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This Week in Logistics News (July 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

This was part of the reason the company missed its 2008 goal to reduce aircraft emissions by 20 percent by the end of 2020. New aircraft purchases are focused around twinjets such as the Boeing 767 and 777. FedEx now has a mission to be carbon-neutral by 2040. Rob Spilman Jr., Rob Spilman Jr.,

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Supply Chain Management:Importance of Proactive Master Data.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Industrial Manufacturing. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. For instance, if Product-Location has procurement type In-House Production ("E") and if it is missing a corresponding PPDS PPM, then we flagged it as an error code. Automotive.

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100+ Supply Chain Crisis Statistics: Raw Materials, Covid-19, Labor Shortages, and More

ToolsGroup

82% of people have concerns that the supply chain will ruin life plans, such as birthdays, vacations, holidays, and the purchasing of necessary items. 49% of respondents were from the manufacturing industry, 16% from the mechanical engineering sector, and 11% from the automotive market. Material Handling & Logistics ). McKinsey ).

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4 Use Cases of the IoT in Retail: Operations Transformed for Greater Efficiency and Profitability

GlobalTranz

This information is continually being applied to enhance your life, but the applications of the IoT in retail and manufacturing does much more than managing the tasks of one person. Per Bill Chamberlin of Forbes magazine , new revenue opportunities will include fewer lost purchases due to long waits or being “out of a certain item.”.

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A Conversation with Vittorio Favati, TVS Supply Chain Solutions GFS

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The experience stems from the ground up as an operator, then assuming global roles spanning Asia, Europe, and North America and the journey has been incredibly exciting and fulfilling. We managed the supply chain for China’s largest manufacturer with close to US$500m in logistics spend. This is in a position to shift again.

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution and why cash flow is at its center

Taulia

What was first coined in Germany in 2006 as a manufacturing initiative, is now a global technology-led revolution. Following the 2008 Financial Crisis, banks are no longer the default option for liquidity. These networks create new levels of transparency, automate the purchase-to-pay cycle and elevates insight and business agility.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 19 – 25)

Logistics Viewpoints

The potential supply chain impacts of this conflict dwarf any other supply chain news that might be reported. They apply their own human expertise plus machine learning to this Big Data to predict estimated times of arrivals and pricing. Energy cost increases, in turn, often lead these companies to raise their prices.