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Supply Chain Planning & Optimization

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India Scraps Plan for $602M Strategic Oil Reserve Top-Up

January 11, 2024
Bloomberg

Instead of buying at current levels the ministry is asking state-owned Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Ltd. to lease out empty underground storage to refiners and global oil majors.


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The Missing Link: Procurement’s Critical Role in Maximizing Reverse Logistics Efficiency

January 11, 2024
Anders Lillevik, SCB Contributor

When tech companies began offloading their reverse logistics businesses, industry giants with physical capabilities were waiting, eager to see if they could deploy those capabilities in-house.


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Orsted Partner to Sell Wind Farms, Take $1.6B Charge

January 10, 2024
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Eversource Energy is in exclusive negotiations to sell its 50% stakes in the developments to a “global private infrastructure investor,” it said January 8 in a statement.


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Watch: How to Optimize Production Planning for Repackaging

January 10, 2024
Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Mark Holmes, senior advisor for supply chain with InterSystems, lays out the challenges that manufacturers face in optimizing their repackaging processes, and proposes some solutions for addressing those hurdles.


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2024 Predictions: A New Era of Strategic Supply Chain Design

January 9, 2024
Donald Hicks, SCB Contributor

The time for pandemic-era thinking is over. This will be the year of strategic supply chain design — but companies must be shrewd in their technology and vendor selection.


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Navigating the New Landscape of Supplier Carbon Accounting Responsibility

January 2, 2024
Alexis Normand, SCB Contributor

A future is coming where environmental stewardship is not just a choice but an absolute necessity.


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India Plans to Expand Its Coal Power Fleet to Meet Soaring Demand

December 26, 2023
Bloomberg

The nation intends to add almost 88 gigawatts of new capacity by early 2032, a 63% increase from a previous plan published in May 2023.


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Over 1.3M Jobs Supported Through Supplier Diversification in 2023

December 22, 2023
SupplyChainBrain

 Companies generated $104 billion of income and $31.4 billion in tax revenues through diverse and small supplier spending over the past 12 months.


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White House Hosts First Meeting of Supply Chain Resilience Council

December 20, 2023
Polly Mitchell-Guthrie, SCB Contributor

While most supply chain disruptions have dissipated, continued challenges led to the White House giving supply chains another bump in the news cycle with its inaugural meeting of the Council on Supply Chain Resilience.


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For Supply Chains, Resilience Isn’t Enough. You Need to Be Antifragile.

December 18, 2023
Robert J. Bowman, Editor-in-Chief, SupplyChainBrain

Most corporate survival strategies are crafted to help businesses withstand any number of unanticipated supply chain disruptions. But how many are poised to profit from times of adversity?


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