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Renegotiating Costs With Existing Suppliers: A Guide

Here's how to start cutting expenses, while improving supplier relationships.

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How Technology Provides a Crucial Link in Ethical Supply Chains

With companies relying increasingly on complex global supply chains, their need for verifiable manufacturing ethics and supplier transparency is growing.

0310 The Global Supply Chain

How Savvy Retailers Will Tackle the 2020 Holiday Season

As retailers begin to land on their feet and steady themselves from COVID-19-related shutdowns and downturns, the holiday season is quickly approaching — and with it, many uncertainties tied to the future of their businesses.

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How Manufacturers Are Using Automation to Manage the E-Commerce Boom

Shippers and manufacturers are coping with the pandemic-fueled online shopping boom through the use of low-code automation.

0930 Low Code Automation

In the Pandemic, Factories’ Commitment to Human Rights Is Slipping

As if damage to people and supply chains by the coronavirus pandemic and economic freefall weren’t bad enough, add to it the greater difficulty of monitoring human rights violations in distant farms and factories.

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Four Ways to Streamline Business Processes to Reduce Risk

Left unchecked over time, inefficient payment processes lead to considerable waste and security risks.

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These Systems Are Driving the Future of Logistics

Transportation management systems will play an increasingly important role in mitigating the challenges brought by e-commerce, according to a group of more than 350 shippers.

Source: Bloomberg

How 5G Can Address Shifting Market Dynamics

The need for broadband capacity is booming as more people work and shelter at home.

A sign reading '5G' sits at Verizon Communications Inc.'s 5G tech showroom and production studio in London, U.K. Photo: Bloomberg.

Three Ways to Navigate Uncertainty With a ‘Zero-Based’ Supply Chain

Companies can identify untapped value by applying zero-basing to every part of the supply chain.

0807 Talent Recruitment

Boosting Manufacturing Efficiency During COVID-19

Manufacturers seeking to adapt to the current moment have a wide range of options.

0922 Manufacturing

Viewing the Coming Weeks Through a Crystal Ball, Darkly

For shippers, carriers and consumers, was there ever a time when the near future seemed as uncertain as it does today?

Source: Bloomberg

Crafting an Effective Clinical-Supply Strategy for the Post-Pandemic Landscape

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented disruption to drug development.

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