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Baltimore Bridge Collapse: An Opportunity to Reinforce the Importance of Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

For example, an agile supply chain may have real-time data, advanced analytics, decision support tools, and cross-functional teams to monitor, diagnose, and solve problems. The port serves as a gateway for importing vehicles from Europe, Asia, and South America, as well as exporting vehicles to the Middle East, Africa, and other regions.

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Handfield’s Supply Chain Analytics Predictions for 2014

Supply Chain View from the Field

I also worked with a team of leading thinkers in developing the Future of Procurement Report (published by KPMG) , as well as publish the BVL International Global Logistics Trends and Strategies report with a team of leading academics and executives in Europe, China, North and South America, Russia, and India.

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Is It Time to Concentrate on Climate Adaptation?

Enterra Insights

South America would say goodbye to cities like Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. East notes, “Sustainability analytics requires a lot of data from many different sources. East writes, “This sounds obvious, but there is a massive potential for sustainability analytics to become too big to handle. They are: 1.

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The Endless Complexities of the Ocean side of Supply Chains

SCMDOJO

In total, rollover rates in transshipment ports were up across every region except for South America, one of the smallest for global and regional transshipment activities. Transshipment rollovers in South America declined by 3% from 46% to 43% year-on-year.

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5 pieces to the global capacity management puzzle

Kinaxis

Ford has been around for 100 years and the five main regions of the company (North and South America, Asia, Europe and Middle/Eastern Africa) grew up individually. This includes analytics, planning rules, views and workflow. In the interview, David describes the challenges facing Ford in fitting the pieces together.

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Three Logistics Imperatives for Managing Uncertainty in 2022

Logistics Viewpoints

This dramatically cuts down on the physical and analytical demands placed on supply chain professionals every day. SuperFrio, a leader in the refrigerated logistics industry in South America, won the 2020 Energy Excellence Award given by the GCCA (Global Cold Chain Alliance), based on its sustainable supply chain improvements.

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Out of Africa

Supply Chain Shaman

Supply chain talent is primarily coming from North America and Europe, but these are the continents that represent the lowest levels of growth for supply chain 2020 (see figure 1). Most global multinational companies have a solid base now in South America and Asia, but the race is on for Africa.

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