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Sustainable Supply Chain — The Ultimate Guide

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Sustainable Supply Chain — The Ultimate Guide. The sustainable supply chain is adopted by many companies due to the increasing pressure to demonstrate greater environmental and social responsibility. However, how can companies demonstrate tier responsibility through the supply chain?

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Bringing It All Back Home – OTR TMS Supports Reversion to Regional Manufacturing

Supply Chain Collaborator

American manufacturers are adapting to significant modulation in the nature of their supply chains as market forces and current global events promote operating “closer to home”. Transportation logistics software solutions play a key role in effectuating this change. This strategy is not without its risks though.

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Top 3 Reasons to Deploy TMS Solutions in 2019

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There are three absolutely critical reasons to finally implement a new logistics IT solution (or to replace the inferior one you already have) in 2019. Contract rates remain high in spite of the potential for a cooling economy in 2019. Top Reason # 1 – Supply Chain Automation is Key to Competitive Advantage in Any Economy.

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Effect of Working With CNC Machines on your Supply Chain

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Whether you outsource or buy one, working with one of these machines will greatly speed up your supply chain. Thanks to CNC machine technology, traditional manufacturing supply chains are gradually disappearing. Machine parts manufacturing companies must rely on their supply chains to obtain and transport raw materials.

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Blockchain for Supply Chain: A Comprehensive Guide for Businesses

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Blockchain technology is revolutionizing the way businesses manage their supply chains. By providing a secure and transparent way to track products from their origin to their final destination, blockchain for supply chain can help increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve trust between suppliers and customers.

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2021 Supply Chain and Inventory Management Trends

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2021 Supply Chain and Inventory Management Trends for the US. Here we are, one year later, trying to determine the 2021 supply chain and inventory management trends to adopt. in May 2020 compared to May 2019, especially affecting exports from the US, Japan and the EU. Automation. Focus on eCommerce. Automation.

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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

Preview In his 2019 Foresight article, Niels van Hove examined eight technological hurdles that must be overcome to enable autonomous or ‘lights out’ supply-chain planning. He reasoned that to support such planning we need to implement a third wave of integrated supply-chain planning software. Key Points.