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Charge Me Up! Energy Storage Development ā€“ A Fast Emerging Technology Needed for Sustainability

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The first iPhone only came out in 2007 ā€“ ushering in smart phone apps and all the rest in very quick succession. For transportation and logistics ā€“ the revolution to decarbonize is likewise well underway. As a sustainable logistics consultant Iā€™m often reading up on how technology is evolving in the energy sector. Charge Me Up!

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Energy Efficiency Is Key to Better Logistics

Material Handling & Logistics

Logistics providers have discovered that sustainability in the supply chain delivers a good ROI. And customers, many of whom are Millennials, want to know the sourcing of the products they buy and will make decisions based on a companyā€™s sustainability record. This solution has not been overlooked by logistics companies.

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Lifting The Gray Curtain

Supply Chain Shaman

At the end of the presentation, I asked Allyson her perspective on open source analytics. We started the pandemic with twenty-one more days of inventory than we had in 2007. Companies invested in improving visibility capabilities to improve functional efficiency of logistics, manufacturing, and supply. Lockdowns and Disbelief.

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How We Stubbed Our Toe in The Evolution of S&OP

Supply Chain Shaman

Notice how the water turns from blue to brown in Figure 3 with the lack of demand translation capabilities within the enterprise for manufacturing and logistics. Orchestration enables companies to effectively manage trade-offs between source, make, deliver and sell.) We source this data from Y charts. Mistake #5.

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A Real World Humanitarian Logistics Model

MIT Supply Chain

When a disaster such as a flood strikes, the response can be chaotic as various agencies and sources of supply converge on the stricken area. A humanitarian logistics model developed by the Center for Latin American Logistics Innovation (CLI) improves the efficiency of response efforts by taking a holistic view of these operations.

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This Week In Supply Chain Management Tech April 4 2023

Supply Chain Matters

Accenture Acquires Global Logistics Consulting Firm Flo Group Global based consulting and other services firm Accenture has reportedly acquired European based global logistics consulting services firm Flo Group. The deal reportedly will further enhance Oracleā€™s logistics software deployment capabilities across Europe.

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This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech September 8 2022

Supply Chain Matters

Procurement sourcing and tail spend solutions provider Fairmarkit announced the completion of a $35.6 This provider describes itself as an AI- enabled procurement Cloud platform built for the sourcing of lower-dollar, non-strategic purchases, commonly referred to as ā€œ tail spend.ā€ Expands C-Suite Amid Increased Technology Demand.