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The One Key Shift in Your Supply Chain and Procurement Strategies that can Drive Better Business Continuity and Resilience

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In today’s dynamic and unpredictable business environment, companies face various challenges such as changing consumer demands, global uncertainty, and the impact of natural and man-made events. The purchasing of products at companies can be looked at in terms of two major dimensions: supply risk and impact on production (Figure 1).

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Why is o9 Solutions Growing So Fast?

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Chakri Gottemukkala, CEO at Supply Chain Planning Vendor o9 Solutions There are several young supply chain software companies that are unicorns. One of the more interesting is o9 Solutions. In January of 2022, Dallas-based o9 Solutions was valued at $2.7 A unicorn has a valuation of over $1 billion.

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Ecommerce Inventory Management: Challenges & Solutions

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In this article, we’ll look at some of those challenges and explore potential solutions to help you and your IM team meet the burgeoning demand for fast and accurate order fulfilment. Standardise and Digitise The key to managing complexity, of course, is to be organised.

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Freight Benchmarking: What Is It? Why Do It?

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The answer is to benchmark your freight, of course. The benefit of this is that you’ll be in a more proactive state when unforeseen events or crises arise with minimal warning. Alternatively, you can procure access to a digital freight benchmarking platform. The Pros and Cons of Procuring a Benchmarking Tool.

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Digital Transformation Journey in Supply Chain Planning

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Digital commerce efficiently requires the digitalization of many customer-facing operations and sourcing and procurement. Ensure that, somewhere along the way, data diagnostic tools will be used to check for missing and inconsistent data automatically. . Maintaining all past and future promotional events in a database.

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How to Get a Job in the Supply Chain Sector

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You are not alone, especially as in the time since we first penned this article, one huge and unforeseen event has raised awareness of the global importance of this vital sector—and shown it to be an attractive career choice. That event was the global COVID-19 pandemic, which erupted during the first half of 2020.

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Mastering Profitable Omni-Channel Logistics, Despite Disruptions

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As physical stores opened, shut down and re-opened again, consumers became more flexible in the way they shop for, and purchase, just about every product. The answer lies in identifying supply chain disruptions — from a big event, like a port closure, to smaller day-to-day performance exceptions — at the earliest possible moment.