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Ensure Your Supply Chain Complies with New US Trade Laws

Trade Facilitation Act Compliance

As of February, Obama signed the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015. The law sought fairer and more consistent labor practices with international businesses. Because parent companies are now legally liable for the actions of their suppliers, companies … Read More

Visibility Crucial to Managing Supply Chain Risk

supply chain risk

74% of supply chain companies have experienced supply chain disruption at least once, based on a recent Business Continuity Institute study. A similar number of respondents (72%) admitted to not having full visibility of their supply chain. Lou Feretti, Project Executiv… Read More

3 Ways the Value of Procurement Can Be Quantified

Value of Procurement

The value of procurement is often measured by savings and coverage, but procurement professionals may be limiting themselves. GEP explores procurement’s other value propositions in its whitepaper on procurement transformation.

Speed to market, risk management and … Read More

A Supply Chain Risk Management Glossary

How well do you know Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) and Resiliency terms and concepts? Riskipedia™ is an open-source project created by the Global Supply Chain Resiliency Council (GSCRC) to serve as education and training material.

The resource is a living documen… Read More

The Return on Investment for Supply Chain Data

 

Using Big Data in a supply chain strategy is more than just supporting analytic technology and making predictions for the future. Big Data used in supply chain risk management can actually become a big return on investment.

Here are ways that supply chain data can be a r… Read More

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"MEP has put together an intelligent program that was well thought out and challenging for supply chain management team. They challenged our supply chain approach and current paradigm – forcing us to take a fresh look at what we do and how we do it. We are using the supply chain strategy tools that they provided as “take-aways” to change how we do things."

 

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