tim Cook

QAD

Sustainability has become both a strategic and operational objective for manufacturers globally. Although Tim Cook is best known as the Chief Executive Officer of Apple, he also stands high in the ranks of people dedicated to environmental preservation and the drive to manufacturing sustainability. Who is Tim Cook?

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Disruption in Supply Networks – How intelligent network platforms optimize for variability and uncertainty

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Disconnected algorithms won’t work, because you lose visibility, and then to compensate, you need armies of planners and inventory buffers. extra inventory. Furthermore, inventory buffering is required to meet demand and service levels, because the supply chain is not real time and can’t respond. Full actionability.

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Now Is the Right Time for Supply Chains To Do the Right Things

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The Covid-19 aftermath is so deeply engraved that in future, we can actually explain this phase as: BC “Before Covid-19” and AD “After Disease recovery” It has forced world leaders, policy makers, businesses to shift their focus to a survival mode for the most part of 2020. Manufacturing Planning.