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Developing Agile Procurement Strategies: Thriving Amid Global Trade Disruptions

Logistics Viewpoints

Your inbox quickly fills with concerned emails highlighting rising costs, delayed materials, and your teams urgent efforts to assess the situation and determine the next steps. manufacturer I know saw their import costs jump overnight, forcing a rethink of a decade-old sourcing strategy.

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4 Important Benefits of a Sustainable Reverse Logistics Strategy

GlobalTranz

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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What is DFMA (Design for Manufacture and Assembly) Analyses And How Can It Reduce Supply Chain Costs?

GlobalTranz

Efficiency begets costs savings, and let's be honest, we are all looking for ways to do that! We wanted to see if DFMA could aid in other ways to save on total costs in the supply chain. . There are two types of design that are woven together with a DFMA strategy: manufacture and assembly. Assembly Analysis.

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Active Supply Chain Design: A Key Imperative for De Risking Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

Risk events that happen in one part of the supply chain can cause a disruptive effect that is amplified multi-fold given the complex connectivity of labor, raw materials, and capacity. The bullwhip effect is one example of this disruptive effect, when small changes in demand cause huge demand spikes downstream.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Reverse Logistics: Managing the Business Circle of Life

GlobalTranz

And at the end, check out a nice infographic speaking more to reverse logistics strategies and practices. Throughout the course of business, there will be a series of recurring updates for equipment, software, and materials. For example, a returned product may only require rewrapping of exterior for sale to a secondary consumer.

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The Power of Outsourcing for Supply Chain Improvement

Logistics Bureau

Across our many blog posts, videos, webinars, eBooks, and other shared content, you’ll find a wealth of information about various aspects of outsourcing in the supply chain. However, I can’t recall writing a general guide about exploiting outsourcing opportunities to improve your supply chain.

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15 Improvements by the Deployment of The Internet of Things in the Supply Chain

GlobalTranz

Thus, in the global supply chain, exploiting the opportunity presented by the Internet of Things technology can improve: revenue growth, asset utilization, waste reduction, customer service, profitability, sustainability, security, risk mitigation, working capital deployment, agility and. Predictive capabilities and modeling to reduce costs.