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The Supply Chain Response to India’s Second Wave of Covid!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Belgium too chipped in to offer 9000 doses of Remdesvir. Saudi Arabia shipped 80 Metric tonnes of liquid oxygen to India and Portugal assured 20,000 litres of oxygen per week to India along with 5503 vials of Remdesvir. DHL and FEDEX played a major role in inbound logistics and distribution.

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How Electra Implemented Precoro Soon After Establishment and Grew Ever Since

Precoro

Now Electra has offices in France, Belgium, and Italy, with Spain and Switzerland marking the next destinations on their expansion roadmap. Rémi Lelarge, the Head of Procurement and Logistics at Electra, shared their story of building a comprehensive procurement process with Precoro. It's one of my favorite tools at work. "

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Better Together: “The Promise of Supply Chain Sustainability”

BlueYonder

As a report sponsor, we were honored to participate in an in-person event hosted by the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics and CSCMP, the report authors. For example, would we be willing to wait an extra day or two for our online orders to be delivered if we were to understand the impact of the decision on sustainability metrics?

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Demand-Driven Transformation at Shell

Supply Chain Shaman

Completed in 2012, the ERP project forced the company to standardize organizational design, roles, and metrics. To gain organizational support to drive change, Nick ran two more simulations: one in Hong Kong and a grease plant in Belgium. Shell operates as a single-instance of SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). The reason?

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Supply Chain Roundtable Series: Optimising the Manufacturing Supply Chain

Unleashed

One of the wastes in Lean is movement , whether that’s movement between here and Belgium or I took 10 extra steps when I could have taken one. That reduces the amount of inventory space, handling, and logistics on individual small orders.” Order cycle time “Order cycle time is a great metric for businesses to track,” says Hugh.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 2 – 8)

Logistics Viewpoints

I saw an article recently about a cargo flight headed to Belgium from New York that had to turn around mid-flight. And now on to this week’s logistics news. beverage industry paid $2.175 billion in Section 232 tariffs on 10.295 million metric tons of aluminum since their implementation. HARBOR Aluminum estimates U.S.

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Red Sea Ocean Transport Shipping Disruption Update

Supply Chain Matters

China and Sweden auto producer Volvo has indicated that gearboxes needed to build conventional combustion vehicles at a plant in Belgium were delayed, forcing the company to halt production for three days. Logistics teams assessing options and related costs in shipping from Asia to Europe or from Europe to U.S. Some European and U.S.