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Your supply chain is costing you money – Reason #10 Failure to adequately train your supply chain planning staff

Kinaxis

Reason #9 Relentless pursuit of one supply chain metric at the expense of other metrics. General News Products Response Management Sales and operations planning (S&OP) Supply chain management 2008 US beef protest in South Korea Beef Business Business process Cargill Colorado Competitive advantage Customer Supply chain'

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2021 Manufacturing Trends Revealed by the Pandemic

QAD

QAD frequently publishes guides to international business by country, such as South Africa, Germany, India and many others; see Doing Business in South Korea. . Among the many ways QAD offers analysis tools, QAD Action Centers use analytics to help managers and shop floor staff monitor metrics and KPIs. .

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Ford Motor Moves Deeper Into Supply Network Vertical Integration

Supply Chain Matters

based Albemarle providing upwards of 100,000 metric tons of battery grade lithium hydroxide to supply 3 million Ford EV batteries starting in 2026. These agreements include U.S. powered EV’s.

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Top 5 Supply Chain Disruptions to Semiconductors 2023

Resilinc

For example, in August, Samsung Electronics announced plans to cease operations at certain older-generation facilities in Gyeonggi, South Korea. Factory Disruptions include shutdowns, production halts, warnings/citations, and labor accidents. Both are costly and time-consuming endeavors.

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Country Risk Scores Mapped and Explained

EcoVadis

These quantitative scores come from a number of international indexes identified by EcoVadis as reliable metrics that cover relevant sustainability topics around the world. Highlights of most recent update: Eight countries increased their risk level this includes Chile, Greece, Hungary, Turkey and South Korea. to be high risk.

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Saving the Smart City Future

Enterra Insights

Squires writes, “At the heart of the idea of a smart city is a network of interconnected sensors, cameras, and devices that are constantly collecting and analyzing data about a number of metrics — an internet of things, if you will. Squires reports that Seoul, South Korea, is developing a metaverse to help run its systems.

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A Global Push for R&D

Synovos

The index looked at several metrics, such as: the environment for innovation, education policies, and labor policies. South Korea tops the list followed by Germany, Singapore, Japan, Canada, Estonia, France, the UK and the U.S. It’s all based on a new index from The Economist magazine. The findings?