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What are the best Supply Chain Strategies for 2021

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Supply Chain Risk Management on the World Stage – Lessons Learned. For example, China and the United States are ranked 1 and 2 respectively for the production of rare earth elements, but this is deceiving as China is producing 5 times the amount of the United States.

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Shorter Supply Chains are Upending Globalization Patterns

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In his opening remarks at the World Economic Forum’s ‘summer Davos’ in Tianjin [in late June], Li said that ‘some in the West are hyping up the so-called phraseologies of reducing dependencies and de-risking. ”[1] Chinese leaders believe that companies, not governments, should make risk management decisions.

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Supply Chain Leaders Prepare For The Long Haul. Caution: It Will Be Gray.

Supply Chain Shaman

The first major polio epidemic in the United States occurred in Vermont in the summer of 1894. The last case of polio in the United States was 1979. The thought of a pandemic killing over 350,000 people globally and over 100,000 in the United States in just three months is mind-numbing.

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Supply Chain: The True Game of Risk

Supply Chain Shaman

When I was a small child growing up in the mountains of West Virginia in the United States, on snowy days, my family would gather around the kitchen table and play board games. One of my favorites was the board game Risk. Historically, the risk management focus was to reduce insurance costs.

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Top 15 Logistics Stories of 2022

Logistics Viewpoints

While time slot management applications work as a stand-alone application, it is more valuable when it is integrated into with other applications on a common platform such as warehouse- and yard management or visibility solutions. Inventory Management in a High Inflation Environment ; Clint Reiser. Will it take decades?

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Driving Sustainability in the Age of Supply Chain Disruption

Logistics Viewpoints

AI and machine learning provides more accurate information during the transportation planning process; using IoT to monitor shipments, cargo conditions, and yard management have allowed companies to make quick adjustments when disruptions occur; and mobile digital assistants provide feedback and instant visibility into shipments and inventory.

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10 Critical Supply Chain Lessons from The Pandemic! (Video)

Supply Chain Game Changer

Yet in many other cases the pandemic is spreading aggressively and even realizing a devastating resurgence, particularly in the United States. In some places the pandemic has been controlled and life is getting back to a new normal.

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