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Supply Chain Optimization: Leveraging Integrated Scenario Planning as a Margin Multiplier

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Situation Companies are increasingly confronted with complex planning scenarios due to predictable events such as mergers and acquisitions, category expansions, supplier changes, and distribution evolution, as well as disruptive events including demand volatility, material shortages, capacity constraints, and logistical surprises.

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What is Supply Chain Resiliency?

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If your company’s supply chain survived 2020 and the disruptions of early 2021, it’s safe to say it has passed the supply chain resiliency test. Supply chain disruption has many sources: tariffs and trade disputes, natural disasters, pandemics, economic uncertainty and cybersecurity attacks.

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Overcoming Supply Chain Disruptions with Shanna Greathouse and Tony Nichols

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Overcoming Supply Chain Disruptions with Shanna Greathouse and Tony Nichols. Tony Nichols , Shanna Greathouse , and Joe Lynch discuss overcoming supply chain disruptions. Tony and Shanna work at CarrierDirect , a company that specializes in helping companies minimize supply chain risk. About Tony Nichols.

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Top 10 Practical Supply Chain Management Tips for Businesses

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Image source: Shipbob | Top 10 Practical Supply Chain Management Tips for Businesses Effective supply chain management becomes an increasingly important sector full of strategic opportunities and difficulties in an increasingly dynamic and complicated network. requires this cooperative integration.

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The Latest Challenges Faced by Global Supply Chains

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Global supply chains face numerous challenges impacting the efficient movement of goods and services worldwide. Disruptions and Resilience Natural disasters, such as pandemics (like Covid), geopolitical conflicts, and labor strikes cause supply chains to be vulnerable to disruption. Some of the key challenges include: 1.

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7 Tips For Building Supply Chain Resiliency

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Shortages of products from toilet paper to microchips during the coronavirus pandemic highlighted the value of supply chain resiliency, and the opportunities for companies that aren’t as prepared as they would like. By contrast, supply chains that are too lean may not have enough flexibility and redundancy to survive unscathed.

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How Disruptions like Coronavirus Test The Resilience Of Supply Chain Planning

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The virus continues to compromise supply chains and disrupt companies at a troubling rate, but a re businesses prepared from a supply chain planning perspective? . The era of globalization has enabled supply chains to be broader and more connected. First reaction s to the outbreak . questions.