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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. Traditionally what we typically refer to as indirect goods are mostly in Category 4.

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Active Supply Chain Design: A Key Imperative for De Risking Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

To achieve these goals, corporate leadership must focus on two key areas: shift from internally focused supply chains to collaborative supply networks and actively design their supply chains. Inflation, pandemics, railway strikes, adverse weather events – the supply chain disruptions keep on coming. fall under this category as well.

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Types of Risks Impacting Supply Chains in 2018

Material Handling and Logistics

To look at what risks will affect the supply chain in 2018, Rob Savitsky of AIR Worldwide ( a member of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics Supply Chain Exchange program), wrote a blog for MIT discussing three broad categories of supply chain risk. Natural Catastrophes.

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Top Game-Changing Logistics Trends for 2024: Redefining Global Supply Chains

3PL Links

As the name implies, trend research looks to forecast future events mostly based on consumer behavior, which drives shifts in the needs, wants, and expectations of the market. Strategic API integration allows logistics organizations to get almost real-time data and updates about orders and shipments. Check out below: 1.

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Stop Bleeding Money with Outdated Freight Bidding Strategies

CLX Logistics

Soon, it’ll almost be a guarantee that if you’re not leveraging modern data analytics properly, you’re losing money or leaving it on the table. So, what are your competitors getting from modern data and analytics solutions that you’re missing out on? Procurement Event Strategies. Network Risk Assessments.

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Load Matching: Optimizing Logistics Efficiency in the Last Mile

Locus

In the absence of a centralized marketplace that facilitates seamless load matching, carriers and shippers rely on personal networks, referrals, or manual searches to find suitable matches for loads or transportation needs. This leads to limited visibility, difficulty in finding available capacity, and time-consuming negotiations.

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Impact of SMAC on Enterprise Software Applications - Infosys Blogs

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Product Categories. Cloud & Big Data. View all Infosys blogs. News & Events. |. The Infosys global supply chain management blog enables leaner supply chains through process and IT related interventions. 73% of adult Americans use one or other social networking sites. Infrastructure Outsourcing.