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Vendor Resilience Crucial to Avoiding Risk of Business Interruption, Study Says
As businesses increasingly rely on external parties for critical services, they become more vulnerable to business interruptions. This is especially true when such businesses know little about their third-party vendors' resiliency and recovery capabilities, according to PwC US, which examined the effects that vendor resiliency, or lack thereof, can have on an organization's business continuity strategy.
How to Protect Your Supply Chain From Cyber Crime
The risk of cyber crime hitting your supply chain is greater than ever before.
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Your Next Perfect Employee or Job Is Waiting
SupplyChainBrain and JobsInLogistics have joined forces in 2014 for the specialized purpose of:
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UK Manufacturers Lost Significant Amounts in Preventable Supply Chain Problems
Large UK manufacturers lost more than £58m in 2013 following a raft of preventable supply chain issues, including firms' failures to deliver goods on time.
Manufacturers Focus on Cost Reduction, But Ignore Energy Inefficiency, Report Says
Insufficient communication and too much emphasis on controlling factory capital expenditures means that manufacturers pay massive energy-inefficiency costs over the lifetime of their plants, according to research firm IHS.
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Managing Supply Chain Risk - That's for Somebody Else to Worry About, Right?
The recent occurrence of faulty ignition switches in General Motors cars should serve as a wakeup call to companies that lack good visibility into their global supply chains. But most have failed to implement adequate supply-chain risk-management programs that could head off such problems.
CPG Suppliers: Drowning in the Sea of Big Data
No doubt about it - consumer packaged goods companies are drowning in data today.
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Reshoring Is No Fad - It's Invigorating the U.S. Supply Chain Network
Many past decisions to offshore manufacturing were based on price alone. Today, manufacturers are looking at more than just price when considering sourcing decisions and production locations.
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Your Next Perfect Employee or Job Is Waiting
SupplyChainBrain and JobsInLogistics have joined forces in 2014 for the specialized purpose of:
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How to Get an Efficient Warehouse Without a Big Budget and High-Level Automation
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Boeing Continues to Push for Supply Chain Savings
Boeing suppliers are developing "a sense of acceptance" that the manufacturer's push for a 15 percent reduction in supply chain costs won't ease up even as the economy improves, an informal survey of several major suppliers by Canaccord Genuity finds. Whether the push will succeed remains to be seen.
European Banks See Importance of Supply Chain Finance, Study Finds
The importance and potential of supply chain finance as a line of business is increasingly recognised by the European banking community, according to the latest study by Demica, a technology specialist for working capital solutions.
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