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Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button

Supply Chain Shaman

The global supply chain that we know today is built on three assumptions: rational government policy, low variability, and availability of logistics. We can no longer assume that government policy is rational, variability is low or logistics are available. Focus on right-sizing inventories. This reset is not an evolution.

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The Greenest Mile: Planning’s Role in Supply Chain Sustainability

Logistics Viewpoints

Schneider Electric has committed to convert its 14,000 fleet vehicles to electric by 2030. If we don’t plan better, efforts in procuring sustainable palm oil, making medicine with less carbon, or delivering to customers with electric vehicles can still be built on top of inefficient processes that waste the savings we made.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 8-12, 2018)

Talking Logistics

The VP of Supply Chain and Logistics at our house (aka my wife) has been out of the country this week. I have to go to the grocery store again today to replenish our inventory (yeah, I don’t shop for groceries online; as the son of a bodegero, I’m old fashioned that way.). Hurricane Michael: How Can Logistics Professionals Help?

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Supply Chain Matters COVID-19 and Ukraine Conflict News Capsule Update- October 25 2022

Supply Chain Matters

Trillion by 2030. . The Wall Street Journal Logistics Report indicated late last week that: “ the backup of container ships off the Southern California coast that was at the heart of the U.S. It is becoming clearer that supply chain procurement and logistics teams elected to route import shipments thru either U.S.

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Driving Sustainable Growth Through Supply Chain Resilience

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

A research from Google, Temasek Holdings and Bain & Co showed the region’s online spending could reach $1 trillion by 2030. This is forcing organisations to change the way business and logistics management are being handled to improve forecast accuracy, ensure compliance, reduce costs of goods and to handle delays effectively.

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TMS Delivers on NASSTRAC’s Five Common Sense Suggestions for Shippers

Supply Chain Collaborator

Lean inventory control, just-in-time manufacturing and real-time shipment tracking have become the new standard in many industries and that means that transportation is a much more critically important stakeholder in success than before. Today’s transportation professionals need more than just an understanding of logistics operations.

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Five Trends That Excite Me!

Supply Chain Shaman

Traditional procurement functionality in SRM focused on improving transactional efficiency. Future of Analytics in the Building of Supply Chain 2030. In addition, the use of telematics, i.e. GPS and RFID, in logistics enables the building of accurate Estimated Time for Arrival (ETA) and the continued automation of logistics.