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Logistics Bureau Supply Chain and Logistics News Roundup, July 2022

Logistics Bureau

If the war in Ukraine encourages companies to stockpile inventory, it is only the latest of several factors driving divergence from the once-dominant lean supply chain model. That shift has seen enterprises distance themselves from just-in-time and lean practices and hedge against supply shocks by judicious inventory stockpiling.

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3PL Subway 2015: Strategic movements among logistics providers

Supply Chain Movement

SCM 3PL Subway 2015. Kazakhstan. Strangely enough, though, the order accuracy improvement has taken place at a lower level (from 60% to 66%) in 2015, whereas it improved from 67% to 72% in 2013. Following UPS’s failure to do so in 2013, FedEx succeeded in acquiring TNT in April 2015 in order to expand its European footprint.

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Updated IT Subway Map: Major acquisitions in SC software

Supply Chain Movement

Kazakhstan. In light of that, Infor’s acquisition of GT Nexus in August 2015 is understandable. A third notable take-over is that of Barloworld by US software supplier Llamasoft in September 2015. Such a system enables those companies to fulfil orders flexibly by dispatching the goods from various inventory points (e.g.