Improving Your Supply Chain: Collaboration, Agility and Visibility

The globalization of businesses and their supply chains is impacting operational complexity like never before. As the supply chain process becomes more complex and the numbers of participants involved increases, consumer goods companies are encountering unique challenges in managing the flow of their operations. Since what it takes to run a successful supply chain is evolving, we recommend that companies focus on improving three aspects of their supply chain in order to keep pace with the changing landscape: collaboration, agility and visibility.

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Rivet AU

The Rivet Group operates four businesses primarily operating in the heavy haulage, specialised transport, logistics and lifting industries, and has in excess of 1,300 employees spread across Australia.

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Logistics for the aerospace supply chain transformation

whitePaper | December 13, 2022

The COVID-19 outbreak in 2020 was the most significant disruption ever encountered by the aerospace industry. Nations locked down, flights were cancelled and aircraft were parked and stored. The exceptional scope and speed of the pandemic affected each industry segment: airline, MRO, OEM, vendor and lessor.

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Supply chain reinvention What you need to start and stop now

whitePaper | October 26, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic was a test of supply chain resiliency and most organizations fell short. Before COVID-19, global supply chains ticked a lot of boxes: lower labor and operating costs, wider product ranges and greater reach to new markets. But the vulnerabilities and visible failures of global supply chains during COVID-19 were there for all to see. Lead times expanded exponentially. Manufacturing capacity stalled. Ports became congested. Transportation ground to a halt. Excessive reliance on one location or one supplier caused a domino effect of expensive downtime along the line

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A Partnership of Trust: Dell Supply Chain Security

whitePaper | May 23, 2022

Information technology is creating a more connected world, and our dependence on technology for all aspects of our lives continues to increase. However, the advanced technology and sophisticated logistics networks that support this connectivity are facing unprecedented attacks, which risk undermining the trust on which growth, prosperity, and international relations rest. Complicating matters further, the complexity, sophistication and potential impact of attacks also have increased substantially over time.

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Four Ways that Technology is Remolding the Digital Supply Chain

whitePaper | December 16, 2019

Supply chains are a prominent cog in delivering what we need in our daily lives. Almost everything around us has passed through various links in the supply chain. Supply chain efficiency is therefore vital to keeping customers happy — and loyal. And the importance of supply chain excellence is hypercritical given the growing demand for more personalized products and services, delivered exactly when and where customers specify, quickly and at exceptionally low cost.

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Driving the Risk Out of Line Haul Fleet Management with AIoT technologies

whitePaper | October 15, 2022

Supply chain disruptions, unpredictable order volumes, the uptick in e-commerce orders and changing customer expectations are all creating new roadblocks and opportunities for global organizations. Limited freight capacity, persistent driver shortages and fluctuating fuel costs are only adding to the already lengthy list of challenges that fleet managers face on a daily basis.

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Need for due diligence in assessing supply chain substance

whitePaper | February 1, 2020

Demonstrating compliance for a variety of regulations and requirements can be a relatively challenging process. It usually begins with data collection, followed by a comparison against regulatory and industry requirements before companies conduct an assessment using comprehensive test and analytical protocols. However, substance regulations do not typically reference comprehensive and standardized testing protocols explicitly, which poses additional challenges and requirements for manufacturers and their downstream partners.

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Rivet AU

The Rivet Group operates four businesses primarily operating in the heavy haulage, specialised transport, logistics and lifting industries, and has in excess of 1,300 employees spread across Australia.

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