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Visual Mapping of Supply Chain Risks Improves Response

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Supply Chain Transformation Critically Important, But Most Such Efforts Fall Short of Goals

Across almost all sectors and regions, companies face unprecedented disruption. The competitive advantages that once gave companies a defensible position - their product lineup, scale or legacy position - are no longer as secure as they were. Some upstart with a newer and more agile operating model will start taking market share - if it hasn't already.

Redefining Supply Chain Management for Today's Reality

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E-commerce Boosts Sales, Potential of Wholesaler United Stationers

Its name suggests a narrow focus on office supplies, but United Stationers Inc. is far more than a wholesale distributor of copy paper, notebooks, pens and staplers. The $5bn-plus company also supplies janitorial and breakroom supplies, provides industrial equipment to the welding, oil field and building construction industries, and has a major - and increasing - focus on helping thousands of resellers sell online to their business end-customers.

You're Growing, But Are Your Suppliers Growing With You?

As the globalization, expansion and growing interconnectivity of supply chains make them more complex, businesses and their suppliers are faced with new challenges, with new opportunities for growth. Many top companies invest a vast amount of resources in innovation. This commitment to innovation drives growth as they compete to remain top manufacturers and service providers. However, many of these top companies are not reaching their full potential. Their businesses are innovating, growing, and developing, but many of their suppliers are not.

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Barriers to Implementing Supply Chain Innovation

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New Tenets of Transportation Revealed in Annual Study

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Refillable Bottle Touted as Creative Disruption That Consumer Packaging Needs

Replenish Bottling LLC has launched a sustainable product line that has the potential to change how many water-based consumer products are designed, manufactured and sold. The packaging technology can be found in a new line of concentrate household cleaning and personal care items sold under the CleanPath brand.

Just in Time for Holidays, 3D Printing Comes to Retail

Those watching the 3D printing category can now look beyond office supply retailers. Target is now offering 3D printing for small decorative and gift items for the holidays.

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Transportation Budgets: How to Talk About Them with Non-Transportation Professionals

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To Boost 'Factories of Future,' EC Promotes Re-use, Remanufacturing Projects

The European Commission has called for research projects that investigate re-use and remanufacturing, in a bid to develop the "factories of the future".

Manifesto Claims European Plastics Industry Unfairly Hobbled

The European plastics industry has published a manifesto alerting officials in Brussels to the many impediments it faces, and which it hopes will influence European Union policy.

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