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Capturing Business Value While Meeting Regulatory Requirements

Analyst Insight: An enterprise-wide global trade strategy increases supply chain cost and service performance for all trading partners and enables importers and exporters to comply with mandatory trade and security regulations. Companies that prioritize best-in-class global supply chain trade practices, maintain effective global transport / trade organizations and employ enabling technologies are the best positioned to capture the economic and brand benefits available in growing and changing global markets. - Don Anderson, Principal, Tompkins International

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So Your S&OP Initiative Isn't Working Out? Here's Why

A lot of companies are falling short in their efforts to derive full value from the sales and operations planning (S&OP) function. But the main reason for their failure might surprise you.

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Technology Is Tipping Point for Collaboration

Analyst Insight: As technology platforms become more sophisticated, affordable, secure and widespread, they are poised to become useful tools in spurring collaboration along the supply chain. In fact, when coupled with collaborative buyer-supplier agreements, it could become a primary factor that makes collaboration a reality instead of just an aspiration. - Kate Vitasek, faculty member of the University of Tennessee's College of Business Administration

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Dig In: Restaurants to See Cost of Beef Decrease as Much as 17 Percent

Reversing years of steadily increasing prices, the cost of beef is expected to decrease between 10 percent and 17 percent across all primal cuts in 2016 in what amounts to "the biggest story of the year" for chain restaurant operators, said DeWayne Dove, vice president of risk management for supply chain management firm SpenDifference.

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HighJump Unveils Vintners' Edge for the Omnichannel

HighJump has introduced HighJump Vintners' Edge, a cloud-based software suite designed to address the wine industry's omnichannel needs, from order capture to fulfillment and delivery.

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Fifth of Large Food Manufacturers Surveyed Know Little or Nothing About Their Suppliers

Food manufacturers across the globe have admitted failing to put in place basic safeguards to protect vulnerable workers in their supply chains - almost one year on from laws to stop slavery, child labor and unethical working practices.

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Time for Corporates to Wake Up to Realities of Human Slavery

It is the human rights abuse that everybody likes to maintain is not happening. But within corporate supply chains across the developing world – from the cocoa-growing lands of the Ivory Coast to the seafood sector of Thailand – human trafficking and modern day slavery is still commonplace, with people being made to work and live in appalling conditions with little or no pay.

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Suppliers Hear News Loud and Clear: Demand for iPhone Dips

Suppliers are feeling the pinch of slackening demand for Apple's iconic iPhone, while the shortfall in sales growth could also affect component prices.

CBX Software Partners With SGS on Retail Quality and Compliance

CBX Software, a provider of sourcing-management applications to the retail industry, has joined with SGS, the global inspection, testing and verification body, to provide an integrated sourcing, quality, compliance and supply-chain service.

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Principia Launches Analytical Tool for Building Materials Industry

Principia Consulting has launched SupplyBuilder, an online data application for the building materials industry.

Esker Releases Mobile App for Purchase Requisition

Esker, a vendor of software for automating document processes, has released Esker Anywhere.

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