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Sourcing Strategy: Effective vs Efficient with Ron Crabtree

The Logistics of Logistics

Sourcing Strategy: Effective vs Efficient with Ron Crabtree. Joe Lynch and Ron Crabtree discuss sourcing strategy: effective vs efficient. When developing a sourcing strategy, the focus can be effectiveness (gaining desired results) or on efficiency (reducing cost, labor, and resources used). About Ron Crabtree.

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Dispelling Untruths: 10 Generative AI Myths

Logility

It can learn faster than humans and is trained to process and analyze huge amounts of information based on training data, algorithms, and statistical models. Because of a personal relationship, the supply chain manager knows they can call their colleague from sourcing to lean on their vendors to get the shipments expedited.

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The 2022 Labor Shortage: 4 Concrete Tactics to Combat Employee Turnover and Source Staff

ToolsGroup

In one survey, 74% of those who hadn’t received upskilling or reskilling training would prefer to work for a company that offers those opportunities. Source: Fortune. #3: Source: Fortune. Retention: 48% of American workers would switch to a new job if it offered skills training opportunities.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 15 – 21)

Logistics Viewpoints

However, the largest supercomputer in the world for AI training has just been unveiled. employees will participate in training that would help them safely serve our customers if there is a labor disruption. employees will participate in training that would help them safely serve our customers if there is a labor disruption.

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Supply Chain Normalcy? Think Again.

Supply Chain Shaman

The global supply chain is built on three assumptions: rational government policy, availability of reasonably priced logistics, and low variability. Train teams to model variability and build a planning master data layer to understand layers of variability. (A Build in-market sourcing. Over four-hundred days of war in Ukraine.

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Responding to the 2023 IMO GHG Strategy

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The 2023 Strategy sets expectations on the development of future policy measures to strive for 30% GHG reductions by 2030, 80% GHG reductions by 2040, both relative to 2008 levels, and an overall level of ambition of reaching net-zero emissions as close to 2050 as possible. Social dialogue and training of the workforce is key.

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The Age of Agility: Building Resilience in the Supply Chain

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Border controls, China’s zero-covid policy and global shipping costs and energy prices is putting increasing pressure on supply chains throughout the Asia Pacific region. Multi-Sourcing. It most notably helps them react more rapidly to changes in demand, overcoming industry labour shortages and training issues.