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Wielding the Supply Chain as a ‘Competitive Weapon’
Business theorists have been talking up the concept of supply chain as a “competitive weapon” for so many years that if it were really happening, they’d have a well-stocked armory by now.
0506 Wieldingthe Supply Chain
Transforming Your Supply Chain Into an Opportunity Center
Last year, supply-chain disruptions hit a record high, with North America at the top of the list as the most affected region.
0503 Transforming Your Supply Chain
‘One Hundred Lost Minutes’: The Hidden Productivity Cost in Logistics
Imagine that a logistics company learned that a concealed flaw in truck engines was costing up to 100 minutes in lost productivity with every incident – and that the number was continuing to rise.
0718 Americas Trucker Shortage Is
Three Ways Procurement Teams Can Reduce Enterprise Costs
A 2014 Deloitte survey found that 69 percent of chief procurement officers saw cost reduction as their main priority over the following 12 months. In 2018, the same survey showed that the number had jumped to 78 percent.
0501 Three Ways Procurement Teams
Five Things to Know About Hiring a Car-Shipping Company
When it comes to car transportation services, considerations of price and quality are key. No one wants a car with scratches, paint chips and dents when it arrives.
0430 Hiringa Car Shipping
You Can’t Go Slow: Welcome to the World of ‘Blitzscaling’
Imagine yourself at the head of a company that’s on the brink of dizzying growth — a 50-fold increase in employees, and 300 times revenues — within the next three years. Would you be excited or scared?
Source: Bloomberg
Put an End to Data-Management Woes in Your Supply Chain With MDM
As supply-chain design and management struggles to live up to modern-day business imperatives, enterprise decision makers have turned their gaze toward the inefficiencies plaguing it.
0426 Putan Endto Data
Six Tips for Optimizing Packaging in a Complex Retail Environment
Over the past decade, the retail industry has undergone a drastic makeover.
0423 Six Tipsfor Packaging
Wearables in the Workplace: A Boon for Safety, or Intrusion on Privacy?
It’s been a rocky start for high-tech wearable devices for the consumer. But the supply chain offers a more fertile ground for growth.
0422 Wearablesinthe Workplace
Why Supply Chain Technology Needs Blockchain
There is a tremendous mismatch in the selection of appropriate technologies to automate complex and decentralized operations.
0417 Why Supply Chain Technology
Shipping Industry Isn’t Ready for Looming Low-Sulphur Fuel Requirement
The “IMO Scramble” isn’t the name of a new breakfast dish at a fast-food restaurant. It describes the plight of ocean carriers, who find themselves woefully unprepared for a new mandate on switching to cleaner-burning fuel.
0415 Shipping Industry
Unraveling the Complexities of Anti-Bribery and Corruption Laws
When it comes to eliminating bribery and corruption from your supply chain, who is this “foreign public official” that you have to worry about?
0408 Unravelingthe Complexitiesof
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