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Manufacturing Network Restructuring Is a Top Supply-Chain Risk for 2019

This year’s global trade tensions have forced new challenges and difficult decisions upon many companies — including tariff increases, shipping delays and complete restructuring of operations and manufacturing networks.

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Navigating the Multidimensional World of Trade in 2019

Introducing our first annual Regional Guide to Global Supply Chain Management — in which industry experts offer key insights about domestic and global challenges that today's supply chain professionals must consider and address.

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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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Forgers Are Forcing a $9Tr Business Into the Digital Age

In the high-tech world of financial markets, the continued use of paper receipts in trade finance looks arcane.

Source: Bloomberg

Pig `Ebola' Virus Sends Shock Waves Through World Food Chain

What started with a few dozen dead pigs in northeastern China is sending shock waves through the global food chain.

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Shaw Industries Embraces Global Planning with OMP Plus: A Case Study

Shaw Industries Embraces Global Planning with OMP Plus: A Case Study

U.S. Has Battery Problem in Race for Electric Car Supremacy

The U.S. push to challenge China’s dominance in the production and sale of electric vehicles has at least one weak link: Most of the raw materials needed to make the batteries are dug elsewhere.

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Coal Stockpiles Near Record Weigh on Power Prices Across Europe

Coal is piling up at ports across Europe, depressing both the cost of the fuel and price of electricity.

Pieces of coal stacked at a mining site. Photo: Shutterstock.

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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High-Precision Mapping Boosts Accuracy for Global 3PL

Challenge: A global third-party logistics provider (3PL) was looking for distance calculations between fixed locations to be used for cost analysis, bid response and rate quoting. The company also wanted predictive calculation capabilities for shipment delivery delays based on real-time traffic incident data.

China's Trade War Is Taiwan's Opportunity to Bring Cash Home

The tariff cross-fire has been seized as an opportunity by President Tsai Ing-wen, whose government last year started an “Invest Taiwan” campaign to lure companies away from China.

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