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Build Resiliency With Supply Chain Planning

CMTC Manufacturing Tech

Global supply chains have faced significant disruptions in recent years. While pandemics, natural disasters, geopolitical conflicts, and other disruptive events are inevitable, manufacturing managers can insulate their supply chains from their worst effects with proper preparation. What is Supply Chain Planning?

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Managing Risk to Build Resilient Supply Chains

CMTC Manufacturing Tech

In the early ‘90s, American manufacturers began transitioning to a global supply chain model. This shift resulted in the movement of manufacturing facilities off shore in search of lowered labor costs and economies of scale. In this first blog, we break down supply chain risk management.

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Relationship Management Up & Down the Supply Chain

CMTC Manufacturing Tech

Modern supply chains are somewhat like Rube Goldberg machines — incredibly, often unnecessarily complicated, interconnected systems where a single disruption can trigger a chain reaction, impacting the entire operation. What Is Supplier Relationship Management? Where Does a Strong Supplier Relationship Add Value?

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Supplier Performance Management – Best Practices for Manufacturers

MRPEasy

Supplier performance management is a vital supply chain process for any manufacturer or distributor that sources its raw materials or other items from external vendors. Effective SPM can bring a wealth of internal benefits and help foster better supplier relationships. What is supplier performance management?

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What is Traceability and How to Achieve It?

MRPEasy

Traceability is the ability to track and trace the journey of a product or item throughout its entire supply chain, from its origin to the end consumer. appeared first on Blog for Manufacturers and Distributors.

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Supply Chain Chaos: How Companies Are Responding and Adapting to the New Reality

21st Century Tech

Please welcome a new contributor to 21st Century Tech Blog, David Madden. David’s topic today addresses the challenge that COVID-19 has created on global supply chains and how companies are mitigating and adapting to a new reality. My wife and I recently had our own supply chain experience. We repainted.

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Innovating for the Future: Four Trends from Hannover Messe

Gary Mintchell

layan Arkan, Vice President, Global Strategy and Sales Lead, Manufacturing and Supply Chain at Microsoft, a few years ago. Checking through Microsoft press information recently, I came across his blog reporting from Hannover in May. Empowering a diverse frontline manufacturing workforce. Need we say more?