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The New Significance of a Logistics Strategy: Role, Success factors, and Integration

Logistics Viewpoints

Here are some good examples: The Australian retailer Woolworths dominated Australian online trade in the sector food and personal care with a volume of about two billion USD and a market share between 15 and 20 percent within just a few years of entering the online market. One example is combining the IoT with cloud technologies.

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Elon Musk Ensures that Product Development is Not Siloed

Logistics Viewpoints

One of the ideas at the heart of the discipline of supply chain management is the importance of collaboration. I attended the SAP Spend Connect Live conference in Vienna, Austria a couple weeks ago. He said to the head of production design at SpaceX, for example, “you are responsible for the production process.

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Shipping Container Shortage–Another Bullwhip Example

Operations and Supply Chain Management

In December, spot freight rates were 264% higher for the Asia to North Europe route, compared with a year ago, according to Mirko Woitzik, risk intelligence solutions manager at supply chain risk firm Resilience360. For the route from Asia to the West Coast of the U.S., rates are up 145% year over year. to Asia are “going back empty.”.

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COP26: 5Zs that changed the world

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Very positively, these topics have not only been discussed at COP26 but multiple initiatives were launched with some of them having the potential to significantly contribute to decarbonizing the global supply chain network. The third Z – Zero emission technology: First Movers Coalition. Roughly half of .

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How 2011 Prepared Us for Today

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But few remember the stress the 2011 event placed on global supply chains. . The interdependence of the global supply chain guaranteed the effects would extend far beyond the Japanese economy. . Thankfully, by 2011 the global supply chain had an arsenal of weapons to help combat the economic aftershocks of the disaster.

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Global Manufacturing Activity Levels Stabilize in February

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters provides highlights of February 2023 reported global and regional PMI indices which appear to indicate some stabilization within global supply chain networks. Countries experiencing sequential monthly lows were noted as France, Austria and Germany , the latter recording a 46.3

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How Procurement can prepare for Omicron

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We’ve already seen this happen in countries like Austria and the Netherlands, and the danger is a vaccine-resistant variant sends further parts of the world back into lockdown. For example, are border closures causing snags in your supply chain? For example, are border closures causing snags in your supply chain?