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RFID in the Supply Chain: Fizzling Technology or the Future of Effective SCM?

GlobalTranz

In 2003, Walmart announced that all of its suppliers would need to have Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags on all pallets and cases by 2006. Historically, the cost of RFID implementation and difficulty to utilize RFID in conjunction with other supply chain systems has hindered mass adoption by supply chain managers.

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This Week In Supply Chain Management Tech April 4 2023

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters features its latest full edition of This Week in Supply Chain Tech , a compilation of funding, partnership and other noteworthy announcements related to supply chain technology support. Our last full edition was published on February 14. Financial terms have not been disclosed.

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How Can Life Sciences Supply Chains Navigate a Disrupted World?

Logility

Industrial psychologists point to the need for a modern workforce free from restrictive and highly specialized business silos, and comfortable with – even optimized for – stretching in new directions, juggling priorities, acquiring new skills and mastering new technologies. Optimizing Critical Supply Chain Functions. Challenges.

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Post-pandemic Supply Chains

Enterra Insights

“As countries shut down, stock markets crumble and economic activity slows to a crawl,” writes Yossi Sheffi ( @YossiSheffi ), the Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “it is hard to believe that in a few months the coronavirus crisis may be over.”[1]

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Supply Chain Disruptions Are New Opportunities – LogiSYM October/November 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Unlike SARS in 2003, the Covid-19 pandemic has spawned an unprecedented Global health pandemic. The enforcements of draconian lockdowns, various economies have experienced severe shocks, adversely affecting global trade, global tourism & travel, International Aviation and Airports as well as International Shipping and Ports.

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Coronavirus Highlights Fragility of Global Supply Networks

Jaggaer

Procurement professionals around the world are sitting up and paying attention, especially in sectors with globally integrated supply chains. In such a crisis, virtually all supply categories appear “strategic”: as CNN business bluntly put it , “ You can’t make a car with 99% of the parts. Heavy industry. Automobiles.

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Two Important Questions About the Future of Freight Moves

Talking Logistics

The projections are from BTS’ and FHWA’s latest version of the Freight Analysis Framework (FAF) , “which integrates data from a variety of sources to create a comprehensive picture of freight movement among states and major metropolitan areas by all modes of transportation.”. trillion in 2015). The article goes on: Last March, the U.S.

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