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Friday, January 17, 2020 · Tan Miller and Bob Trebilcock
The outlook for global supply chains has never been more volatile. Four experts in trade and compliance look at ways to navigate today's choppy waters.
For the supply chains of the retailer, manufacturer or brand owner, returns are a once-neglected area that is growing into a major focus of supply chain managers who don't want to see their organizations lose their shirt taking back our shirts. As supply chain managers,…
Eleven years ago, with oil prices rising, it was easy to convince your company to save energy because it also cut costs. Without high energy prices, energy-efficiency may not translate to cost saving, so it will be harder to make the case to executive teams.
Only 20% of government buying is conducted through the long and cumbersome bid/RFP process, so companies can move swiftly through the pipeline to try and capture the 80% of government business secured through a variety of other procurement vehicles.
Monday, January 13, 2020 · Zac Rogers, Dale Rogers, and Haozhe Chen
With the rise in the number of returns and overstocks, secondary markets, like factory outlets, dollar stores and salvage dealers, have become an increasingly vital part of the product lifecycle. What's your secondary market strategy?
In Procurement we must understand where we are, what we can do, where we want/need to go and how to get there when it comes to “digital transformation."
“Digital Continuous Improvement & Procurement: Value Creation at the Intersection of Smart Automation and Advanced Analytics,” contains recent research finds that world-class procurement organizations that fully optimize their technology architecture and embrace smart…
Wednesday, December 4, 2019 · Brooks Bentz, contributing editor for SCMR.
This is Part 2 of a two-part series by Brooks Bentz on the impact of new fuel regulations that take effect on January 2020. Part I ran in the November 2019 issue of Supply Chain Management Review.
Most countries impose legal control on the export of goods from their jurisdictions, while international trade agreements often include additional regulations. However, failing to observe new laws and sanctions can have severe consequences for importers as well.
Monday, November 18, 2019 · Kevin K. Y. Chu and Juan Martínez
Working with a retail pharmacy chain in an emerging market, we have developed an inventory management model to minimize total inventory-related costs for various forecast horizons.
This time of year brings a fair amount of holiday season-related news, in the form of things like retail sales projections, volume predictions, shipping expectations, and many others. What's more, aside from the timing, one common theme that ties all these things together…
Wednesday, November 6, 2019 · Brooke Bentz, Contributing Editor
New regulations limiting the sulfur content of fuel used in shipping take effect on January 1, 2020. Yet only a small portion of the 51,000 ships in the global fleet already burn compliant fuel. Will the cost of fuel spikes cause you pain?
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