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The Importance of Supply Chain Visibility for Procurement

NLPA (Next Level Purchasing Association)

Supply chain visibility is essential for successful procurement, as it enables businesses to proactively manage risks and optimize their supply chain. By having a clear view of their entire supply chain, businesses can identify potential issues and take steps to mitigate them.

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Tendai Masamba on Breaking Ceilings and Empowering Women Leaders in Supply Chain

Let's Talk Supply Chain

As if the gender gap wasn’t enough already, women leaders in supply chain have their work cut out for them. With a decade already punctuated by constant disruption; consumers are more aware of supply chain and how industry shortages , talent gaps, and climate events impact their daily lives and local communities.

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How To Adopt a Customer-Driven Supply Chain Strategy

FourKites

What is a customer-focused supply chain? Having a customer-focused supply chain essentially means meeting the customer on their terms, rather than making them settle for yours. In this article we’ll cover the following areas of customer-driven supply chain strategy: The importance of a customer-driven supply chain.

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Blockchain for the Supply Chain: Reality vs. Hype

Supply Chain Brain

You’d be hard pressed to find a major industry today that isn’t talking up blockchain as a cure-all for the ills of global supply chains. The idea of a virtual, distributed ledger that can serve as an indelible system of record for any number of business transactions between supply-chain partners — well, it’s irresistible.

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Getting Bangladesh’s Apparel Industry on the Map

Supply Chain Brain

The goal of the three-year undertaking is to assemble key information about each factory, including business name, GPS coordinates, business license, safety inspections and apparel brands served. Sourcemap is providing the mapping software platform that will generate and publicly post digital visualizations of the relevant data.

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Strategies for Embracing the Internet of Things

Supply Chain Brain

Sastri says it’s essential for businesses to achieve total visibility over their devices. In the process, they can better manage software updates, patch gaps, lock down systems and prevent remote on-site access by various types of malware. You need to create visibility across the entire supply chain,” Sastri says.