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November 1, 2020

If you are a CEO, CXO, senior leader, company owner, or supply chain manager of a company that provides products and/or services to customers, this eBook is for you. A global group of independent management consultants—with decades of experience working to develop competitive advantage, profit, and growth for their clients—have collaboratively created this just for you and your team. This eBook is one in a series and will focus on Supply Chain Management (SCM).

SCM is a vital strategic competency in any organization. It encompasses the processes and activities necessary to design, make, deliver, and support a product or service. Disruptive forces remind us how important it is to integrate supply chain strategy with business strategy and to have well thought-out crisis management, mitigation, and contingency plans in place for when the unexpected occurs.

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October 1, 2020

Welcome to this issue of “How to Strengthen and Grow your Business.” In these unique and challenging times, there are opportunities to strengthen, to grow, and to become more valuable to your existing customers and to new customers.

We are all innovators. We innovate when a customer says no to a sale, and we figure out how to improve. We innovate when we develop a new offering and promote it to our existing customers and to new prospects. The key is to take action, keep your feet moving, fail fast, figure things out, adjust, and persist.

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August 15, 2020

Certified Global SME Advisors – Volume 1, Issues 2 – August 2020

Just a few short decades ago when I was a university student, I was stressed about an upcoming tax exam. Looking back, exams seem very minor compared to the personal and financial hardships many are experiencing today due to Covid.However, when you’re young, anything happening seemed very serious. Seeking some adviceabout my serious tax exam situation, I called my Dad. He was a man of few,but wise,words. He was also a World War II veteran who had been chased by a tank, blindedwhen tank artillery hit a brick school house he was hiding in, and left for dead after being hit with machine gun fire. My brother and I grew up hearing his war storiesand likely became disproportionately brave in certain situations. Dadnever could sit in front of an open picture window for long; likely the long-term effects of post-traumaticstress disorder.

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August 12, 2020

Certified Global SME Advisors
Volume 1, Issues 1 – August 2020

With the current events taking place concerning Coronavirus, it is important that we take it seriously but do not panic. We must be vigilant and extra careful especially if you are an older adult with underlining health issues.

This outbreak is currently causing a significant disruption to the business environment and fear seems to be taking over. The thing is, this virus will run its course as have other viruses such as the Swine flu in 2009 that affected approximately 60 million people and caused 13,000deaths in the U.S. There were 1.4 billion cases in the world and 575,000 deaths worldwide during that pandemic.

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August 1, 2020

CLAREMONT, CA—Diversification makes good business sense during COVID-19, provided that the rationale and focus for doing so is clear, according to The Society for the Advancement of Consulting® (SAC). With a clear focus, customers will get enhanced value from products and services, as your business avoids the panic mode that besets weaker competitors.

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July 30, 2020

Managing warehouse inventory, on its face, seems a simple concept: Keep enough stock on hand to fulfill orders, but not so much stock that your warehouse is filled to the brim with inventory that won’t move for months (or years). Too much slow-moving inventory means you’re spending money to store products that aren’t earning immediate revenue, and too little means backorders and unhappy customers who are likely to seek out your competition. In practice, however, warehouse inventory management is quite complex, given the number of variables that impact the bottom line:

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July 17, 2020

FAU Business Moderated by David Menachof, FAU Associate Professor, Art Koch and Matt Tichon discuss the current supply chain and strategies going forward in terms of production capacity, inventory management, global vs. local sourcing choices, and value added issues.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTPlvqY4IcE

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May 5, 2020

MultiBriefs Exclusive – Gail Short In the weeks after COVID-19 began sweeping across the United States, the pandemic succeeded in revealing chinks in the country’s retail and manufacturing supply chains. Some supply chains simply broke. Stores quickly sold out of items like hand sanitizer, antibacterial wipes, toilet paper and paper towels, to the frustration of …

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March 18, 2020

The Shrimp Tank | Seattle Episode 86 – COVID-19 Expert Panel

We find ourselves in interesting times. Unprecedented times with a global pandemic that is severely impacting both individuals and businesses; especially small and medium-sized businesses.

Being in Seattle, we have been at the epicenter of the outbreak in the United States. To that end, we are practicing responsible social distancing and not holding a live podcast and have rescheduled our guest to another time in the future. Co-host Dan Weedin has recorded a special podcast related directly to responding to the COVID-19 crisis. Dan has recorded an interview with four global experts and colleagues of his to help you figure out what to do right now and this week to respond and set up recovery strategies.

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