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Global Supply Chain Management: Best Practices and Trends

HICX Solutions

Supply chain integration Supply chain software provides businesses with full supply chain integration by ensuring that the various supply chain segments communicate seamlessly. We’ll now further explore some additional capabilities emerging in the software space.

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The State of Supply Chain Management: An Interview with CSCMP’s Rick Blasgen

BlueYonder

still needs to make repairs and further invest, but in other countries, for example, there are no cold supply chains or distribution capabilities with extensive consolidation functions, or warehousing and transportation functions that are seamlessly connected like we enjoy for the most part here.

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100+ Supply Chain Crisis Statistics: Raw Materials, Covid-19, Labor Shortages, and More

ToolsGroup

28% of global retailers have tried to find alternative sourcing options due to supply chain issues (RetailNext, 2020). 58% of consumers would stop buying from a brand entirely after one to three supply chain delays or disruptions. Source: Consultancy.UK. Image source: Fortune. Supply Chain Dive).

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Resilient and Cost Efficient Supply Chains

Operations and Supply Chain Management

The authors say, however, that managers actually can reduce the risk of major disruptions while improving supply chain efficiency by taking certain steps, such as supply chain segmentation, to achieve both goals. Lake Forest, Illinois, industry supply company W.W.

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Secret Confessions of a Supply Chain Junkie

BlueYonder

There are tons of articles, white papers and blogs about today’s supply chain challenges: globalization, off-shore manufacturing, supply chain segmentation, big data, mobility, social media, price optimization, warehouse throughput, labor scheduling and in-store picking. The Future is Bright.

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Logistics Center of Excellence: Delivering Value to Organizations

Talking Logistics

Perhaps the most overworked word in the supply chain management lexicon is “visibility.” Yet it’s difficult to overstate the importance of a view into what’s going on in the supply chain. After all, you can’t source, make, move, store, deliver, measure or improve what you can’t see. Source: GEODIS.

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Conversation with the CSCO of Schneider Electric- Global Leadership in Action

Supply Chain Matters

Supply chain strategies include early adoption of a global supply network regionalization framework focusing on four key market demand regions ( Europe, China, North America and Rest of the World ) coupled with a supply chain segmentation approach that is aligned with product and supply network characteristics.