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Supply Chains Need to Grow. Will They Find the Cash to Do It?

These are unsettling times for global business leaders. And nothing makes them more nervous than the issue of access to working capital and liquidity for growth.

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Improving Operations and Profitability With Cross-Functional Analytics

Analyst Insight: In today's rapidly changing technology and business environments, companies need agility and preparedness to make swift, profit-enhancing strategic and operational decisions. One powerful way to facilitate this is by using finance and risk analytics in the supply chain. Today few companies have enterprise-wide, cross-functional analytical capabilities, but leaders across most industries are developing their understanding of these valuable analytics. They realize they possess a tremendous amount of untapped data and they want to leverage the data with better analytics to optimize the supply chain and contribute more meaningfully to the business discussion. – Bob Bishop, Principal, PwC; Glen Goldbach, Principal, PwC; and Corey Gallon, Director, PwC

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'The Perfect Order': Why It's So Hard to Achieve

Companies today need to cut costs, speed up fulfillment processes and manage growth. All the while providing "the perfect order."

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How Consumer Products Companies Can Cope With Growing Supply Chain Complexity

The consumer products industry has undergone radical change over the past several years, rendering older methods for matching supply to demand ineffective. Consider some of the upheavals facing consumer products manufacturers today.

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How U.S.-China Trade Tensions Escalated Into a Global Trade War

A tit-for-tat battle among nominal trade partners goes global, and there's no sign of a peace treaty on the horizon.

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A Maker of Minibikes and Go-Karts Roars Into the U.S. With Domestic Production

Monster Moto, a producer of economically priced off-road vehicles, shifts from offshore production to domestic assembly, a move made possible by cutting its transportation and logistics expense.

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Infrastructure Funding Dilemma: Will the FAST Act Ever Get Out of First Gear?

Another ambitious program for fixing and expanding the nation's transportation infrastructure. With no clear way how to pay for it. Déjà vu strikes again.

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A Supply Network for the Amazon Age

The biggest companies by market capitalization 15 years ago were deeply rooted in the physical world. No. 3 Exxon sold you the gasoline to drive to no. 5 Walmart back in 2001. Even Microsoft, the no. 2 company, dealt largely in the OS and software for your notebook or desktop PC.

How Can We Save American Manufacturing?

American manufacturing is in need of a reboot.

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DHL, Huawei Enter Supply Chain Automation Partnership

Deutsche Post DHL Group and Chinese technology conglomerate Huawei Technologies are collaborating on a range of supply chain services for customers using "industrial-grade internet-of-things hardware and infrastructure."

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E2open and Steelwedge Join Forces to Deliver Collaborative Sales and Operations Planning

Supply chain operating network E2open has announced its merger with Steelwedge, a software company focused on sales and operations planning (S&OP) and integrated business planning (IBP). The combination will deliver a collaborative sales and operations planning tool that integrates information across multi-enterprise business networks, E2open says.

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For Trucking Regulation, It's a Foggy Road Ahead

GPS technology can tell a commercial trucker all about routes and traffic conditions. But when it comes to predicting the regulatory landscape, the road ahead is a lot less clear.

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