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Revenge Festivities: How To Power Up Your Retail Last-Mile Fulfillment To Meet Soaring Demand

Locus

Fuelled by a strong return to normalcy, ‘revenge festivities’ is a simmering trend that picked up during this Navratri in India, leading to a 15% spike in FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) sales with kirana stores stocking up 18% more. Looking at South East Asia, Indonesia’s latest Real Sales Index (RSI) saw a 4.1% Talk to Our Experts.

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Supply Chain as a Service (SCaaS): A Golden Opportunity for the Supply Chain Industry

SCMDOJO

It involves outsourcing the entire supply chain function to a third-party provider who manages everything from sourcing raw materials to delivering finished products to customers. According to a paper by Len Prokopets and Ramin Tabibzadeh from Archstone Consulting , initial sourcing transactions can yield a 5% savings.

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Putting the Supplier Experience at the Forefront of Strategic Procurement

HICX Solutions

For the session, we were joined by Charlotte Anabelle de Brabandt , a representative of the Institute for Supply Management (IMS) and Ramit Mahajan , the Head of Supply Chain Enablement, India at Henkel. . We want to be best in class, but still it remains a mission to establish that easy process with a supplier.

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Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Wolfgang Lehmacher!

Supply Chain Game Changer

As President and CEO GeoPost Intercontinental, I was heading the global network and businesses in Europe, the CIS, the United States, Hong Kong, India, the United Arab Emirates, and Africa. I am living between three major economic platforms, the US, Europe, and Asia. Wolfgang Lehmacher. Currently, I am in Hong Kong.

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How to be Productive during the Global Lockdown: The ThroughPut Playbook to Maintain your Output Levels

ThroughPut

Government bailout money might buy well-connected businesses and specific verticals more time to survive, but not necessarily any additional output or leaner operations. The CDC website is the most accurate source of information on COVID-19. During this period, many corporations are trying to find ways to remain relevant in the market.

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Biden’s Executive Order on Supply Chain Vulnerabilities: A Reality Check…

NC State SCRC

Comparative advantage is also the reason why 90 percent of the world’s supply of PPE, electronics, apparel, and manufactured goods are manufactured in China and SE Asia. What venture capitalist is going to invest in a factory producing goods at a higher cost than what they can be bought for in Asia? That’s the way it would work.” [2].

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Apple’s China Problem

Logistics Viewpoints

These controls included a measure to cut China off from certain buying semiconductor chips made anywhere in the world with US tools. There were two excellent articles in the Financial Times (FT) on the Apple supply chain. Moving Final Test & Assembly to nations like India, which Apple is starting to do, is a band aid.

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