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

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply chain resilience is a hot topic the last few years since post-Covid issues and newsworthy incidents like the Houthi attacks in the red sea have raised awareness. The bridge collapse is a stark reminder of the vulnerability of the nation’s aging infrastructure and the importance of supply chain resilience.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

Now, Walmart is also implementing robotic automation in its Canadian distribution network, with goals including making the process of getting products from trailers into the facility 90% faster than doing it manually in an effort to boost productivity, reduce strain on associates, increases shipping accuracy, and enhance data and analytics.

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MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics with Chris Caplice

The Logistics of Logistics

Chris Caplice and Joe Lynch discuss MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics and a wide range of logistics and supply chain topics. Caplice is the Chief Scientist for DAT Freight and Analytics. The MicroMasters is an advanced, professional, graduate-level foundation in Supply Chain Management.

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Amazon’s AWS Supply Chain Joins the B2B Supply Chain Platform Race

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech highlights yet another Cloud based B2B supply chain control layer platform announcement, this time from Amazon’s AWS Cloud computing division. East ( Northern Virginia ), U.S. The Announcement.

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Annual “Doing Good with OM and OR” Workshop focused on making an impact on society

NC State SCRC

On Friday, November 17 th , the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative hosted its 3 rd annual Doing Good with OM and OR Workshop. First, significant opportunities exist to (continue to) use empirical and analytics OM and OR methods to better understand and drive improved performance in healthcare operations.

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Warehousing News Roundup: April 22, 2019

Stord

The use of predictive analytics in supply chain operations rose by 76% from 2017 to 2019 , according to survey data. This number will likely increase going forward – 57% said they aren’t using predictive analytics now, but plan to in the future. Any big stories we missed? Thoughts or comments?

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Nestlé USA and Enterra Solutions Sign Multi-Year Cognitive Computing Agreement

Enterra Insights

The agreement calls for Enterra to provide a next generation analytics and insights platform along with other business applications to Nestlé. Enterra has been working with Nestlé USA for several years and together, the companies have developed and will continue to deploy an industry-leading advanced analytics and insights capability.