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How Europe is Coping with Supply Chain Disruption

Jaggaer

Define your procurement response strategy. Many countries have closed shops for non-essential and discretionary purchases, and even where they are open, consumers may be cautious about venturing to the high street, preferring to shop online. Adapting to the present and future challenges of COVID-19.

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Top Considerations Around Reshoring in Today’s Supply Chain

QAD

When people think about supply chain, purchasing is usually the first thing that comes to mind, but all of your enterprise’s operations fall under the same umbrella. That includes front-end forecasting and planning, procurement, manufacturing, logistics and import/export. The benefits of this practice remain clear today.

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2024 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains- Prediction Two

Supply Chain Matters

Opportunities to rethink and/or realign supply network strategies, buffer an over-reliance on China or single sourced deemed strategic suppliers, provided the context for augmenting added resilience and necessary agility needs. The beneficiaries have been India and Vietnam from an Asia perspective and Mexico from a near-shoring perspective.