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The World Today Part 1: The Best Manufacturing Ecosystems Win

Enterra Insights

Factors like automation, massive investments in at-scale, fit-for-purpose technologies, specialized training, low labor rates, and effective demand and supply planning capabilities, have woven themselves like threads into the fabric of efficient global manufacturing ecosystems. So, how do we define a global ecosystem?

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Total Supply Chain

Supply Chain Movement

Every time he visits the Netherlands, he talks about Rinus Michels’ and Johan Cruijff’s ‘Oranje’ team, which came so close to winning the World Cup in 1974. Whether big brand manufacturers, small specialist suppliers, logistics service providers, a developer of advanced materials or an IT supplier – they each have their own role.

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Outage Raises Potential Medical Isotope Shortage

Exiger Perspectives

Outage Raises Potential Medical Isotope Shortage Client Alert Table of Contents A structural flaw in a Netherlands-based nuclear research reactor may cause a global medical isotope shortage. based TC-99m generator manufacturers and their known customers. Number of radiopharmaceutical U.S. government contracts awarded to U.S.-

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Collaboration is urgently needed

Supply Chain Movement

In the Netherlands, supply chain collaboration has been a hot topic for years, both in the media and at conferences. This often refers to manufacturing companies (partially) combining their logistics operations. The topic feels like a kind of common ‘charity’ that no one can be against. Until it has to become concrete.

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Tesla’s Q4 and 2024 Financial Performance

Supply Chain Matters

Regarding profitability growth the report specifically indicates- While we continue to execute on innovations to reduce the cost of manufacturing and operations, over time, we expect our hardware related profits to be accompanied by an acceleration of AI, software and fleet-based profits. million vehicles.

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Responding to “Tariff Man”: Beyond the Rhetoric

Jaggaer

A year ago, we published a checklist naming eight procurement challenges manufacturing companies would face in 2024. What will that mean for procurement in the manufacturing sector? The impact on European manufacturing Lets begin with Europe. US tariffs could hardly come at a worse time for Europes manufacturing powerhouse!

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The Top 10 Manufacturing Blog Posts from 2014

GlobalTranz

Today, we kick off our annual year end series highlighting the top blog posts in each of our 7 main categories: Manufacturing , Supply Chain , Logistics , 3PL , Business , Transportation , Freight. Top Manufacturing Blog Posts for 2014. As each year comes to a close, we all look back on the year that was in reflection. Read Full Post.