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The Challenges with Near Sourcing from Mexico
Here are 11 reasons why U.S. companies are finding it so difficult to use Mexico as an alternative sourcing partner. In the wake of…
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3 Signs to Optimize Supplier Relationship Management
3 Signs – Optimize Your Supplier Relationship Management Process Juggling suppliers is hard. There’s testing and quality control to contend with. There are lead…
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Flying Blind During the Supply Chain Crisis
Flying Blind Back in September and October, suppliers in China and many other countries dealt with electricity shortages, aluminum, magnesium, and silica shortages, in…
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How a Power Transmission Firm Achieved Inventory Freedom
CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY How can a mechanical components manufacturer provide well-engineered and energy-efficient products to their customers in the face of constrained supply chains?…
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Rethinking Our Packaging Case Study
A BOX IS A BOX IS A BOX … OR IS IT? 4 out-of-the-box lessons learned from rethinking packaging for supply chain. When you…
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10 Ways COVID Is Still Impacting Our Lives Today
COVID-19. Unfortunately, we were wrong about it. COVID is still here, and it doesn’t look like it’s going away anytime soon. Throughout the pandemic,…
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