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“Made in America” as the Engine for High Performance Manufacturing Organizations and Satisfied Customers
MANUFACTURING, MANUFACTURING, VIDEO

“Made in America” as the Engine for High Performance Manufacturing Organizations and Satisfied Customers

Reviewing the market forces driving global footprint optimization decision-making Asking the question, “What do my customers need, and how can I make that work?” Identifying and comparing the total cost of ownership in national and international operations Aligning manufacturing operations, supply chain strategies, and business-to-business communication practices to improve planning horizons, quality control, response times, versatility, and reliability Discussing what the next ten years look like as companies find a balance between offshoring, onshoring, nearshoring, reshoring, and rightshoring — Laura Phillips SVP, Global Sourcing & U.S. Manufacturing Walmart Laura Phillips is the Senior Vice President for Customer and Business Development,…

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Rethinking Our Approach: How to Make Sustainability the Beating Heart of What We Do
Sustainability, SUSTAINABILITY, VIDEO

Rethinking Our Approach: How to Make Sustainability the Beating Heart of What We Do

As part of Amazon’s mission to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, Amazon is giving customers access to more sustainable products, from thousands of Amazon-branded products it develops and manufactures, to millions of retail and third-party items sold in Amazon’s store. If we built our business practices around sustainability first and foremost, what would change about how our products and processes look and perform? What are consumers’ expectations of Amazon related to sustainability and what is Amazon doing to innovate on behalf of customers across product development, packaging, and more? In 2020, Amazon launched Climate Pledge Friendly, a program that uses…

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