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The Future of Autonomous Supply Chains Part 1: Autonomous Shipping

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Autonomous supply chains can also help businesses by enabling new business models, such as direct-to-consumer, subscription-based, and circular, and creating new sources of revenue and competitive advantage. Autonomous Shipping Autonomous shipping is the use of self-driving vessels to transport goods and passengers across waterways.

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Reimagine Supply Chain of the Future – agile, resilient, and balanced – LogiSYM July 2020

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This year (2020) when they cancelled the Tournament, they stand to get 144 mil $ from Insurance company. Diversify supplier base : Supply chain should not be overly dependent on long lead-time or on a small pool of specific suppliers or sourcing regions. Identify sourcing plant/s which can back-up each other in times of disruptions.

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Capitalising on Supply Chain Digitisation with Robotic Process Automation – 10 Areas of Opportunities – LogiSYM August 2020

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Procurement can also have RPA do dynamic searches of websites to source or conduct market research for future buys and tenders. Costs reduction of sourced materials is one way to drive down costs but manually conducting price lookups on multiple options for hundreds of products can prove untenable very quickly.

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Current State of International Transportation Industry – LogiSYM October/November 2020

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Key features include the tracking of concise milestones to bring supply chain transparency, a completely digital document repository to facilitate real time sharing and confirmation of shipping documents, exception management, and many other collaboration tool-kits. a) Real-time Shipping Milestones. c) Collaborative Chat.

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Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution – Possibly the Most Important Supply Chain

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Source: US DoD. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is mostly being shipped from Kalamazoo, Michigan directly to the point of use. Pfizer’s plan utilizes strategic transportation partners to ship by air to major hubs and then distribute by ground transportation to dosing locations. The Vaccines. Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine.

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Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution – Possibly the Most Important Supply Chain

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The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is mostly being shipped from Kalamazoo, Michigan directly to the point of use. Pfizer’s plan utilizes strategic transportation partners to ship by air to major hubs and then distribute by ground transportation to dosing locations. The Vaccines. Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine.

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2024 Supply Chain Predictions – Relative Stability and a Migration to the Mean

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Media sources are filled with prognostication. The chart below shows that the index decreased to a value below zero earlier this year, for the first time since 2020. Container Shipping There have been recent reports publicizing the rapid decline in container shipping rates. Today these factors appear insignificant.