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Customer Service: The Source of Supply Chain Innovation

The Logistics of Logistics

Customer Service: The Source of Supply Chain Innovation. In December’s issue of InBound, editor Keith Biondi cited customer service as the source for supply chain innovation. Technology has clearly driven much change in Supply Chain Management (SCM). And the logistics industry has countless IT solutions.

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What is a Sourcing Agency and How does it work?

SCMDOJO

In the global world of businesses, companies often seek help from sourcing agencies to figure out how to get the things they need. But what’s a sourcing agency or sourcing agent and how does it make buying things easier? Let’s explore this world of sourcing agencies and understand what they do.

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How Learning a New Language Can Benefit in SCM

SCMDOJO

Conducting Supply Chain Management Market Research Learning a new language will be of great help when conducting market research and evaluating the current challenges, especially if new logistical solutions are researched. When you have a plethora of different information coming from foreign sources, keeping things clear is essential!

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Instilling Added Efficiencies and Transportation Agility- Uber Freight and Oracle Partnership

Supply Chain Matters

As developments regarding industry supply chain disruptions continue unabated, businesses now increasingly face the sting of higher supply chain and transportation driven costs impacting the bottom line. Further, sustainability and transportation efficiency are intrinsically linked for long-term business continuity.

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Supply Chain Resilience. Really?

Supply Chain Shaman

Expand the “FLOW” program for logistics information sharing to forecast transportation flow. Reporting off of transportation data is a delays the signal by weeks and months.) Key elements include a focus is the use of the defense production act to improve accessibility of medicines to prevent drug shortages.

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Driving Sustainability in the Age of Supply Chain Disruption

Logistics Viewpoints

alternate sourcing strategies), while others are potentially negative (e.g. Emerging technologies play a role in managing disruption and are driving change in the transportation and logistics industries. Business logistics costs as a percentage of GDP is currently 7-8% in United States.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] 3 Core Supply Chain Management Trends Gearing Up to Change SCM Forever

GlobalTranz

The 3 Big Supply Chain Management Trends Surely to Change SCM as we know it Forever. At Cerasis, we have recently wrote a lot of material related to these three core trends and here is a brief highlight from some of the posts we’ve written about these trends: SCM Core Trend #1: Supply Chain Visibility.

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