This video from SupplyChainBrain features interviews with industry analysts and experts, and discusses ways in which GTM can reduce costs and bring ROI to a company's supply chain processes. Topics include procurement, transportation, costs containment, and managing free trade agreements.

For those of you who have the Trade Compliance Blues, here's a song and a video.

In this video, Nathan Pieri, Management Dynamics Senior VP of Marketing & Product Management and Russell Goodman, Editor-In-Chief of SupplyChainBrain discuss what is making Management Dynamics such a valuable partner to its clients.

While this blog is devoted to discussing supply chain management best practices, Management Dynamics has other solutions that will help you streamline all facets of global trade:

Special thanks to International Trade Law News for the following video about the National Export Initiative. You can also follow them on Twitter at @TradeLawNews.

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Automating the import supply chain today is complicated by new compliance regulations like Customs 10+2 and C-TPAT. In this interview with Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies magazine, VP Customs Compliance at Leggett & Platt discusses best practices for import compliance and for transforming a fragmented global procurement approach into a centralized global import process:

Today, importers must deal with end-to-end supply chain accountability and are increasingly challenged to have visibility and control over their supply base and origin operations. Here is a short video gives a good overview of how GTM technology can help companies manage these complexities of going global by automating their inbound processes, improving regulatory compliance and attaining landed cost objectives:

Here's a video I found that explains how Walmart plans to track supply chain emissions in order to provide carbon footprint information for all of their products. This follows up on a couple of blog posts I've made recently on this topic. Enjoy!

At the CSCMP Annual Conference this year, the Journal of Commerce was able to pull aside Gary Maxwell, Logistics VP at Walmart, for a quick interview. In this video, Maxwell discusses the supply chain goals, expectations and challenges of Walmart, the world's largest retailer. According to Maxwell one of the key driving forces of their supply chain are the customers. Walmart shoppers expect the stores to have high quality products at low prices, and without a well-managed, cost-efficient supply chain, this would be very difficult. Interesting insight into one of the world's top 25 supply chains for 2009, as determined by AMR Research earlier this year. (See related post on the Supply Chain Top 25.)