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How is the Logistics Economy Holding Up?

Logistics Viewpoints

The World Trade Organization publishes lots of insightful data on global trade – including trade indexes. However, imports of industrial supplies appear to be declining. Output rose in 8 of the 29 nations for which data was available. The first pattern I noticed was an extreme decrease followed by an extreme increase in 2020.

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The Power of the Network: ERP vs. Spend Management

Logistics Viewpoints

Alex Zhong, Director Product Marketing at GEP. GEP and the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Supply Chain Resource Cooperative surveyed supply chain, procurement and IT professionals across a range of industries to gain insight into their priorities and strategies regarding supply chain resilience and optimization.

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Why Supply Chain Convergence is Critical to Greater Agility and Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

The pandemic has exposed flaws in business practices across industries, which have been acutely felt in their supply chain and procurement operations. Solutions for master data management. Alex Zhong is Director of Product Marketing at GEP. At GEP, he leads product marketing for the company’s AI-enabled supply chain solutions.

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Editor’s Choice: How the EV Boom is the Oil & Gas Market

Logistics Viewpoints

This article is from GEP and look at the impact of EV boom on the oil & gas market. According to IEA data, around 16.5 Note: Today’s post is part of our “ Editor’s Choice ” series where we highlight recent posts published by our sponsors that provide supply chain insights and advice. In 2021, consumption of gasoline stood at 8.8

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How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Contract Management in Telecom & High-Tech

Continual technological changes necessitate adjustments to manufacturing and supply chain processes, leading to a heavy volume of contracts that outpaces most industries. What can CPOs do to ease the contract management burden?

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A Radical New Way to Think About Supply Chain Management

Logistics Viewpoints

SCCN is a collaborative solution for supply chain processes built on a public cloud – many-to-many architecture – which supports a community of trading partners and third-party data feeds. In other works, based on the data in their internal systems and rather limited collaboration, they optimize their internal operations.

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6 Ways Big Data is enhancing the global supply chain

The Logistics Academy

As global supply chains become more complex and customers more demanding, the race is on to develop software applications that can effectively manage and make sense of the zettabytes of data being generated by our digital world. Of course, capturing the data and then using it to make good decisions are two entirely different things.