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The Beginning of the Beginning: A Progress Report on the Digitisation of Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Is this true for the supply chain industry? What seems to be clear by now is that the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the vulnerabilities and risks of today’s global supply chain networks. This is also true for states and research institutes through advanced supply chain design and management expertise and capabilities.

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Digitization in the Making – A reflection post-pandemic frenzy!

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

While we demand more transparency, governments wish to ensure homeland security, supply chain stakeholders seek higher levels of visibility for optimization and automation. Covid-19 has left us little choice but to leverage digital tools to stay operational. Technology is an enabler of progress and transformation.

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Digitisation: Shifting Gears in 2021

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Consumers demand more transparency, governments wish to ensure homeland security, and supply chain stakeholders are seeking higher levels of visibility for optimisation and increased resiliency. Suddenly, digital tools, like video conferencing became mainstream. Technology is a key enabler of the transformation.

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This Week in Logistics News (April15 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

In the wheelchair division, Marcel Hug of Switzerland won the men’s race at 1:17:06 and Susannah Scaroni of the US won the women’s race with a time of 1:41:45. And now for this week’s logistics news: Walmart Adds Truck Powered by Compressed Natural Gas to its Transportation Fleet CMA CGM offers $5.5 minutes per mile.

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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. Very positively, these topics have not only been discussed at COP26 but multiple initiatives were launched with some of them having the potential to significantly contribute to decarbonizing the global supply chain network. Most of this, 45.1

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Supply Chain Matters- This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech April 12 2022

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog features our April 12, 2022 edition of This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , a synopsis of noteworthy supply chain management focused technology news which we believe would be of specific interest to our global-based blog readership. MSC Mediterranean Shipping.

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The Importance of Transparency in Supply Chains

Enterra Insights

They are demanding more supply chain transparency. What is supply chain transparency? Although transparency sounds like a straight-forward subject, Bateman and Bonanni note, “Less clear is how to define transparency in a supply chain context and the extent to which companies should pursue it.”