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Navigating This Year's Biggest Challenges, Opportunities in Global Trade

Christian Pedersen, head of ocean product and revenue management at Maersk, discusses the uncertainty created by trade tensions between the U.S. and its global partners.

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Building the Supply Chain of the Future Starts (and Ends) With Talent

With U.S. labor markets tightening and the persistent need for supply chains to operate at lower costs, supply chain executives will need to address serious capability challenges.

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It’s Time to Test Your Supply Chain Disaster Recovery Plan

Here are seven key steps.

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Trump Versus Xi Battle Has More Suppliers Shifting From China

While Chinese and American officials enter heated trade negotiations this week, companies that have built the technology industry’s global supply chain aren’t waiting to see how the talks turn out.

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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.

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Ford Partners With Amazon to Enable Package Deliveries to Trunks

Ford follows General Motors and Volvo in joining with the online retailing giant to offer Key by Amazon In-Car delivery service.

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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.

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Amazon One-Day Shipping Is a Tough Perk to Match

Amazon’s announcement registered loudly in the halls of its competitors: e-commerce companies and old-line retailers that will now have to start investing just as furiously to keep up.

An Amazon.com Inc. fulfillment center. Photo: Shutterstock.

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

Podcast | Don’t Stop Your Startup! Negotiating Tips for Entrepreneurs

Poor negotiating skills can doom even the most promising startup.

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Amazon Pledges One-Day Delivery for Top Clients in U.S.

Amazon.com Inc. will spend $800m in the current quarter to reduce delivery times for top customers to one day from two, trying to revive its main e-commerce franchise and ward off greater competition.

Source: Bloomberg

Walmart Creates an Angus Beef Supply Chain, Bypassing Tyson

The nation’s biggest grocer has partnered with a Texas cattle rancher and other industry-related businesses to provide a steady supply of no-hormone-added Angus beef to 500 of its U.S. stores.

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How a Leading U.S. Floral Distribution Company Reduced Warehouse Labor Costs by 45% with RFID

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