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Logistics Viewpoints
MARCH 6, 2025
Companies leaning heavily on global sourcing? Theyre feeling the heat most, as sudden trade policy curveballs throw procurement plans into chaos. manufacturer I know saw their import costs jump overnight, forcing a rethink of a decade-old sourcing strategy. What Is Agile Procurement?
Logistics Viewpoints
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
The manufacturing sector is facing unprecedented volatility in global trade, with tariffs becoming the latest in a series of uncertainty drivers that are impacting virtually all industries. Manufacturing plants are deeply entrenched; tied to infrastructure, suppliers, skilled labor, and regulatory requirements.
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Logistics Viewpoints
OCTOBER 17, 2024
They noted the fact that companies whose leaders had supply chain experience took a more proactive approach to addressing potential supply-chain challenges, and in leveraging the supply-chain function to generate new business opportunities. They are no longer just vendors of goods and services.
Logistics Viewpoints
MARCH 24, 2025
NEW YORK & OTTAWA, ON March 24, 2025 Infor, the industry cloud complete company, and Kinaxis Inc. TSX: KXS) an end-to-end supply chain orchestration, today announced a new partnership that will deliver improved alignment of supply chain plans with business objectives and strategies for midmarket discrete manufacturing companies.
Advertiser: GEP
For global manufacturers, managing direct and indirect material spend can get very complicated very quickly. Multiple legacy systems prevent procurement from standardizing processes and tracking what they’re spending with each supplier.
Talking Logistics
DECEMBER 9, 2024
In a survey we conducted in October 2020, 91% of our Indago supply chain research community members, who are all supply chain executives from manufacturing, retail, and distribution companies, either Agreed or Strongly Agreed that the time had come to transform the traditional transportation procurement process.
Enterra Insights
APRIL 8, 2025
In fact, in todays ultra-competitive environment its global ecosystems that compete not companies alone. Nevertheless, the reality remains that strong partnerships and alliances are crucial for smart manufacturing, supply chain resilience, and overall competitiveness. Batteries are sourced from South Korea and China.
Speaker: Adam Robinson, Director of Marketing, Cerasis
We’ll address how automation in the supply chain will provide employees with the following: More Strategic Procurement. More Efficient Manufacturing as well as ability to fill the skills gap & make more strategic employees. Improved Picking & Warehouse Efficiency thanks to Picking Autonomous Mobile Robots & Voice Commands.
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Medical and pharmaceutical manufacturers have faced increasing logistical challenges over the past two years. This report, produced by Worldwide Business Research, explores the progress companies have made toward supply chain digitization and logistics maturity.
Speaker: Fernando Penteado, CPSM - Supply Chain and Logistics Executive, Global Markets Expert, and International Speaker
Now, as a variety of disruptive events cause supply chain challenges, companies are contemplating bold moves to keep business moving, including moving sourcing and manufacturing closer to home markets and maintaining a larger reserve stock to help manage the fluctuations in supply and demand.
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