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Navigating Supply Chain Innovation: Strategies for Success

HYPE Innovation

of businesses report increased operational costs due to supply chain disruptions , supply chain innovation has become critical for companies seeking to remain competitive and sustainable. In today's rapidly evolving business environment, where 84.6%

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Using Technology to Improve Supply-Chain Resilience

Harvard Business Review

The Covid-19 pandemic brought many global supply chains to a halt. To move forward, supply chain managers need more flexible, dynamic connections between trading partners to replace their current point-to-point, static connections that are unable to adapt to sudden, unexpected supply chain disruptions.

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What is Supply Chain Innovation? Definition, Examples, Strategies, Process and Best Practices

IdeaScale

Table of Contents What is Supply Chain Innovation? Supply chain innovation is defined as the implementation of new and improved strategies, technologies, processes, and practices within the supply chain to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, mitigate risks, and improve overall performance.

Strategy 130
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How Could Harvard Decarbonize Its Supply Chain?

Harvard Business Review

Tracking and measuring carbon emissions play important roles in the university’s efforts to decarbonize its supply chain.

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The 2023 Supply Chain Crystal Ball: Challenges and Solutions

Speaker: Olivia Montgomery, Associate Principal Supply Chain Analyst

The supply chain management techniques that dominated the last 30 years are no longer supporting consumer behavior or logistics and manufacturing capabilities. You'll learn more about: Trending supply chain tech investments to consider. Curious to know how your peers are navigating ongoing disruption?

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How Kenvue De-Risked Its Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

Global disruptions that cause sudden swings in consumer demand are becoming more commonplace today, changing the way we think about supply chains and de-risking them. Specifically the company invested in three strategic capabilities: surge capacity, partnerships, and data and processes.

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How Global Companies Use AI to Prevent Supply Chain Disruptions

Harvard Business Review

As they strive to make their supply chains more resilient, global companies are grappling with two challenges: the difficulty in discerning potential sources and the extended time required to find, vet, and onboard new suppliers. They are also employing AI tools to pre-qualify suppliers ahead of time.

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The Modern Supply Chain: Global Challenges and Best Practices

Speaker: Bart Huthwaite - Principal, RSM, Operations and Supply Chain

We’re in the midst of economic turmoil, the aftermath of a global health crisis, and continuous tensions between international organizations, so how can you ensure your supply chain is powerful enough and flexible enough to weather the storm? Your company is depending on this! Save your seat today!

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How to Transform Your Supply Chain: Digitization for Decision-Making

Speaker: Hannah Testani, CEO of Intelligent Audit

Today’s supply chain environment requires a company to obtain a competitive advantage by improving its entire supply chain process end-to-end. The future of the supply chain industry will take the emotion out of decision-making by leveraging innovative technology to transform raw data into actionable intelligence.

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A Deep Dive Into Supply Chain Strategy: Why Yours Isn't Working

Speaker: Michelle Meyer, Founder and CEO of MatterProviders

Michelle Meyer is the Founder and CEO of MatterProviders, and a supply chain professional of over 30 years. Fortunately, she's here to walk you through the future of supply chain strategy and why your current approach is probably not working. Reshoring - it’s happening, and it’s only going to accelerate.

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The New Tech Toolbelt: Digital Twins, IoT, Cobots, & More

Speaker: Cory Skinner, Founder and CEO of FactR

From limited visibility and a lack of real-time data to a lack of agility and responsiveness to changing market conditions, there's no shortage of difficulties that today's supply chain professionals can encounter. What can be done to not only address these challenges, but overcome them?

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Problem Solved: Boost Resilience with Supplier Diversity

Speaker: Rod Robinson - SVP of the Supplier Diversity Practice, Insight Sourcing Group

With an unsteady economy, inflation, and unpredictable attrition, businesses can and should turn to supplier diversity programs to overcome some of today’s most difficult supply chain and logistics challenges. Ready to get started?

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The Supply Chain & Logistics Journey: Humble Beginnings, Troubled Present, Amazing Future

Speaker: James A. Tompkins, Ph.D.

The first 20 years of work on supply chains beget efficiency, the next 10 - efficiency and effectiveness. For the last 3 years, we have seen supply chain and logistic chaos. Going forward, supply chains will be at the core of organizational success.

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Future Focus: Constructing Unshakeable Stability in Your Manufacturing Supply Chain

Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

We’ve all heard the buzzwords to describe new supply chain trends: resiliency, sustainability, AI, machine learning. Over the past few years, manufacturing has had to adapt to and overcome a wide variety of supply chain trends and disruptions to stay as stable as possible. But what do these really mean today?

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Software Composition Analysis: The New Armor for Your Cybersecurity

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022.