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Achieving Supply Chain Resilience: Strengthen and Adapt Your Operations

Skill Dynamics

Mastering resilience enables businesses to uphold efficiency, reduce costs, and improve overall performance even when dealing with disruptions. This article will explore key strategies for building supply chain resilience, and how Skill Dynamics can help support your business throughout this transformation.

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How Supply Chain Resilience is Vital in Warehouse Management

All Things Supply Chain

Today, businesses are constantly navigating a dynamic landscape filled with unforeseen challenges. Disruptions like natural disasters, labor shortages, and global pandemics can wreak havoc on even the most meticulously planned…

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Weathering Future Disruptions: 8 Steps to Building Supply Chain Resilience

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Ivalua Blog [ivory-search] Weathering Future Disruptions: 8 Steps to Building Supply Chain Resilience February 8, 2023 | | Manufacturing by Doug Keeley In the face of an unprecedented global crisis, Procurement stepped up to become a crucial driving force for business continuity. Create speed and transparency.

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Supply Chain Resilience – Four measures get supply chains into shape

All Things Supply Chain

The coronavirus pandemic has damaged many supply chains and, in some cases, even caused them to collapse altogether. Fewer incoming orders and delivery bottlenecks are forcing companies to critically review…

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How a Global CPG Leader Optimized $500M of Direct Materials Spend and Exceeded Savings Goal

A Fortune 500 CPG company partnered with GEP to improve end-to-end category management, optimize direct spend categories, and increase strategic focus on tail spend. The result was a year-over-year savings of more than 3%.

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Tariffs and Procurement (Part 2): Tariff management and building an action plan

Spend Matters

Tariff management is a strategic subset of direct materials management and sourcing that involves navigating and optimizing the complex costs and regulatory implications of importing materials and goods across borders. Tariffs essentially taxes imposed on imports and exports directly impact product cost structures.

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How Technology Can Make Supply Chains Resilient in a Post-Pandemic World

All Things Supply Chain

The need for real-time tracking, accurate and timely delivery systems makes supply chain management ripe for technological innovation. The pandemic has caused a significant change in how consumers and businesses…

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Elevate Your Supply Chain Resilience With Scenario Planning

Speaker: Robert Olszak- Vice President, Global Supply Chain Optimization, RGP

As a supply chain director, you want to ensure that your supply chain network can withstand any disruptions and be optimized for peak performance. The global logistics market is growing, and companies need to prepare for the next generation of supply chain management.

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Building Supply Chain Resilience in the Real World

Speaker: Kelly Barner - Co-Founder & Managing Director of Buyers Meeting Point, LLC

Global inflation is at record highs and the Great Resignation has given way to the Great Reshuffling, leading to uncertainty in talent markets. What will 2023 bring? Time will tell, but it is unlikely to be a return to the pre-pandemic normal.

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The Easiest Platform to Manage Shipments

The unprecedented changes in the last couple of years have caused disruption and flustered supply chain resilience. As a result, shippers are dealing with high freight costs, late shipments, lack of visibility, process inefficiencies, and other complexities.