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

Supply Chain Game Changer

India’s second wave of Covid article and permission to publish here provided by Ajay Jha. April 2021 saw India grappling with Covid- 19 again. Between the 2 nd and 3 rd week of April itself, India had recorded 38 lakh new cases. An important point to note here is that India has adequate oxygen production.

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Restructuring Global Value Chains & Tariff Reduction – A Continuous Evolution for Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Ensuring that any approach is fully compliant in order to avoid having to relocate production or supply sources often takes up a lot of internal resources. Firms could store products that attract tariffs in bonded warehouses until they are required. This practice is illegal. Operational strategies. Buying forward. Insourcing.

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Key considerations for brands and e-tailers in India who are gearing up for festive bonanza

Vinculum

In the 2020 festive season alone, online retailers in India are expected to generate about $6.5 Avalara’s India GST e-Invoicing Solution can help you connect multiple data sources like ERP, e-commerce platforms, accounting systems through API integration as well as direct upload by supporting multiple data formats.

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COP26: 5Zs that changed the world

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

In respect to logistics and transport something remarkable happened at COP26. The first Z – Zero emission road transport: Global MOU for ZE-MHDVs . In 2018, according to data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) road transport accounted for three-quarters of transport emissions. Most of this, 45.1

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Podcast: Rob O’Byrne on Digital Transformation, Sustainability, and Diversification in Sourcing

Requis

People are still worried about having efficiencies in their warehouses, making sure they’re laid out properly, and having the right processes. A lot of companies now will have regional hubs with just smaller satellite warehouses in each country. People are still concerned about outsourcing logistics and doing that right.

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Sustainable Supply Chain Management.

ModusLink Corporation

Ikea is a good example as it has sourced close to 50 percent of its wood from sustainable foresters and hundred percent of its cotton from farms that meet better cotton standards (Ikea, n.d.). Calcutta, India: IGI Global. Bangalore, India: Elsevier Ltd.8). Companies in India. 181 part B). S.Minner, Ed.) Avittathur, A.

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PepsiCo’s Massive, Complex, and Difficult Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Logistics Viewpoints

The company is using Blue Yonder for transportation management, Coupa’s Supply Chain Guru for network design, and FourKites ( see the webinar ) for transportation visibility in certain regions or departments to help with this. Scope 1 emissions include direct emissions from the company’s owned and controlled sources.