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What Shippers and Retailers Need to Know for Peak Season Planning 2022

The Logistics of Logistics

The ongoing Ukraine–Russia conflict has caused turmoil in significant parts of the global food chain, and in fact, Ukraine is a major exporter of barley (30% of global totals), wheat (25%), and sunflower oil (60%). Further, Ukraine supplies more than one-half of the world’s neon gas necessary for printing circuits on computer chips.

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This Week in Logistics News (April15 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

But I believe that more efficient packaging is the area with the greatest potential to improve sustainability metrics within the warehouse. Xeneta’s analysis also shows that Russia substantially increased its import of goods from China. In percentage terms, Vietnam’s exports grew the most.

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Supply Chain Leadership V: Howard Richman

NC State SCRC

When I was there, an employee’s base pay came every 4 weeks, and it would go up based on hitting certain metrics – Net Sales and Return on Total Assets. The only metric that mattered was how you were doing vs. the market and the competition – were you getting a lower price than Hershey or Nestle? I’ve never seen a culture like that!

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Economic Aspects of Supply Chains

American Global Logistics

However, there is a need for more precise and comprehensive metrics to understand the full economic impact of supply chains. Other geopolitical risks, such as tensions between Russia and Ukraine, along with unpredictable regimes in Iran and North Korea, have the potential to disrupt global supply chains as well. The cost of U.S.

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Make Bottleneck Management Your Biggest Priority

ThroughPut

Predictive analytics is a perfect example. Many intelligence tools aggregate data into a static series of metrics. Tools like predictive analytics can give companies better visibility into the issues and more insight into how much they need to save in the coming years. Understand the objective.

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When Variability Is Our Only Constant

Supply Chain Shaman

For manufacturers, it is about oil, gas, copper, helium, titanium, nickel, neon, and palladium from Russia and wheat, pig iron, and inert gases from Ukraine. Food instability in Africa could be an outcome because Russia and Ukraine supply 29% of worldwide wheat exports and 17% of corn with significant exports to the middle east and Africa.

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The Supply Chain Response to India’s Second Wave of Covid!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Russia sent covid assistance in the form of oxygen concentrators and generators. Saudi Arabia shipped 80 Metric tonnes of liquid oxygen to India and Portugal assured 20,000 litres of oxygen per week to India along with 5503 vials of Remdesvir. Belgium too chipped in to offer 9000 doses of Remdesvir.

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