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Polycrisis, Antifragility, and What’s Missing from Digital Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

Digital transformation in a time of polycrisis Supply chains are no strangers to disruptions, like the recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria, but polycrisis is meant to describe interconnected impacts of crises with repercussions rising to a much more serious level. Digital transformation is no longer optional.

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Top 10 TikTokers to Take Off your Supply Chain

SCMDOJO

With a focus on the logistics and supply chain niche, the account’s diverse TikTok content is a wellspring of knowledge, facilitating improvements in inventory management, warehouse operations, and transportation efficiency. The account offers valuable insights on supply chain management, logistics, and inventory control.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2016

Talking Logistics

How will transportation, inventory, and sourcing policy decisions change in light of this cheap oil environment? Like oil prices, interest rates impact supply chain policies and decisions, especially with regards to inventory. Will interest rates continue to climb in 2016, and if so, what impact will it have on inventory levels?

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10 Things to Consider in the Global Economy

NC State SCRC

What is remarkable is that 53% come from Somalia, Syria, and Afghanistan. Slowdowns in the economic growth of Brazil, India, and China is having an impact on commodities, especially on agricultural commodities, due to demand decreases and increase of supply, which means that inventory is growing. Labor arbitrage- labor costs and mfg.

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I Will Be Wrong Again: Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2017

Talking Logistics

The answers to those questions and more could significantly impact supply chain strategies, everything from sourcing decisions to network design, which is why my prediction from two years ago — that more companies will start treating Supply Chain Design as a continuous business process — is now a critical necessity.