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Good-bye siloed, functional planner. Hello storm chasing network planner.

Kinaxis

2015 – Nepal earthquake, 7.8 For a small bit of good news, supply chain leaders know this and are putting strategies in place to deal with this new reality. They may be too busy looking at constraint challenges or alternate sources of supply. Let’s just look at some events: 2017 – Hurricane Irma (plus others).

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Five Lessons Learned in 2020 – and Where to Go from Here

Bristlecone

Nations and business leaders are realizing there must be an avenue for the basics to be sourced and produced within their own geographical reach. . It’s a good idea to look at a balanced de-coupling strategy – creating a balance between globalization and localization.

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Mindmap High-Tech Supply Chain 4.0

Supply Chain Movement

The sourcing department is challenged by increasing compliancy issues. In order to create the required agility hightech companies need to apply a postponement strategy with customization per country and on demand 3D printing. Mauritania. Micronesia, Federated States of. Moldova, Republic of. Montenegro. Montserrat. Mozambique.