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Friday, May 8, 2020 · Matthew Lekstutis and Sandeep Shah
You need a roadmap to move supply from China. Combined with a strong infrastructure in roads, modern factories and limited regulation, China's production meets insatiable demand from the United States and other countries for cheap goods.
Friday, May 8, 2020 · Yves Thill, Elouise Epstein and Sonali Agarwal
The full range of strengths demonstrated by leading organizations in the AEP (strategic focus, highly impactful organization, twice the average return) will be even more crucial in the difficult days ahead.
APQC and Supply Chain Management Review collected information in April 2020 from 86 supply chain professionals about the use and planned adoption of blockchain in supply chains around the world.
Product lifestyle management (PLM) solutions can help you to improve your processes, product, and ultimately quality. Read on to see if PLM is right for you.
Supplier Management has never been a more relevant topic for business - while it's impossible to predict the future, we can get better and faster at adapting to it
Procurement faces a dual challenge in 2020 – reducing both external and internal operating costs while at the same time adding value and becoming a better strategic advisor to the business, according to new Procurement Key Issues research from The Hackett Group, Inc.
As e-commerce volumes continue to grow and the prospect of supporting next-day and same-day delivery becomes more necessary, how can retailers continue to expand their e-commerce operations?
Procurement faces a dual challenge in 2020 – reducing internal and external costs while at the same time adding value and becoming a better strategic advisor to the business, according to new Procurement Key Issues research from The Hackett Group, Inc.
There's real margin and customer satisfaction sitting in those piles of returns over in the far corner of the distribution center. Now is the time to create effective processes to gain control of returns. By mid-year you'll be glad you did.
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.
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