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This Week in Logistics News (November 17-21, 2014)

Talking Logistics

Menlo Logistics Keen to Build on 2014 Growth in South Asia. The robots keep coming — that was one of my predictions heading into 2014 (and the year before that too). The post This Week in Logistics News (November 17-21, 2014) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. A New Traffic Jam Hits L.A. in October.

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The Green Corridor – Logistics’ Role In Preventing The Next Pandemic

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Or how did trinkets made with ivory, whose trade has been globally banned since 1989, find its way to a black market in Thailand? I also advocated DHL to join United for Wildlife , a high-profile community founded by Prince William and The Royal Foundation in 2014. So how did an African pangolin end up in a food market in China?

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This Week in Logistics News (September 15-19, 2014)

Talking Logistics

Menlo Logistics Opening New Multi-client Warehouse in Ladkrabang, Thailand. The post This Week in Logistics News (September 15-19, 2014) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. Oracle Introduces New Cloud Solutions for Transportation and Global Trade Management. IAS ChassisManager Facilitates Street-Turns.

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Innovative Approaches to Supply Chain Risk

Kinaxis

This scenario played out for thousands of companies after the Japan earthquake, the Thailand floods and numerous other smaller scale disasters. Inventory management Supply chain risk management IBM Japan Natural disaster Risk management Supply chain Taiwan Thailand' Your heart sinks as you pick up the phone to call your boss….

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A chat with Scott Phillips

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Whilst I am Australian born, I was fortunate to have had an educational background spanning 3 continents, Australia, Thailand/Singapore and Denmark. I took up a role to develop and facilitate the regional S&OP program for BlueScope steel, spanning, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia.

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Extreme weather is risky business for supply chains

Resilinc

This is not because supply chains have been immune to climate change and extreme weather—on the contrary, the 2011 floods in Thailand are still remembered as a career-defining event in the supply chain profession—but because of the technical difficulties of attributing a specific event to climate change.

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How Pure Storage Withstood the Pandemic

Logistics Viewpoints

In 2014, the company’s revenues were $43 million. During his career he lived through the floods in Thailand and the Tsunami in Japan that disrupted global high-tech supply chains. Their solution is delivered in a storage-as-a-service model and supports a multi-cloud (Public, Private, or Hybrid) IT approach.