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The Bumpy Road to Building Outside-in Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

Neils here is some feedback to consider: VMI: Vendor-managed inventory logic enables the downstream trading partner to manage inventories and the sell-through the channel. The problem was that VMI is a ship through model whereas supply chain planning is a ship from model with different granularity. What do others think?

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Supply Chain Automation – Is Australia Ready?

Logistics Bureau

Imagine your inventory system automatically placing orders when stock runs low, your warehouse robots picking and packing orders 24/7, and your delivery routes optimizing themselves based on real-time traffic conditions. The system validates the order, checks inventory, allocates stock and generates picking lists in seconds.

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CeMAT Southeast Asia & LogiSYM Asia Pacific 2025: Robotics Drive Forward as Supply Chains Strategize

Logistics Viewpoints

Bob Gill, General Manager of ARC Advisory Group (right), presented the award to Dave Ching, Head of Sales for Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand (left). trade policies on sourcing strategies, inventory flows, and distribution networks amid rising costs.

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The ShipBob Story with Dhruv Saxena

The Logistics of Logistics

Dhruv and co-founder Divey Gulati founded ShipBob from their apartment, going to extreme lengths to get the startup off the ground in 2014 – including marathon coding sessions and poaching their first ShipBob customers while they waited in long lines at post offices to ship their packages! About ShipBob. Dhruv’s LinkedIn.

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Is Nearshoring the Solution to Rising Transportation Costs?

Logistics Bureau

In Australia for example, many of the countries that would be classed as offshore to an American company, such as China, might more accurately be described as nearshore. ports can help worldwide shipping to move more fluidly. The difference between offshoring and nearshoring is merely a question of distance.

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Restructuring Global Value Chains & Tariff Reduction – A Continuous Evolution for Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

are reporting that they are being inundated with requests from importers seeking to use provisions such as the “321 de minimis” rule, which allows goods worth less than $800 to be shipped to the U.S. Many companies buy forward inventory ahead of tariffs being implemented. For instance, law firms and consultants in the U.S.

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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

Logistics Viewpoints

I was on the phone with Australia, China, Indonesia – really everywhere – trying to negotiate directly with suppliers. For example, when a UPS strike was looming last year, the Interos solution automatically highlighted Cooper’s strategic suppliers that relied on UPS for shipping. But there was a cost to this.