SCMDOJO

APRIL 9, 2024

The Silk Road became a massively critical route that moved goods from the Mediterranean region to East Asia. In highly sensitive sectors like the military or medical logistics, this can help prevent damage and death. Goods and information flow are now managed and controlled in real-time, which is crucial for efficient logistics.

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As we have noted in this thread of updates, to a further extent, shipments from Asia eastward that traverse the Panama Canal are an important added backdrop to ocean transport disruption impacts. Our prior published update was on January 19 th.

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ivalua

MAY 9, 2023

73% of the 470 respondents spanning 9 countries across North America, Europe and Asia felt they outperformed their competitors across the top priorities in the past year. Military Academy at West Point and an international M.B.A. The remaining 27% felt they performed in line. Not one felt they performed worse than competitors.

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QAD

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Since its founding, Turkey has dealt with instability and military coups, although each time, the country returns to democracy. The country is located in southeastern Europe and southwestern Asia. Turkey was founded in 1923 from the remains of the Ottoman Empire, and it adopted many social, legal and political reforms.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Donna joined the military in her 20s after deciding that she wanted to serve her country. She shares with us her experience in the military, and what Veterans Day means to her. SCN: What branch of the military did you serve? Our Battle Group was awarded the Southwest Asia Service Medal. DW: I served in the U.S.

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BlueYonder

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Donna joined the military in her 20s after deciding that she wanted to serve her country. She shares with us her experience in the military, and what Veterans Day means to her. SCN: What branch of the military did you serve? Our Battle Group was awarded the Southwest Asia Service Medal. DW: I served in the U.S.

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QAD

JANUARY 9, 2020

With its central location in Asia and robust air infrastructure, Thailand is well-positioned to move goods by air. In the years since 2005, Thailand has endured much political unrest including a military coup in 2006. Thailand’s 63 paved airports moved 2,134,149,001 mt-km of freight in 2015. Political Landscape.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

MAY 8, 2013

In Thailand, workers at a factory producing Nike apparel were forced by military personnel allegedly hired by the manufacturer to sign a petition allowing them to be paid less than the minimum wage of $4 a day.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 2, 2018

cities have launched Smart City Logistics innovations and protocols, following the lead of Europe and Asia. ? To get the idea up and running, Amazon has pledged $1 million to fund startup costs ($10,000 in reimbursement costs per person) for qualified military veterans who want to start their own delivery businesses. Several major U.S.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 8, 2019

To get the idea up and running, Amazon has pledged $1 million to fund startup costs ($10,000 in reimbursement costs per person) for qualified military veterans who want to start their own delivery businesses.”[7] Think of it like auto glass replacement companies that come to wherever your car is to replace your windshield.

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RFgen

JANUARY 17, 2018

While the military was the primary industry driving primitive AR experimentation for decades, AR development has branched out to broader commercial and consumer applications within the last 10 years as well. They will be able to communicate instantaneously across great distances, comparing live data with a colleague in Asia.

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RFgen

JANUARY 17, 2018

While the military was the primary industry driving primitive AR experimentation for decades, AR development has branched out to broader commercial and consumer applications within the last 10 years as well. They will be able to communicate instantaneously across great distances, comparing live data with a colleague in Asia.

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NC State SCRC

AUGUST 14, 2020

We have seen large integrated delivery systems, individual hospitals (in and outside of these systems), government delivery systems including military and VA, prisons, nursing and senior residential facilities and rural hospitals and clinics all seeking products. Importantly, all have had access or lack of access to different sources.

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RFgen

APRIL 15, 2016

For example, RFgen works with a variety of military contractors that must guard against fraudulent parts and supplies – especially sent from particular regions in Asia. Working with partners overseas, however, opens a company up to honest mistakes and outright fraud, especially when geography stands in the way of visibility.

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RFgen

APRIL 15, 2016

For example, RFgen works with a variety of military contractors that must guard against fraudulent parts and supplies – especially sent from particular regions in Asia. Working with partners overseas, however, opens a company up to honest mistakes and outright fraud, especially when geography stands in the way of visibility.

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Freightos

AUGUST 26, 2015

consultation firm, runs four ‘Logistics Briefing’ newsletters: Global, Americas, Asia/Pacific and Mergers & Acquisitions. Senior Asia Editor at Journal of Commerce (JOC). Influences include military commander experience and Kaizen (Japanese philosophy of constant improvement). Ti Logistics Briefing. Ti_Research.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

On March 21, 1864, an ancestor of Biden got in a knife fight with another man in a Union military encampment. Particularly affected are routes from Asia to Germany, experiencing a remarkable 55% increase in transit times, resulting in an average delay of 12 days. GlobalFoundries will also make available another $1.6

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Material Handling & Logistics

JULY 25, 2018

Bad weather, such as typhoons and storms in Asia and the U.S., These disputes have resulted in increasing military presence in the South China Sea, with the U.S. The territorial claims and disputes may have larger implications long-term and threaten the freedom of the seas in South East Asia, with implications for trade with Asia.

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Vinculum

MAY 20, 2021

Primarily known for distributing Korean brands in its stores, it has gradually grown its footprint in Asia. Lazada Singapore: It gets an estimated 9 million unique visitors per month, making it the second most popular online shopping mall in Singapore but one hottest in Southeast Asia. Cigarette lighters.

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Vinculum

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Largely a nation that depended on its exports, Thailand has seen its fair share of ups and downs owing to military coups and near recession like situations in the last decade. The undisputed leader of the Thailand e-commerce marketplace, Lazada also has strong holdings in the rest of Southeast Asia. Lazada Thailand. Shopee Thailand.

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Vinculum

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The Philippines, an archipelagic nation doused by national debt, military coups and national disasters through the 80s and 90s, has bounced back stoically as one of Asia’s evolving markets. Zalora Philippines.

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Logistics Bureau

MARCH 6, 2018

Later we expanded into Southeast Asia and eventually opted for a model of centralised technical support in Sydney and consultants on the ground on a project basis. I decided to join the military high school. The business lesson for us was that we can’t get too distracted from the game. At age fifteen I was even thrown out of school.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 15, 2021

With over 25+ years of supply chain software experience, Chris is One Network Enterprises’ (ONE) Senior Vice President for the region, supporting partners and leading a team of sales and solution design specialists across Asia Pacific. Chris has a deep supply chain software consulting background.

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Elementum

JULY 18, 2016

Commercial vessels in the tens of thousands connect markets in East Asia with Australia, the Middle East, and Europe—including a third of the world’s liquefied natural gas—mostly bound for Japan and South Korea. Luckily to date, strong military presence in the region has not restricted the free movement of merchant vessels.

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Resilinc

MARCH 29, 2022

Compared to the military-style campaigns that sealed off entire neighborhoods for weeks at a time, local authorities are now using methods like “rolling lockdowns”—in which they confine residents of a single building for a couple days, test everyone, then lift restrictions if all residents test negative.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Many early explorers were looking for a shorter route connecting Asia to Europe. The Farmers’ Almanac notes Columbus Day epitomizes “the thirst for adventure, exploration, and possibilities” that characterizes the human spirit. They didn’t know two oceans and two continents lay in between.

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Logistics Bureau

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Your Italian company is negotiating the supply of aerospace products to a government in Asia. This would mean breaking the contract with the first supplier without just cause. Legal action by that supplier would be unlikely, because of its small size. Your American company is competing with the Italian company above for the same contract.

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Supply Chain Matters

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

As noted in our prior Supply Chain Matters postings three years ago, a published report had indicated Apple had requested major suppliers and contract manufacturers to evaluate the cost implications for shifting fifteen, to as much as thirty percent of production capacity from China to other Southeast Asia regions.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 9, 2022

According to the industry trade group Semiconductor Industry Association , upwards of 75 percent of chip production capacity resides in the East Asia region. Like much of global supply chain history, the high dependency on Asia based regions stemmed from total cost and technology access dimensions. More Strategic Stakes.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 26, 2018

For instance, while transpacific rates have dropped from 12 to 25 percent for shipments from Shanghai to Los Angeles or New York respectively, the cost of moving goods from Asia to Europe are uncomfortably up 16 percent over last year. This leads to rate fluctuations. The agony of natural disasters.

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Abivin

DECEMBER 5, 2022

These routes are typically found connecting important marketplaces with active commercial trade systems, such as Western Europe, North America, and East Asia. It serves as a detour for ships traveling between ports in Europe, America, and ports in southern Asia, eastern Africa, and Oceania.

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Supply Chain Management and Analytics

MARCH 29, 2020

Asia-centric business practices and possible changes in trade policies should be the initial points of reconsideration. . This pandemic is a “black swan” event and in fact has been predicted by many respectable institutions (e.g., Robert Koch Institute ). The value of scenario planning now and in the future has increased.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 19, 2022

The Farnborough International Airshow , an important trade exhibition event for the commercial aerospace and military defense industries is being held this week. ANA is the first 737 MAX customer in Japan and first carrier in Asia to choose the 777-8 Freighter.

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Supply Chain Management and Analytics

MARCH 29, 2020

Asia-centric business practices and possible changes in trade policies should be the initial points of reconsideration. This pandemic is a “black swan” event and in fact has been predicted by many respectable institutions (e.g., Robert Koch Institute ). The value of scenario planning now and in the future has increased.

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Resilinc

MARCH 14, 2023

Li-Bridge concluded that lithium batteries will become of the norm for vehicles manufactured over the next 50 years, and will also become commonplace in military systems, power grids, and consumer medical, and industrial electronics — making lithium batteries one the key technologies of the 21 st century.

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Supply Chain Movement

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

As Vice President Supply and Inventory Planning Europe and Asia, Jeroen van Weesep is helping to safeguard and sustain that transition in the supply chain. Alexander the Great is known for having lead the longest, uninterrupted military campaign of all time. In June of this year, he was voted Supply Chain Professional 2014.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Last week, the world’s largest EV maker completed a long-delayed project to expand capacity at Gigafactory Shanghai, where it builds Model Y SUVs and Model 3 sedans for customers in Asia and Europe. The talks cover more than 22,000 workers at 29 ports from California to Washington state that include major hubs for trade with Asia.

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