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Supply Chain Roundtable Series: Optimising the Manufacturing Supply Chain

Unleashed

Often, we end up asking the partner in Germany or Spain or somewhere, ‘Can you air freight this? You’ve got to be really leaning into your customers and getting as much information from them as possible, but also trying to find as many similar products as possible to gain some kind of insight from them.

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10 Vital Supply Chain Lessons from the Coronavirus Pandemic!

Supply Chain Game Changer

And with less manufacturing output there were fewer container ships leaving Asia full of goods meaning activity in ports in North America and Europe would slow down rather quickly. Iran and Spain were highly infected. Whether you ship by land, air or sea you must know who your carriers are at every step. And the U.S.