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The Journey to End-to-End (E2E) Supply Chain Visibility Is Ongoing

Logistics Viewpoints

In North America, we’ve made huge progress tracking over-the-road shipments, in part due to driver mandates and the widespread deployment of electronic logging devices (ELDs) in trucks. Or countries where we need to deploy smart tags on pallets of goods to ensure connectivity.

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Solving the Emerging Market Packaging Puzzle

MIT Supply Chain

The Center for Latin-American Logistics Innovation (CLI) has developed two optimization models that help companies find the most cost-effective packaging format for emerging markets. Filed under: Strategy , Transportation Tagged: delivery networks , emerging markets , Latin America , megacity logistics , nanostores , product packaging.

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Is Saint-Gobain Serious About Reducing Their Carbon Footprint?

Logistics Viewpoints

Fabricio Saraiva Moreira, Operational Excellence Director for Latin America, was willing to discuss their success in reducing carbon emissions in Latin America. Brazil, the single largest country in which the company operates in Latin America, has experienced significant benefits by optimizing its transport routes.

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Join Thousands of Students in MIT’s Digital Supply Chain Classroom

MIT Supply Chain

Additionally, the same material will be used to complement the in-residence teaching at MIT as well as at MIT’s three Global SCALE Network sister centers in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Registration for CTL.SC1x is open until September 30, 2014, although it is possible for individuals to enroll after the course has started.

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How Are Counterfeit Drugs Procured?

MIT Supply Chain

The Panamanian public health sector had unknowingly purchased and distributed the medicine, which was manufactured in China and handled by brokers and wholesalers in Asia and Europe before reaching consumers in Latin America. The complexity of pharmaceutical supply chains helps counterfeiters to distribute their inferior products.

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Jaro Caban: “Establishing S&OP is a challenging journey”

Supply Chain Movement

With a price tag of $2.1 Cargill Animal Nutrition (CAN) is clustered around five major regions: North America; Latin America; EMEAR, including Russia; South Asia and East Asia. By Helen Armstong (Supply Chain Movement). billion dollars it was one of the company’s largest acquisitions.

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Street-Level Views of Megacity Logistics

MIT Supply Chain

In one project sponsored by the Itaú Fund for Research on Sustainability in Latin America, students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of São Paulo (USP) tracked goods vehicles in the Brazilian city of São Paulo.