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Essential Skills for Supply Chain Leaders in Asia during Pandemic

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Changing Landscape of Supply Chain Executives Traditionally, supply chain executives excelled in managing functions like transportation, warehousing, inventory, and production planning but supply chain process extends beyond the firm, involving global relationships with suppliers and customers.

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Three Logistics Imperatives for Managing Uncertainty in 2022

Logistics Viewpoints

We watched as customers adopted new warehousing and transportation processes, new delivery modes, new technology tools and even entirely new network models that helped them succeed in the constantly changing “next normal” state that characterized 2020 and 2021. million employees.

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Sustainable Supply Chain Management.

ModusLink Corporation

Four fundamental practices: Based on (Ali Esfahbodi, 2016) research, Chinese and Iranian governments have focused their fight for SSCM based on four fundamental practices: sustainable procurement, sustainable production along with sustainable distribution , and reverse logistics. Do you need help figuring out how to become more Sustainable?

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Logistics Imperatives to Manage Uncertainty and Disruptions in 2022: Part 2

BlueYonder

The entire world owes a huge debt to the drivers , warehouse associates and other essential logistics workers who kept supply chains moving during the worst months of the pandemic. President Joe Biden recently announced a goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions in the country by up to 52% by 2030, compared to 2005 baseline levels.

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The History of Supply Chain Management! (Infographic)

Supply Chain Game Changer

pallets and pallet lifts) to improve the very labor intensive processes of material handling and how to take better advantage of space using racking and better warehouse design and layout. By the 1960s, a clear trend had developed in shifting more time-dependent freight transportation to truck rather than rail.

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Building Supply Chain Resilience Is Much More than Fixing Supply Problems

MIT Supply Chain

These disruptions include Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the Sendai disaster, the start of trade wars between the US and China in 2019, and the Covid-19 pandemic. a loss of capacity to ship and/or transport products. Transportation: Availability of mode, route, labor, and equipment. warehousing space) to several years (e.g.,

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Amazon Effect: What Does Amazon Teach Us With Its Obsession Over Customer Experience

Turvo

This includes the industrial space as business-to-business buyers in procurement, who have experienced shopping experience on Amazon, have come to both expect and demand a similar buying experience in their professional lives. . In 2005, the Amazon Effect started to lay hold when the company launched its Amazon Prime service.