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Three Procurement Pro-Tips to Optimize Inventory, Cash Flow
Soaring customer demand has created unique challenges for procurement managers. By developing effective inventory management techniques, procurement professionals can tackle the issues from several unique angles.
A close-up view of two colleagues reviewing data on a digital tablet. Photo: Shutterstock.
How the Returns Industry Can Reduce the Impact of Supply Chain Disruptions
The Promise of Digital Twins and Smart Contracts
Despite numerous advances in plant automation, operating companies today continue to struggle with inefficiencies across supply chains that provide material, equipment and the services required to operate and maintain their facilities.
Port Automation Is Hot-Button Issue in West Coast Labor Talks
While all parties have expressed confidence that an agreement will be reached between dockworkers and employers without disruption, they conceded there will be “difficult” issues. Among these are certain to be the wrangle over automation.
Gene Seroka, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles, speaks at an industry conference. Photo: International Transport Forum.
From Disorderly Data to Supply Chain Insights: A Five-Step Plan
In recent years, companies have heavily invested in tools to collect and create new data sets. Yet they continue to face challenges in translating that data into valuable business insights that lead to supply chain improvements.
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The ‘Vested’ Approach: A Better Way to Outsource
The pressures on supply chains remain enormous, leaving many supply chain professionals with a key question: Is there a better way to work with suppliers, including critical outsourcing partners such manufacturers and third-party logistics providers?
Two colleagues negotiate a contract. Photo: Sora Shimazaki/ Pexels.
Shanghai Supply Chain Crisis Makes a Case for AI
The closure of supply chain operations in China is yet another blow to an already fragile global supply chain. More will follow.
An aerial view of the Port of Shanghai in Shanghai, China. Photo: Getty.
Seeing Beyond the Unforeseen: Dodging Supply Chain Disruptions
Is it possible for a manufacturer to find secure footing in a world that seems to be shifting daily?
Fate of U.S. Chipmaking Looks More Like Fantasy
A talent shortage and other factors make reshoring of American chip manufacturing unlikely, at best.
A detail of a silicon wafer is shown on the production line. Photo: Getty.
Five Differences Between U.S. and European Online Returns Habits
Returns remain one of the hardest parts of logistics to master for a retailer or e-commerce company.
A woman tries on clothes in her bedroom. Photo: Liza Summer/ Pexels.
Could Data Standards Solve the Supply Chain Crisis?
A lack of data sharing is one of today's most glaring issues in supply chain management. But just as important is that every stakeholder is on the same page — working with the same kind of data at the right time.
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Will Truckers’ Protests Be the Thing That Finally Breaks Supply Chains?
The slew of protests earlier this year by U.S. and Canadian truckers against COVID-19 protection measures caused some annoying traffic jams in a handful of cities. But whether they signal a serious, long-term threat to an already-challenged supply chain is questionable.
Demonstrators gather as rows of trucks sit parked during a protest near Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Photo: Bloomberg.
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