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Building the Business Case for Supply Chain Risk Management

GlobalTranz

That’s when it all gets extremely complicated, but one thing remains crystal clear: supply chain risk management is profoundly important for businesses to grow and expand. Without a doubt, managing supply chain is nothing but easy. Its scope is extensive and spans all areas of the supply chain.

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2023 Supply Chain Priorities, Perceptions, and Initiatives – Preliminary Results

Logistics Viewpoints

Our preliminary findings suggest that supply chain resilience has been increasing in importance over time, but still remains secondary to the end goal embedded in the perfect order metric – the right product, to the right place, at the right time. However, supply chain resilience is more than just a concept to practitioners.

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Global Supply Chain Volatility Continues to Moderate But Not Inventory and Warehousing Costs

Supply Chain Matters

On the other hand, transportation metrics continue their slowed pace, reaching the second highest level of capacity growth, and the third fastest rate of price contraction in the history of the index. Interestingly, Transportation Utilization is the outlier here, as both utilization metrics in the index were up significantly in September. ”.

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Reports of Easing Global Supply Chain Volatility in July

Supply Chain Matters

Interestingly, the downshifts we observed in transportation metrics were much more muted in the last week of July, leaving open a possibility for a bit of recovery as we move towards peak season. Warehousing and Inventory metrics continue to buoy the logistics sector.

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Top 3 Challenges Facing High-Tech and Semiconductor Supply Chains

Resilinc

In the meantime, their product will be sitting in a warehouse, and will have to manually call suppliers to get copies of purchase orders and invoices. Analyzing the supply chain after you’ve built it is important. It’s the same for shifting using a supply chain risk management platform.

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Know sooner, act faster and accelerate your supply chain performance!

Kinaxis

Prioritized action lists based on impact to your customers or whatever key metrics drive your business can ensure that planners are working on what matters. The post Know sooner, act faster and accelerate your supply chain performance! appeared first on The 21st Century Supply Chain. Act Faster.

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5 Future-Proof Supply Chain Technologies

American Global Logistics

Data-based decisions can affect all aspects of your supply chain. They can influence performance measures, financial metrics, and customer service. BI and DA also support improved supply chain risk management (SCRM). And the better use of data leads to better decisions.