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China Announces Export Controls on Five Critical Minerals

Exiger Perspectives

Mineral Uses Tungsten Artillery shells, armor plating, cutting tools, engine parts, airplane balancing weights. Tellurium Solar panels, thermoelectric devices, infrared optics, steel alloys, and rechargeable batteries. Bismuth Medical treatments, lead-free solder, cosmetics, flame retardants, and ammunition.

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Margin Without Markdown: Why Integrated Planning Is Retail’s Real Advantage

o9 Solutions

Full-price sell-through represents more than a performance metric for retailers; it’s also a test of how well the business is aligned from plan to shelf. With the right tools, retailers can set sales and margin targets based not just on past performance but on future potential, informed by predictive analytics and real-time demand indicators.

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State of the Industrial Manufacturing Industry: 2025

o9 Solutions

Delays in design, payment, or construction schedules are hard to manage with static tools, often leading to rushed orders or idle inventory. Labor shortages, unavailable tooling, and missed dependencies frequently lead to stoppages, overtime costs, and reduced OEE. Want to learn more about the Automotive industry?

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Trends in Logistics Technology, according to Gartner

Supply Chain Digest

Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. Please check out my blogs on the subject at www.zipxpress.net.

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1H 2025 Supply Chain in Numbers and Charts

Supply Chain Digest

One measure of the health of the US manufacturing sector is the US Purchasing Managers Index from the Institute of Supply Management. Using the right tools to do the right job is important and SCM is heavily dependent on sophisticated ERP systems to get right real data info ASP. growth for all 2025, 2.8%

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Gartner on what Execs were Saying at Its 2025 Supply Chain Conference

Supply Chain Digest

Gartner says, adding that “They are approaching the current environment from a data-driven analytical method that wasn’t nearly as prominent five years ago.” Using the right tools to do the right job is important and SCM is heavily dependent on sophisticated ERP systems to get right real data info ASP. Supply Chain Digest Says.

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To Plan the Supply Chain, or Not

Supply Chain Digest

Julie Leonard Marketing Director, Inovity Posted on: Jun, 27 2016 Using the right tool for the right job has always been a best practice and one of the reasons, we feel, that RFID has never taken off in the DC as exponentially as pundits have been forecasting since 2006. Please check out my blogs on the subject at www.zipxpress.net.