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The One Key Shift in Your Supply Chain and Procurement Strategies that can Drive Better Business Continuity and Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

In today’s dynamic and unpredictable business environment, companies face various challenges such as changing consumer demands, global uncertainty, and the impact of natural and man-made events. All the products and services purchased by procurement and supply chain organizations can be categorized into this two-by-two matrix.

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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

Logistics Viewpoints

Buying organizations use this technology to monitor and analyze supplier risk events in real-time. These are big data platforms that monitor news sources and assorted databases from governments, financial institutions, ESG NGOs, and other sources to detect when a negative event has occurred or may be about to occur. Of course it would!

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Autoliv’s Supply Chain Risk Management Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

in turn, is a boutique procurement consultancy. Professionals from procurement, compliance, logistics, sustainability, information-security and several other internal stakeholder all use the solution for different reasons. This intermediate step is more related to Procurement and supply chain transparency. Any final thoughts?

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Freight Benchmarking: What Is It? Why Do It?

Logistics Bureau

The answer is to benchmark your freight, of course. The benefit of this is that you’ll be in a more proactive state when unforeseen events or crises arise with minimal warning. Alternatively, you can procure access to a digital freight benchmarking platform. The Pros and Cons of Procuring a Benchmarking Tool.

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What Could Crush Your Supply Chain and Jeopardize Your Business This Year?

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." - Sean Henry, CEO Patching Together Supply Chain Elements "I believe the secret is out - companies for years have skirted by with sub-optimal supply chains, limited visibility, poor partners and inflexible tools, and then struggled to patch all these together to serve their end customers.

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How to Get a Job in the Supply Chain Sector

Logistics Bureau

You are not alone, especially as in the time since we first penned this article, one huge and unforeseen event has raised awareness of the global importance of this vital sector—and shown it to be an attractive career choice. That event was the global COVID-19 pandemic, which erupted during the first half of 2020. Networking.

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Profitably Delivering eCommerce with Consumer-Centric Priorities

Logistics Viewpoints

Capacity can be easily ramped up or down due to product seasonality, holidays and of course global events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Supply chain technology investments were once delegated to a specific function such as procurement or logistics. making a fast return on investment (ROI) fairly likely ? and Unnu, Kaan. [2]

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