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Achieving Supply Chain Resilience: Strengthen and Adapt Your Operations

Skill Dynamics

Mastering resilience enables businesses to uphold efficiency, reduce costs, and improve overall performance even when dealing with disruptions. This article will explore key strategies for building supply chain resilience, and how Skill Dynamics can help support your business throughout this transformation.

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Tariffs and Procurement (Part 2): Tariff management and building an action plan

Spend Matters

Tariff management is a strategic subset of direct materials management and sourcing that involves navigating and optimizing the complex costs and regulatory implications of importing materials and goods across borders. Tariffs essentially taxes imposed on imports and exports directly impact product cost structures.

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Outsmart Disruption with AI: Three Strategies for Supply Chain Resilience

Supply Chain Brain

The business required 100% vehicle uptime but struggled to meet this goal and manage spare parts inventory. Tanguy Caillet is global supply chain leader at Genpact. Another example of AI’s effectiveness occurred within a leading transportation and logistics company with nearly 450,000 trucks and 150 locations.

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How to Build Supply Chain Resilience!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe 8 Ways to Future-Proof Your Business and Build Resilience! When it comes to managing a business, interruptions in the supply chain can pose a major obstacle. Supply chain disruptions can have a huge impact on companies. Below are several ways to build supply chain resilience.

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How a Global CPG Leader Optimized $500M of Direct Materials Spend and Exceeded Savings Goal

A Fortune 500 CPG company partnered with GEP to improve end-to-end category management, optimize direct spend categories, and increase strategic focus on tail spend. The result was a year-over-year savings of more than 3%.

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Cybersecurity Protocols That Improve Supply Chain Resilience

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When one link in the digital supply chain is compromised, it can cascade downstream, disrupting operations across multiple businesses simultaneously. One of the most high-profile examples was the 2020 SolarWinds attack, where hackers gained access to the software build process of a widely used IT management platform.

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Enhancing Supply Chain Resilience with Smart Automation Technologies!

Supply Chain Game Changer

If you want to improve your daily operations and ensure that your supply chain is well-protected, these technology solutions are perfect for your needs. Smart Automation Technologies That Can Enhance Supply Chain Resilience 1. Originally written for Supply Chain Game Changer and published on June 14, 2024.

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Elevate Your Supply Chain Resilience With Scenario Planning

Speaker: Robert Olszak- Vice President, Global Supply Chain Optimization, RGP

As a supply chain director, you want to ensure that your supply chain network can withstand any disruptions and be optimized for peak performance. The global logistics market is growing, and companies need to prepare for the next generation of supply chain management.

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Building Supply Chain Resilience in the Real World

Speaker: Kelly Barner - Co-Founder & Managing Director of Buyers Meeting Point, LLC

Global inflation is at record highs and the Great Resignation has given way to the Great Reshuffling, leading to uncertainty in talent markets. What will 2023 bring? Time will tell, but it is unlikely to be a return to the pre-pandemic normal.

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The Easiest Platform to Manage Shipments

The unprecedented changes in the last couple of years have caused disruption and flustered supply chain resilience. As a result, shippers are dealing with high freight costs, late shipments, lack of visibility, process inefficiencies, and other complexities.