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Survey Says: It’s Not Your Dad’s Supply Chain Anymore
Companies adopting an intelligent operations strategy to manage their supply chains will be in the best position to succeed in the future — if they have the right talent.
Daimler Warns of Supply Chain Risk From Switch to Electric Cars
Daimler AG, owner of the Mercedes-Benz brand, warned that a fall in demand for diesel cars and a switch to electric vehicles could force it to prop up its supplier base.
Amazon Threat Has Maersk Racing to Stop Clients Becoming Rivals
The world’s biggest container shipping line is trying to stop customers like Amazon.com Inc. and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. from becoming competitors in just a few years’ time.
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How Merck Is Building an End-to-End Supply Chain
There's no question pharmaceutical supply chains are complicated. Add industry and government regulations — topped with geographical complexities — and it's become more challenging than ever for multinational companies to get beyond node-to-node planning.
Collaboration 4.0: The Digital Revolution
As companies digitize and integrate their enterprise and implement advanced analytics, they are learning that collaboration is the key to market leadership. Collaborative channel relationships are transforming the buyer-seller relationship from transactional to strategic. Working together to integrate and share process information, partners experience performance improvement by focusing on the least landed cost at every point in the channel versus leveraging price. Regulatory compliance for track, trace and authentication can only be realized through digitization. -Rich Sherman, Senior Fellow, Supply Chain Centre of Excellence, Tata Consultancy Services
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Why Red Bull Changed Its Travel Buying Strategy
Travel buyers should start talking to their travel management companies (TMCs) now about how changes to flight booking technologies could impact them, Red Bull’s head of procurement has said.
Airbus Shows Off Its New Automated Delivery Drone Service in Singapore
Airbus is enthusiastically pushing into the drone segment — the company showed off its Alpha One drone taxi earlier this month — and now it has for the first time demonstrated drone-based package deliveries.
How Industrial IoT is Disrupting Supply Chains
Research into the "industrial" application of the Internet of Things finds unequivocally that IIoT is transforming supply chains. Most of the implementations have been by early adopters trying to get an advantage over their competitors. Projects have a number of different objectives, but typically fall into: more efficient operations; improved customer experience; or new revenue opportunities. -Dan Roberts, Senior Consultant, Cambashi Limited
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Introducing a Cryptocurrency for the Food Supply Chain
And so the cryptocurrency mania continues, in yet another form.
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Making a Crypto Utopia in Puerto Rico
They call what they are building Puertopia. But then someone told them, apparently in all seriousness, that it translates to “eternal boy playground” in Latin. So they are changing the name: They will call it Sol.
China Wants to Enter the U.S. Car Market, but a Rough Road Lies Ahead
Germany was first. It shipped the Volkswagen Beetle to the United States in 1949. It got off to a slow start only to be embraced by an enthusiastic American public.
Rising Freight Costs Are Weighing on Companies’ Profits
A number of U.S. companies told investors that rising shipping costs in recent months have cut into earnings.
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