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Supplier Management and Digital Transformation Go Hand in Hand

To successfully digitize the supply chain, businesses must bring their suppliers along.

Three Ways E-Tailers Can Cut Shipping Costs for Shoppers

The pandemic’s impact on the global supply chain means holiday shoppers are getting higher than average “out-of-stock” notifications for items they want to purchase, while also experiencing price hikes and shipping delays. What to do?

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Four Steps to Building Better Supplier Relationships

It’s clear that we need a root-and-branch reimagining of supply chain models, to ensure that global trade can survive future crises like the one we’re enduring today.

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Localizing Your Supply Chain? Consider These Four Tips

Many organizations are shifting to localized sourcing, to overcome the delays and barriers that have emerged during the pandemic.

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How Digital Twin Technology Is Bridging the Manufacturing Talent Gap

The concept of the digital twin, in which an organization creates a virtual representation of its business operation, has been around in various forms for decades, but has undergone a tremendous shift in recent years.

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Revealing Supply Chain Secrets With a Not-So-Secret Source: The Public Web

External or alternative data is being deployed to help businesses and financiers navigate complex realities and uncertainties, and guide decision-making.

How Digital Transformation Has Left Power Stations Vulnerable to Attack

The digital transformation of operational technology (OT) for monitoring and controlling physical processes has introduced new blind spots and magnified others, making industrial control systems (ICS) susceptible to nation-state attacks.

Last-Mile Fuel Delivery Lets Truckers Skip the Gas Station

Cutting out fuel stops can save time, money and the environment.

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Global Water Supplies: The Most Serious Shortage of All

The high-profile but temporary unavailability of semiconductors and other industrial components is getting a lot more coverage these days than the chronic shortage of an even more vital resource: water.

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Steps to Bridge the Supply Chain Gender Gap

Here’s how organizations within the supply chain ecosystem can take progressive actions to help bridge the gender gap while providing an equitable workplace across all roles and levels for women and working moms.

How to Get Started With International Shipping

Borderless e-commerce has become a profitable option for large and small businesses alike, but the opportunities can be overwhelming.

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How AI Could Solve the Supply Chain Crisis

Artificial intelligence, combined with other technologies and innovations, could bring about some long-lasting improvement across the entire supply chain, from the factory floor to the retail shelf. Here are some scenarios.

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