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Is Your Supply Chain Strategy Inside-Out or Outside-In?

Supply Chain Minded

Digitization has changed everything. It’s changed not only how we interact but how we make decisions with readily available information. This accessibility to information and organizations has flattened the playing field for every organization as they look to market and sell their wares.

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How This Plastic-Free Town Became Britain's First

Supply Chain Brain

The little white cloud looks and feels like a polystyrene packing peanut, but, Kavanaugh assures me, “it tastes exactly like a communion wafer.” After a wary nibble, I pop the whole thing in and notch it up as a snack. Kavanaugh’s packaging is made not of plastic but corn starch. If eating it feels like an act of faith, it is because there is a growing fervour in this Cornish seaside town.

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7 Best Customer Service Books CEOs Read

Supply Chain Opz

We evaluate books related to customer service based on sales rank, reviews/endorsement by leading business leaders and show you the best customer service books. Finding Best Customer Service Books When we talk about customer service, people will usually think about the hotel and tourism business or banking business where products are less physically or tangible.

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America's Trucker Shortage Is Hitting Home

Supply Chain Brain

And now this compression point is sending waves of pain through the supply chain from distributors and wholesalers to retailers and consumers in the form of fast-rising shipping costs. Even Amazon and its Prime members are feeling the pinch. This predicament was a long time coming. An aging driver population that continues to dwindle owing to retirement — combined with a lack of younger workers coming into the industry — is a problem that has been festering for 15 years.

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7 Leadership Themes for Procurement & Supply Chain Leaders in 2024

Procurement and supply chain leaders are presented with their fair share of challenges, with a host of tools and strategies to resolve them. That said, what’s the best path forward to leverage this year’s trends? In this recap of a recent GEP-WBR webinar, 7 Leadership Themes for Procurement & Supply Chain Leaders in 2024, GEP’s Pramod Sethumadhavan explores seven vital leadership trends that will help guide procurement and supply chain decision-makers.

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Scientists Use Artificial Intelligence to Discover New Materials

Supply Chain Brain

Metallic glass is essentially an alloy of the future. Normally, a few metals can be mixed together so that the ideal properties of each metal are ‘added’ together to make a ‘super-metal.’ Alloys tend to behave and look like metals and their atomic structure consists of rigid geometric patterns. Metallic glass, on the other hand, does not have a rigid geometric pattern, but instead, atomic structure which is disordered much like that of glass.

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A&D’s Ambitious Three-Year Timetable for Deploying Blockchain

Supply Chain Brain

Eighty-six percent of the A&D companies queried in the Accenture research say they expect to integrate blockchain into their corporate systems within three years. As part of an annual effort, Accenture surveyed 30 A&D companies, encompassing original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) as well as tier 1 and 2 suppliers. They were part of a larger report, Accenture Technology Vision 2018 , which covered 18 industries.

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What is the Best Customer Service Book?

Supply Chain Opz

We will show you best customer service book by objective evaluation based on sales rank, reviews, citation counts and endorsement by leading business leaders. Background When we talk about customer service, people will usually think about the hotel and tourism business or banking business where products are less physically or tangible. However, customer service is actually a lifeline of any business, for example, - In some industries such as steel, chemicals and other heavy industries, products

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What is the Best Negotiation Book?

Supply Chain Opz

Here we evaluate 2 books, namely, "Getting to Yes" and "Influence" based on 3 main criteria and will show you which one is the best negotiation book of all time. Background In our opinion, there are 2 major negotiation approaches, namely, law school approach and psychological school approach. Both approaches are equally valid and accepted by business professionals.