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Apple’s $500 Billion Investment in Artificial Intelligence

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Teams and facilities expected to expand are in Michigan, Texas, California, Arizona, Nevada, Iowa, Oregon, North Carolina, and Washington. The company aims to: Invest in Renewable Energy : Expanding the use of renewable energy sources to power its operations, reducing its carbon footprint. As part of this package of U.S.

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The Greenest Mile: Planning’s Role in Supply Chain Sustainability

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We must plan, source, make, and deliver differently for supply chain sustainability. These examples address the source, make, and deliver areas of supply chain. Similarly, increasing the efficiency of planning and reducing waste will lay a firm foundation for greener sourcing, manufacturing and delivery. Buffering creates waste.

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Why Supply Chain Convergence is Critical to Greater Agility and Resilience

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Many factors need to align for an organization to be able to source materials, produce a product and put it in the hands of customers. Of the professionals surveyed, 59% saw the gap between procurement/sourcing and supply chain to be a major disconnect, and the most pressing pain point.

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5 Lessons from the Desert for the Future of Supply Chain Resiliency

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The future of supply chain includes a return to dual-sourcing and other practices of redundancy to mitigate risk, but buffers don’t have to explode. Reducing reliance on scarce raw materials, reusing existing materials, and recycling those at end of life alleviates strain on sourcing in a constrained world.

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5 Supply Chain Collaboration Essentials to Mitigate Disruptions

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Experts from North Carolina State University and GEP conducted a survey on supply chain, procurement and IT leaders to determine their challenges and priorities, focusing on examining gaps in the supply chain. The post 5 Supply Chain Collaboration Essentials to Mitigate Disruptions appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Getting Started with AI in Supply Chain

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Instead of searching for and reading multiple help documents, the planner can simply ask for help in natural language and receive an answer that is a single, synthesized explanation of those sources in Portuguese (even if the documentation is in English).

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The Power of the Network: ERP vs. Spend Management

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GEP and the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Supply Chain Resource Cooperative surveyed supply chain, procurement and IT professionals across a range of industries to gain insight into their priorities and strategies regarding supply chain resilience and optimization. Networks and Sourcing.