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SCRC Supply Chain Index contributes again to the 2021 Wall Street Journal Top 250 Best Managed Companies

NC State SCRC

Companies who have a dedicated team focused on collecting information on the supply market can anticipate shortages, and work to create better category strategies to control costs. A second critical capability for managing shortages is known as Supplier Relationship Management. This is NOT a ‘touchy feely’ type of requirement.

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The Changing Face of Manufacturing: How US Manufacturers are Looking Homeward

GlobalTranz

With the rise in global crude oil production and relative political stability in the major oil producing nations, particularly Iraq and Libya, the price of crude oil has fallen from above $100 a barrel to around $50 a barrel in just a year. Drop in the price of crude oil.

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Reflections, Thank-you(s) and Rethinking the Future

Supply Chain Shaman

Open Source Technologies (Examples include Hadoop, Spark, Kafka). While the push in the back office was for efficiency–larger batch sizes, transactional processing, lower costs of transportation, and labor arbitrage strategies (Many companies outsourced the back office to India.)–the Blockchain/Cryptocurrency. 3D Printing.

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Looking Ahead: Ukraine Reconstruction

Enterra Insights

Shatz , Khrystyna Holynska , and William Courtney , observe, “Debate is ramping up about core issues, such as the scope of reconstruction, sources of funding, and reforms needed for success. RAND analysts, Howard J. Ukraine and the West might begin now to forge consensus on these issues.”[3]

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Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2016

Talking Logistics

That said, there are several high-level trends and factors that will impact supply chain and logistics strategies and operations in 2016: Oil Prices : Just a few years ago, there was plenty of talk about oil prices potentially reaching $300 per barrel and the impact it would have on supply chain and logistics networks and processes (e.g.,

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Behind the Numbers of the SCRC Supply Management Index

NC State SCRC

Companies who have a dedicated team focused on collecting information on the supply market can anticipate shortages, and work to create better category strategies to control costs. These interviews are often the best source of information and are not published. The data can be collected in a number of ways. Manufacturers or the U.S.

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Interoceanic Passages

Abivin

billion of its total revenue in the fiscal year 2014, placing it as the third-largest source of income in the nation. The concessioning of its port terminal facilities was the first step in the privatization strategy the Panama Canal Authority took. A total of $1.32

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