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Elon Musk Ensures that Product Development is Not Siloed

Logistics Viewpoints

I attended the SAP Spend Connect Live conference in Vienna, Austria a couple weeks ago. Here is one excerpt from the book that highlights this theme. The discipline has done a good job of driving collaboration between sales and marketing and manufacturing, procurement, and logistics.

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COP26: 5Zs that changed the world

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

15 countries, Austria, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Uruguay and Wales declared that they will collaborate towards realizing 100 percent zero emission new trucks and bus sales by 2040. MORE FROM THIS EDITION.

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Shipping Container Shortage–Another Bullwhip Example

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Chinese tech giant Alibaba’s logistic arm Cainiao launched a container booking service last week in response to the global shortage. Chinese tech giant Alibaba’s logistic arm Cainiao launched a container booking service last week, citing the global shortage. to Asia are “going back empty.”. Trade surplus furthers container imbalance.

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Global PMI Levels in August Remain Sluggish

Supply Chain Matters

The lowest production performance and associated supply chain activity levels were reported as that of Germany , Austria , Czech Republic , United Kingdom and Poland. Output has fallen back into decline after a brief respite in July amid an increasingly steep deterioration in order books. representing a 1.2

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September and Q3 Global PMI Levels Remain in Contraction

Supply Chain Matters

Reportedly, with the exception of Greece , all other EU countries registered PMI declines, with Germany and Austria having the fastest rates of production declines. average of the three months of Q3, declined 1.5 percentage points from the average of Q2, and a significant 4.8 percentage point drop from the average of Q1.

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Innovators and Entrepreneurs: Destruction and Disruption

Enterra Insights

” Born in Austria, he eventually emigrated to America and became a professor at Harvard University. ”[1] If you have never heard of Joseph Schumpeter, Wikipedia describes him as “one of the most influential economists of the early 20th century.”

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The Great Maersk Shift

Freightos

Advantages Beyond Shipment Booking and Execution. But the Maersk website, which the company cites as one of the top ten global B2B websites by revenue, likely generates far more in terms of searches, booking, and tracking data. By the end of 2019, 24% of spot shipments were booked using Spot. It’s worked.