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How Foreign-Trade Zones can help create tariff mitigation, resilience, and sustainability

Foreign-Trade Zones

Can Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZs) help you reduce duties and taxes while also streamlining your logistics and distribution processes?  Here's a look at this increasingly popular import strategy.            

Full Story:  Supply Chain Xchange (09/02)  

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AI Procurement: Strategic Edge Amid Tariffs and Disruptive Uncertainty  

Small Business    

AI is reshaping procurement by enabling to respond to global supply chain disruptions, such as tariffs and labor shortages, writes Gauray Tewari, the founder of Omega Venture Partners.  By leveraging AI, organizations can integrate data from multiple sources, automate complex decision-making and transform procurement from a cost center into a value-generation function, Tewari writes.                

Full story: Forbes (08/27)  

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IKEA:How Ingka is Using Procurement to Reach Net Zero Goals 

Sustainability  

Ingka group is mobilising sourcing, logistics and supplier collabration to deliver SBTi-validated cuts, renewables and circularity on a 1.5 degree C pathway now....         

Full story:  Procurement Magazine (10/6)

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