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10 Supply Chain Improvement Essentials for Your Company

Logistics Bureau

And for supply chain improvement specifically, using the right technology in your business can give you the competitive advantage over other companies. Many companies are undergoing a digital transformation , switching from manual processes to automating routine tasks.

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How Autonomous Delivery Vehicles Are Redefining Last-Mile Logistics

Logistics Viewpoints

Strategic Benefits For companies that integrate autonomous delivery vehicles into their operations, benefits include: Cost Savings: Autonomous vehicles reduce the reliance on human drivers, which can significantly lower labor costs. Companies need to work closely with regulators to navigate this evolving landscape.

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Navigating the Complex Landscape of ESG and Forced Labor Regulations: Insights from IBM’s Conference

Logistics Viewpoints

In an era of endless voluntary disclosures and increasing emissions reporting regulations arising across the globe, international companies are playing regulatory twister. This discussion illuminated the tough reality that many companies are currently navigating a regulatory maze.

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Ethical Considerations in Supply Chain Compliance

Logistics Viewpoints

Companies that prioritize low costs at the expense of ethics risk damaging their reputation, losing consumer trust, and facing legal consequences. In an era where information travels fast, companies must proactively disclose their practices, achievements, and challenges.

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3 Essential Supply Chain Tools to Combat Inflation

As inflation and geopolitical instability worsen, many companies are going slow on investments. Here are 3 tools that GEP recommends for your company to use. But investing in supply chain and procurement technology will help manage inflationary pressures better.

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Faced With Complex Challenges, Life Sciences Companies Must Embrace Digitalization

BlueYonder

Today, life sciences companies face an entirely new competitive landscape. In addition, many companies lack the real-time visibility and collaboration needed across internal functions, as well as across multi-tier supply chain networks, hampering their ability to adapt strategies in real time wherever and whenever market forces require.

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No Balloons Needed: Practical Moves to Navigate Tariff Volatility

Logistics Viewpoints

Trade policies are constantly evolving, forcing companies to assess how these changes impact customer demand, supply networks, fulfillment strategies, and cost to serve. Theres no shortage of commentary on how companies should respond move production, shift suppliers, and reconfigure operations are just a few common recommendations.

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Brace for Impact. Unpredictable Tariff Disruptions Are Here––Your Playbook

Drawing on our work with global companies across manufacturing, automotive, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, software, technology, financial services, and a range of service industries, we outline the key strategic and tactical actions companies are taking to navigate this period of heightened uncertainty.

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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. This is essential reading for all procurement and supply chain leaders.

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Next-Generation Fulfillment Strategies and Operating Models: A Strategic Playbook

Faced with many fulfillment constraints and older operating models that can’t keep up, companies must look to the future. Download this GEP playbook to learn more about the next generation of fulfillment strategies and operating models.

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Resilience and Sustainability in the Cost-Plus World

How can companies mitigate risks and build supply chain resilience? Almost 69% of businesses fear they’ll lose 10% of their revenues in 2022 due to supply chain disruptions, according to a GEP sponsored report from The Economist. Find out how!

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How a Fortune 500 Company Transformed its Supply Chain Using a Digital Twin-Enabled Control Tower

Supply chain plays a crucial role for this Fortune 500 automotive manufacturer. With the onset of COVID-19 in 2020, along with demand and supply fluctuations in the subsequent years, many manufacturers, including this one, saw significant stress on their global supply chains.

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CIO: Here's Why Analytics is Eating the Supply Chain

Life science companies are adopting innovative cloud technology to provide a single source of truth for end-to-end supply chain decision-making.

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Hadoop and the Modern Data Supply Chain

With the advent of Big Data, companies now have access to more business-relevant information than ever before and are using Hadoop to store and analyze it.

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Going to Market Smarter in the New Economy

The fight to find new customers and retain existing ones is the biggest business challenge for many companies. In 2022, as companies continue to move more functions online, employees will take a more virtual -- and flexible -- mindset and lifestyle in parallel to the digitization of businesses.