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Meeting Heightened Expectations in Managing Supplier Alliances

Expectations of supply chain functions continue to intensify. As organizations face rapidly shifting markets, quality/reliability concerns, sustainability demands, and natural disasters and regional instability, suppliers represent a key strategic resource for enabling responsiveness, innovation, risk and cost reduction, and corporate social responsibility. Supply chain functions and procurement teams must move beyond a cost focus in supplier relationship management to develop mutually beneficial, collaborative partnerships. -Marisa Brown, Senior Supply Chain Principal Research Lead, APQC

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Tesla's Electric Motor Shift to Spur Demand for Rare Earth Neodymium

Tesla’s shift to a magnetic motor using neodymium in its Model 3 Long Range car adds to pressure on already strained supplies of a rare earth metal that had for years been shunned because of an export ban by top producer China.

Dress for Success: Boeing, Ford Test Exoskeletons for Employees

Musculoskeletal issues account for 33 percent of all workplace injuries, quietly stealing worker quality of life and plant productivity. Major manufacturers from Ford to Boeing have found industrial exoskeletons sometimes are the best answer.

China’s War on Pollution Will Change the World

China is cracking down on pollution like never before, with new green policies so hard-hitting and extensive they can be felt across the world, transforming everything from electric vehicle demand to commodities markets.

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Apple Says Workplace Violations Rise Among Its Suppliers, but Overall Compliance Improves

Apple has reported an increase in the number of serious violations of working conditions at factories where its products are manufactured, but says that overall conditions improved.

Strategic S&OP Supported by Embedded Risk Management Tools & Techniques

For almost 50 years, the operations/supply chain profession has been embracing the sales and operations planning process to balance supply and demand in complex supply chain networks. As a former S&OP process owner for three Fortune 100 manufacturers, I can identify with the challenges associated with developing the process and sustaining it as well. With more and more tools emerging, especially supporting solid supply chain risk management, the future looks bright for strategic S&OP. -Gregory L. Schlegel, CPIM, CSP, Jonah, Founder, The Supply Chain Risk Management Consortium, Executive-in-Residence, Center for Supply Chain Research, Lehigh University

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Qatar Airways Responds to Blockade by Middle Eastern Neighbors by Adding New Routes

Akbar Al Baker, chief executive of Qatar Airways, has never shied away from a fight.

Trade War Prospect Shakes Part of Trump Base: Midwest Farmers

Snow and sleet were falling on Eldon Gould’s 500 acres last week, but he was already looking ahead to planting season; depending on ground conditions and the temperature, that could be just several weeks away.

Success May Turn on Redesign of Decision Support

While over 80 percent of companies have demand and supply planning, success has the same probability as a flip of a coin. How do companies improve the odds? Success may lie in the redesign of supply chain planning from the outside-in using cognitive planning. -Lora Cecere, Founder, Supply Chain Insights

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Blockchain Comes to the Freight Industry

Transportation providers are jumping on the blockchain bandwagon in a big way.

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The Battery Will Kill Fossil Fuels — It's Only a Matter of Time

Three weeks ago, a U.S. agency sent the clearest signal yet that fossil fuels’ days are numbered.

Asia-Pacific Nations Signed Sweeping Trade Deal Without U.S.

Eleven countries including Japan and Canada signed a landmark Asia-Pacific trade agreement without the United States on Thursday in what one minister called a powerful signal against protectionism and trade wars.

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