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Increasing Commodities Supply Chain Visibility Key to Better Ops
Whether information is unreliable, unavailable or held in secret, the lack of it means the supply chain is opaque — and not for the better.
Manufacturing
U.S. Inflation Projected to Keep Rising
Sourcing & Procurement
Material Shortage the Most Disruptive Factor in 2021
Sourcing Solutions
Small Businesses Impacted by Global Supply Chain Issues
Sourcing Solutions
How to Overcome Supply Chain Disturbances with Predictive Weather Analytics
Sourcing & Procurement
Strong Supplier Partnerships Are Key to Sustainable Procurement
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E-Commerce Solutions
The Direct-to-Consumer’s Impact on Supply Chains and Its Future
The L.I.N.K. podcast kicks of the new year with a deep look at the direct-to-consumer industry and its future. But first, the managing editor offers a refresher in the subject in today's column.
Automation
Partner Roundtable: Warehouse Automation
February 24, 2022
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From forecasting and inventory refill to visibility and end-to-end traceability, today’s warehouse solutions are designed to improve the way companies track and trace product. But, how else do these solutions optimize the warehouse?
Sustainability
What Will the Supply Chain Look Like in 2022?
This past year pushed the supply chain to its brink, which is heavily detailed in this December issue of SDCE. As managing editor of the magazine, I'm proud to see what we have overcome as an industry but I'm cautious on what the future holds.
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Automation
How Logistics Teams Can Up Their Game When Shipping Sensitive Items
Tech advances are improving what the service logistics companies can offer to those shipping sensitive items, even in a time of crisis.
Sourcing Solutions
The Outsourcing Conundrum – Insource, Outsource or Both?
The decision to outsource indirect procurement is not all-or-nothing. The key is to understand how to derive the most value from the outsourcing relationship.
Supply Chain Visibility
The Keys to a Resilient Supply Chain
It’s never too late to make the necessary investments in people, process, technology and information to enhance supply chain visibility and resilience.
Retail
Addressing Global Supply Chain Disruptions by Improving Returns Management
By fully integrating with other supply chain solutions, a single, purpose-built platform gives supply chain leaders and retail executives a way to streamline their workflows, manage complexities and provide more end-to-end visibility.
Retail
Reverse Logistics: The Return Rush
Reverse logistics will remain an increased area of focus around the globe as e-commerce continues to grow and demands heighten.
Manufacturing
How Retailers Can Use Returns to Soften the Blow from Supply Chain Delays
By investing in efficient returns processes, retailers can tackle today’s fulfillment frustrations while also setting themselves, and the planet, up for future success.
Software & Technology
Technology Trends Not Happening in 2022
A combination of factors will take until 2023 to resolve shortage issues through additional capacity, verification of real demand and the inflationary impact on consumer spending on products.
Manufacturing
How to Reduce Supply Chain Risk with 3D Printing
3D printing can transform production and be an integral part of the supply chain that many manufacturers don’t realize yet.
Retail
How Retailers Can Thrive Amid Post-Holiday Returns
Post-holidays are one of the biggest returns moments each year. Here's what retailers can do to shift gears and appeal to the 2021 shopper.
Emerging Technologies
3 Smart Factory Trends for Manufacturers to Embrace
Companies who make the choice to invest in smart factories will enable workforces to function more effectively in their environments.
Visibility Software
Continuous Global Risk Monitoring for Supply Chain Disruptions
Organizations that lack these systems completely will only be able to react to disruptions once they have occurred, and even those with systems that provide basic monitoring (but no information on impact) may lose valuable response time.
Manufacturing
Embracing On-Demand Manufacturing
Businesses need to ensure their supply chain requirements can deliver on speed, complexity and efficiency.
Manufacturing
7 Things Manufacturers Can Do Now to Mitigate Supply Chain Challenges
While the manufacturing and logistics industries adapt for the long term, here are seven best practices to help manage the chaos, prepare for the future and stay focused on customers.
Manufacturing
Bringing Transparency to Oil and Gas Supply Chains
Oil and gas companies need to be more operationally and environmentally efficient and adopt to modern digital technologies and techniques that can bring greater visibility to its supply chain.
Visibility Software
How Every Event in the World May Impact Your Supply Chain
Artificial intelligence and machine learning have provided the much-needed techniques to plan, predict and respond in real-time in the face of growing disruptions.
Sourcing Solutions
Why it’s Time to Optimize Hospital Supply Chains
A fully optimized supply chain – one that is resilient, flexible and proactive – is vital to ensuring your hospital or health system can survive any disruption or disaster.
Sourcing Solutions
How To Ensure Financial Stability in the Supply Chain When Changing Suppliers
It's critical for organizations to accelerate the supplier onboarding process and ensure relationships with new suppliers start off on the right foot out of the gate. Here’s how to make sure that happens.
Sourcing Solutions
Inflation Surges Affecting Retailers and Consumers
The survey revealed that the automobile, e-commerce, electronics and appliances industries were most likely to capitalize on inflation.
Visibility Software
Overcoming Supply Chain Management Challenges in 2022
Overcoming supply chain management challenges moving into 2022 will take a precise approach, forcing organizations to become more agile than ever before.
Manufacturing
More Sustainable Chemicals Replacing Synthetics
It’s critical for companies to future-proof their supply chains by adopting sustainable chemicals to maintain productivity and profitability, while being a force for good when it comes to combatting climate change.
Manufacturing
Do Supply Chain Disruptions in Solar and Cleantech Really Matter?
Dear manufacturing supply chain people, welcome to energy. Here's how supply chain disruptions materially impact cleantech sectors, including solar, batteries and automotive.
Manufacturing
Semiconductor Supply Chain Will Remain Vulnerable Without Advanced Packaging Capabilities
After more than two decades of outsourcing, the United States can design the most cutting-edge electronics, but cannot manufacture them.
Sourcing Solutions
Are Poor Supplier Relations Hindering Marketplace Sales?
There is potential to grow your business through exclusive access to trusted Chinese and global suppliers offered through supplier pay schemes, which will set your business apart.
Manufacturing
3 Ways Proposal Management Software Can Help Manufacturers Amid Supply Chain Bottlenecks
Proposal management software is a vital solution that can positively impact manufacturers and suppliers during these trying times.
Emerging Technologies
3 Tactics to Overcome Supply Chain Disruptions
To bolster supply chains and cash in on the estimated holiday sales growth, retail, manufacturing and logistics enterprises must rapidly rethink their strategies.
Manufacturing
Manufacturers Seek Adaptability While Investing Elsewhere
Supplier price increases and supply chain disruptions loom largest in manufacturers’ minds, with the lingering worker shortages also perplexing manufacturers, who ranked “finding enough line associates to staff my shifts" as No. 1 concern.
Sourcing Solutions
China’s Power Problem is the Supply Chain’s Problem Too
China will always be a critical element of the global supply chain, but the issues from the past 1.5 years and this most recent disruption have only served to intensify the sense of urgency to create greater supply chain resilience.
Manufacturing
How 3D Printing Metals Will Disrupt the Supply Chain
Over the past two years, additive manufacturing has emerged as an attractive alternative due to its unique ability to manufacture “on demand.”
Manufacturing
How Retailers Can Get Ahead of Supply Chain Issues Before They Start
There is no simple solution to turn around the health of global supply chains. But, by taking a few straightforward actions, you can mitigate risk, meet customer expectations and avoid surprises this holiday season.
Retention
Women in Supply Chain: Be On the Forefront of Strategy and Innovation
Cristin Livezey, VP, finance and supply chain, and Rebecca Haerter, director of supply chain at Full Compass Systems Ltd., detail the importance of being at the forefront of strategy and innovation in order to make a difference in the supply chain.
