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ZF’s Transition from Lean to Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

I interviewed John Sobeck, Vice President Material Management Services and Supply Chain 4.0 at the ZF Group, about their digital supply chain transformation journey. This technology company is headquartered in Friedrichshafen, Germany. This technology company is headquartered in Friedrichshafen, Germany.

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Analog Supply Chains are an Anachronism in a Digital World

Enterra Insights

Supply chain processes are not immune to this trend. EY analysts Edmund Wong and Glenn Steinberg ( @GlennSteinberg ), ask, “Are you running an analog supply chain for a digital economy? They explain, “The global supply chain is a creation from the past, ill-suited to today’s fast-changing world.

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How to Protect Your Carrier Assets During Capacity Crunch

Talking Logistics

Having available capacity means more than having enough trucks, rail or steamship carrier assets to manage your business. Rather, it’s about winning the ongoing competition between shippers and third party logistics (3PLs) providers to secure those assets in order to maintain supply chain velocity. Max Out Your TMS Benefits.

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50 warehouse automation stats you should know

6 River Systems

Warehouse automation stats show that automation is making a big impact on warehouses and distribution centers. There are many driving forces behind the automation trend, from rising labor costs to rapid growth in ecommerce sales and a growing demand for rapid order fulfillment , such as two-day and even same-day delivery.

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[Video] Sanofi Genzyme trends in pharmaceutical supply chains

Kinaxis

Check out the video below as well as links to other supply chain practitioner and Kinaxis executive interviews. Merging two companies is seldom easy, but it’s even more difficult when their supply chains are highly dissimilar, says Jim Calarese, director of supply chain systems at Sanofi Genzyme.

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Successful Cargo Space Delivery

Freightos

And check out their company’s mission statement : “to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.”. Dragon is the name of the space cargo ship that just delivered 7,000 pounds of freight, including the inflatable room. We’re huge fans of innovation in the logistics space.

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Buyers, B-17 Bombers, and Heedful Interrelating…Musings for the Week

NC State SCRC

A collective mind emerges as a capacity in an on-going activity stream when activities among people are tied together ascontributions that are subordinated to a joint system. These four lapses are lapses of interconnection in gathering information about unexpected events (Weick, 2001). What does this have to do with supply chains?