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Key Takeaways from SAP Spend Connect Live

Logistics Viewpoints

This solution allows human resource managers to review performance against over 50 external workforce key performance indicators, access global market intelligence (including rates, talent supply and demand, and time-to-hire trends), and track progress across diversity and worker health and safety initiatives.

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Making Sense of Supply Chain 4.0

Material Handling and Logistics

And every conference showcased the latest technologies available to help you do so. Production uncertainties are caused by unexpected occurrances, such as yields that are different from forecasts, or factory machines that break down. What can go wrong on the factory floor will go wrong. Everyone was excited about it.

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10 most important SCM trends of 2023

Logistics Business Magazine

Ralf Duester, member of the board of the SCM software specialist Setlog, shows which trends will shape the year 2023. Following the UN Climate Change Conference in Sharm el-Sheik, consumers, politicians, and business partners are calling on companies to act quickly. Sustainability laws force action.

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Top 5 Supply Chain Implementation Risks

Logistics Business Magazine

Smart factory operations can help supply chain leaders achieve many of their highest priorities, but the challenges are too often underestimated, according to research from Gartner, Inc. Gartner research has identified the five top risks to avoid when launching new smart factory initiatives: 1.

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Take 5 – What Does the Connected Manufacturing Environment Look Like?

Now, That's Logistics

As attendees at this year’s SEMICON West conference learned last month, advanced technology is playing a major role in these new “connected” Industry 4.0 The ability of the smart factory to predict future outcomes based on historical and real-time data can improve uptime, yield, and quality, and prevent safety issues,” Deloitte continues.

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Global Trade and Shipping Activity Bouncing Back, Creating New Challenges Post-COVID

MTS Logistics

Supply chains collapsed as factories shut down and ports closed due to health and safety concerns. According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), global trade has already rebounded and surpassed pre-pandemic levels. The COVID-19 pandemic was a major disruptor for the global shipping industry.

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One Multinational’s Supply Chain Transformation Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

Those materials flow into over 170 factories in over 40 nations. A supply chain is mapped, where components are source from, how they flow through a supply chain to factories and out to customers. Then key terms are identified, terms like “factory fire,” “bankruptcy” are married to the names of suppliers and ports and partners.