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Sourcing Strategy: Effective vs Efficient with Ron Crabtree

The Logistics of Logistics

Sourcing Strategy: Effective vs Efficient with Ron Crabtree. Joe Lynch and Ron Crabtree discuss sourcing strategy: effective vs efficient. When developing a sourcing strategy, the focus can be effectiveness (gaining desired results) or on efficiency (reducing cost, labor, and resources used). About Ron Crabtree. Ron Crabtree.

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Infor’s Strategy for Differentiation

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Infor’s CEO, Kevin Samuelson Infor’s strategy for differentiating their business from competitors like SAP and Oracle rests on a truly differentiated approach to ensuring that their customers get ongoing value from the business applications they purchase. For example, Google Maps app is a public cloud application.

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Sustaining National Defence – logistics investment in the National Defence Strategy

Logistics in War

By David Beaumont On 17 April 2024, Defence’s Integrated Investment Plan was published as a companion to Australia’s National Defence Strategy. [1] History cruelly reminds military planners, governments and nations that such opinions tend to ‘leave emperors without their clothes’.

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10 Ways A Data Gateway Improves Time to Value Across Your End-to-End Supply Chain

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For example, with a data gateway, a supply planner gains accelerated access to customer orders, inventory levels, and transportation schedules, all in one place, to increase the user experience of making the right choice to identify inefficiencies and make better, more informed decisions. Learn more at InterSystems.com/DataGateway.

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The Three Pillars of Sustainability in Supply Chain and Logistics: A Strategic Guide

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For senior leaders, understanding and integrating the three pillars of sustainability—environmental, social, and economic—into supply chain strategies is essential. Partnering with NGOs, governments, and industry peers allows organizations to share resources, reduce costs, and amplify the impact of sustainability initiatives.

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4 Important Benefits of a Sustainable Reverse Logistics Strategy

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However, one of the most important aspects of supply chain strategies is often overlooked: the reverse supply chain (also referred to as reverse logistics ). A reverse logistics strategy provides a path for removing the existing equipment to make way for the next era of equipment in the case of end of life products or new upgrdes.

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The Economics of Space Freight: Reducing Costs, Addressing Challenges, and Defining Future Logistics

Logistics Viewpoints

A nuanced understanding of these elements is critical for informed decision-making, thus let’s examine current costs, challenges, and potential strategies and offer a realistic perspective on the possibilities of space freight logistics. The materials and engineering involved in refurbishment reduce costs only incrementally.