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

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Feature Article by Dr. Raymon Krishnan – President at the Logistics and 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. For instance, law firms and consultants in the U.S. Product redesign.

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ZF’s Transition from Lean to Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

ZF has been working with a supply chain solutions provider called SupplyOn since 2001. According to Mr. Sobeck, the SupplyOn solution means that when you need to “register a supplier or to update their information, you only need to do that once instead of several times.” Will the needed parts arrive at their plant on time?

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Where Does Cuba Rank in Logistics?

Talking Logistics

All this talk about Cuba, however, sparked a question for me this week: Where does Cuba rank in logistics? The answer, according to the World Bank’s Logistics Performance Index (LPI) , is near the bottom of the list. Source: Adelante SCM based on World Bank LPI data. Source: Adelante SCM based on World Bank LPI data.

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Analog Supply Chains are an Anachronism in a Digital World

Enterra Insights

According to Wong and Steinberg, it was just a matter of time before the bad news started making headlines — with or without the pandemic. ”[2] Pandemics halt production, snarl logistics, confuse demand signals, and disrupt every economic sector in some manner. Supply chain processes are not immune to this trend.

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How to Harness the Economic Power of Logistics Clusters

MIT Supply Chain

The Zaragoza Logistics Center, Zaragoza, Spain, is based in PLAZA, Europe’s largest logistics park, and both organizations benefit from the relationship. The Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC), Zaragoza, Spain, is celebrating its 10 th anniversary this week. The plan was to transform the region into a logistics hub.

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Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods

Gravity Supply Chain

Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods by giving customers more visibility and greater confidence to accurately predict delivery times. Within a matter of months, a finely-tuned global system met its match in a virus that quickly spread around the world via now-routine international travel.

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E-commerce and the Digital Path to Purchase

Enterra Insights

The staff at New England College note, “Increasingly, [online is] where consumers spend their time and do their shopping. ”[1] The fact is the digital path to purchase is growing globally — not just in the United States. .”[1] Today the digital path to purchase is growing in importance. million in 2016. ”[2].