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Winning strategies for distributors and manufacturers during an economic downturn

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In this article, we will show you some of the most important steps and measures to equip your organization for an economic downturn and create opportunities to flourish even during an economic downturn. A reliable supplier network is also fundamental to ensuring you have the right stock to meet customer demand even in times of crisis.

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Ethics in Procurement – Simple, but Not Always Easy

Logistics Bureau

For example, how would you deal with the following situations in procurement? Another supplier guarantees lower supply prices that would re-establish the margins your company needs to meet its objectives. Read on for more about these examples in the text that follows. Stolen and black-market supplies are further examples.

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Walmart: 3 Keys to Successful Supply Chain Management any Business Can Follow

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is one of a growing number of big-box retailers building out their supply chains with distribution centers designed to meet the demands of online shopping. These are all examples of the effects production may have on the environment, in local communities, or on the people who grow and make what we sell.” Decades in the Making.

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COVID-19 and the 5 major threats it poses to global food security

World Food Programme Logistics

For example, it is believed that the survival rate of patients suffering from Ebola was affected by what healthcare workers call “preceding nutritional status” or the baseline nutritional health of people affected by the virus. link] This is an edited version of an article from WFP-USA. You can read the original here.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Attracting Millennials to Manufacturing: Understanding Millennial Experience in Order to Gain Talent

GlobalTranz

We also are including a great infographic on attracting millennials to manufacturing from Tooling-U at the bottom of this article. Unfortunately, the passion began to fall through when the oldest millennials entered the workforce in 2007 and saw a huge economic collapse in 2008. Economic Instability.

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Fueling Transportation Breakthroughs – Inbound Logistics

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He chose to make the leap, joining Breakthrough Fuel as its president in 2007. For example, back in our startup days, Craig Dickman and I would go on sales calls to major organizations. I attended a number of his classes, I became part of his advisory group, and we wrote some articles together. I have a great deal of passion.

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

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Gilmore Says… In a great example of the balance in this book, Sheffi notes the actual evidence of consumer preference for Green products is tenuous at best. In fact, after reading Sheffi’s examples, I’m surprised more companies haven’t been forced to be zealous advocates.