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11 Qualities of a Transparent Supply Chain

All Things Supply Chain

Supply Chain Transparency is a phrase that is continuously being thrown around; from an increasing amount of companies pledging to run more transparent supply chain operations to some companies receiving…

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Safety and Freshness in the Food Supply Chain

The Network Effect

Recently, the CDC has reported an outbreak of 84 cases of E.coli across 19 states due to food safety issues. The post Safety and Freshness in the Food Supply Chain appeared first on The Network Effect.

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Jeff Bezos v the World: Why All Companies Fear 'Death by Amazon'

Supply Chain Brain

At $19.99 a pop, the laptop stand combines everything customers love about Amazon: utility, price and convenience. It’s also a total and complete knockoff — of a laptop stand that the San Francisco-based company Rain Design began selling nearly a decade before Amazon decided to make its own. Amazon’s innovation with its own version was to replace Rain Design’s raindrop logo with its own smiley arrow logo — and cut the price in half.

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2018 Likely to Be Coldest Year on Record for Food Shippers

Supply Chain Collaborator

While the spring warmup seems to be “missing in action” for the Northeast US with April temps stuck 10-15 degrees below normal, you’d be right to assume we’re talking about the weather. However, what we’re actually referring to is the fact that cold-chain shippers in the food industry are facing market conditions that demand investment in more and better infrastructure to support cold chain shipping.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Sourcing promotional products the right way

Claritum

Promotional products are items used to promote a product, service or company program including advertising specialties, premiums, incentives, business gifts, awards, prizes, commemoratives and other imprinted or decorated items. Promotional merchandise is a valuable marketing tool that can help to establish brand awareness of a company among consumers.

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China-US Trade War and its Effects on US Distributors

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You’ve likely heard by now about the looming trade war between the US and China. But what exactly is a trade war? How did it come about, and how will it affect American manufacturers and distributors? Read on for a look as to how industries will be affected and what measures you can take to protect your business. What is a trade war? A trade war is basically a back-and-forth dispute between two nations where a country will impose tariffs to restrict trade.

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‘Try Before You Buy’: A Huge Logistics Challenge for E-Tailers

Supply Chain Brain

The mantra today is “try before you buy.” What it amounts to is enabling a type of customer behavior that has caused apparel sellers headaches for years. It all dates back to the heyday of catalog sales, when customers would order more sizes or styles than they intended to keep, try them on, then send back the unwanted items. Retailers were forced to cope with large volumes of returns, becoming experts in the art of reverse logistics.

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Better Than Amazon? How Bradley Jacobs Turned a $63M Bet Into a $12Bn Transportation Empire

Supply Chain Brain

"Anyone can buy a company. You just have to sign a contract and wire the money," he says. But conceiving how those acquired company parts can be integrated into an organically growing entity takes a special creative talent. "Even though I'm not writing a song [in integrating companies], I'm thinking of ideas that are abstract. It's a combination of math and music.

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The Infrastructure Crisis: What’s the Political Reality?

Supply Chain Brain

And so the cycle continues. President Trump has proposed a plan that supposedly would generate $1.5tr for the repair and upgrading of U.S. infrastructure. But only $200bn of that amount would come from the federal government. The rest would be provided by states and private investors. Or so goes the theory. But can we really accomplish this ambitious goal without greater federal participation — specifically, an increase in the federal gas tax , the basis for the Highway Trust Fund ?