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Digital Tools Help Metals Supply Chains Experience Less Volatility and More Resiliency

Supply Chain Brain

Businesses in the industrial metals industry must increasingly rely on digital tools such as real-time product tracking to optimize their items’ journey and to provide data to inform decisions.

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Automation at a crossroads at ProMat 2023

SCMR (Supply Chain Management Review)

2021 and 2022 were the best of times for the materials handling industry.

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Smaller Truckers Are Struggling to Keep Pace in an Uncertain Economy

Supply Chain Brain

Small to medium-sized trucking companies have all of the challenges that afflict their larger competition, and none of the advantages.

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The Beautiful Complexity of Procurement Planning

The Good Spending

Where's the procurement planning when you need one? Once, we wrote about demand management in this blog. It's a good enough topic, which misses one crucial element - demand management mastery comes after sophisticated planning. In some companies (and I'm quoting my own experience), procurement planning barely exists. Our colleagues tend to accept the business demand for granted and not try to understand or, God forbid, challenge it.

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Tariffs on the Table: How to Brief the Board and C‑Suite With Confidence

“What should we do about the tariffs?” There’s no straightforward answer — every leader has a different expectation. CFOs want numbers. COOs want action. CEOs want strategy. And supply chain and procurement leaders need to be ready with the right response — fast. That’s why GEP has created a simple three-part framework that will help CPOs and CSCOs brief the board and C-suite with clarity and confidence.

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Drug-Resistant Bacteria Tied to Products Imported from India

Supply Chain Brain

The FDA has long been criticized for lapses in inspections of overseas manufacturing in China and India, which are the two major producers of drugs and raw ingredients for medicines.

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Alibaba’s Logistics Arm Goes Public

Procurement Bulletin

Alibaba’s Logistics Arm Goes Public Cainiao Network Technology, Alibaba’s logistics arm, is getting ready to go public in Hong Kong. Retail Supply Chains Has AI-Written All Over It Apparently AI can do more than just write articles, take tests and create fake images of religious leaders. Any step you look at in retail supply chains, you’ll be able to apply AI to it.

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331: Women in Supply Chain, Sylena Urbanoski

Let's Talk Supply Chain

In today’s episode of Women In Supply Chain, I’m joined by the multi-talented Sylena Urbanoski: veteran, business founder, supply chain leader and start-up advisor. Sylena Urbanoski is a strategic and dynamic operations leader with over seven years’ experience at the chief executive level, where she built profitable start-up divisions, grew business lines, managed deals, and streamlined operations.

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Supply Chain Cyberattack Could Have Thousands of Victims Globally

Supply Chain Brain

The attacks are likely the work of a group named “Labyrinth Chollima,” one of the most prolific North Korean hacking units, more widely known as part of the “Lazarus Group.

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[Pod] Architecting and Enabling Amazing Procurement Teams w/ Fadi El Mouallem

Art of Procurement

“At the end of the day, procurement is a business enabler. No company can grow without its suppliers. And for. The post [Pod] Architecting and Enabling Amazing Procurement Teams w/ Fadi El Mouallem appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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Watch: Investing in Promising Logistics and Transportation Technologies

Supply Chain Brain

Aidan Madigan-Curtis, partner at Eclipse Ventures, discusses what makes technologies in logistics and transportation worthy of serious investment today.

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How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control

Speaker: Andrew Skoog, Founder of MachinistX & President of Hexis Representatives

Manufacturing is evolving, and the right technology can empower—not replace—your workforce. Smart automation and AI-driven software are revolutionizing decision-making, optimizing processes, and improving efficiency. But how do you implement these tools with confidence and ensure they complement human expertise rather than override it? Join industry expert Andrew Skoog as he explores how manufacturers can leverage automation to enhance operations, streamline workflows, and make smarter, data-dri

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U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo Announces U.S. Fiber Manufacturing Expansions

Supply Chain Brain

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law requires the use of Made-in-America materials and products for federally funded infrastructure projects including high-speed Internet deployment in America.

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Sartorius to Buy French Biotech Polyplus for $2.6 Billion

Supply Chain Brain

The deal would bolster Sartorius’s portfolio of drug-delivery technologies, creating a deeper focus on the fast-growing field of viral vectors, which are tools used to deliver genetic material into cells.

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