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BD Achieves End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility

Logistics Viewpoints

Ever since COVID hit, supply chain executives have embraced supply chain risk management. Within this discipline, one of the toughest challenges is how to get visibility to problems arising across the extended supply network. Supply Chain Chaos is the New Norm. Then multiply by 10 for the Tier 3.”

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Build Resilient Supply Chains That Weather Disruptions 

Logility

Truly resilient supply chains can only be built with complete visibility. The COVID-19 pandemic may have been the catalyst for the ongoing supply chain crisis, triggering economic slowdowns, layoffs, and production stoppages, but it is certainly not the whole cause. Recent Supply Chain Disruptions.

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The coronavirus supply chain

Supply Chain Movement

The media coverage of supply chain has increased exponentially as a result of the coronavirus epidemic in China, South Korea and Italy. All companies that produce and ship tangible goods are currently working hard to assess the impact of the outbreak on their own supply chains.

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Should the Supply Chain Profession Adopt Ethical Automation?

MIT Supply Chain

Automation is transforming supply chains, but the societal cost in terms of inequality may be high The advance of automation in supply chains is nothing new, but the current outcry over labor shortages is expected to accelerate the rush to replace humans with algorithms and machines.

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The CHIPS and Science Act of 2022: What It Means for the Future of Manufacturing

ivalua

The CHIPS Act was created in response to pandemic-induced shortages of semiconductors and other critical manufacturing supplies, causing widespread disruption to supply chains across the country. . In contrast, chip manufacturing has significantly increased in Taiwan, South Korea, and China over the same time period*.

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Samsung Electronics Reports Six Fold Quarterly Profit Increase- Striking Workers Return to Work

Supply Chain Matters

Striking Workers Temporarily Return to Work On July 9th Supply Chain Matters alerted our readers to reports that production workers at Samsung Electronics had initiated a labor disruption strike action involving this company’s semiconductor production facilities in South Korea. Rival Apple reportedly shipped 45.2

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Reports of Samsung Electronics Labor Disruption

Supply Chain Matters

Production workers at Samsung Electronics have initiated a reported three-day labor disruption at the high tech, semiconductor and consumer electronics facilities in South Korea. © Copyright 2024, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog. All rights reserved.