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This Week in Logistics News (September 2 – 8)

Logistics Viewpoints

Logility , a provider of prescriptive supply chain planning solutions, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Garvis, a visionary SaaS startup founded in Antwerp, Belgium that combines large language models with AI-native demand forecasting. Walmart has spent $3.5

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The Supply Chain Response to India’s Second Wave of Covid!

Supply Chain Game Changer

India’s second wave of Covid article and permission to publish here provided by Ajay Jha. April 2021 saw India grappling with Covid- 19 again. Between the 2 nd and 3 rd week of April itself, India had recorded 38 lakh new cases. An important point to note here is that India has adequate oxygen production.

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Supply Chain Experiencing High Rate of Terrorist Attacks

Material Handling & Logistics

Supply chain terror attacks occur at higher rates include Colombia, India, and Turkey. “It For example, following the Paris attack in November 2015 France imposed stricter controls along the borders with Belgium and Luxembourg, costing companies an additional $59 per delayed vehicle. million within the first month following the attack.

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Is it time to take your supply chain glocal?

Kinaxis

Their regional menus offer things like the Chicken Maharaja Mac in India, the Croque McDo in Belgium and the KiwiBurger in New Zealand. Global companies have been using glocalization for years when it comes to products and services. Restaurant mega chain McDonald’s is an example easily identified by most.

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GrandVision: “We are changing completely as we become demand driven”

Supply Chain Movement

Many of these stores are recognised under banners such as Apollo-Optik in Germany, Générale d’Optique and GrandOptical in France, Pearle in the Netherlands, Belgium and Austria and Vision Express in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Poland, Hungary, the Middle East and India to name just a few.

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Bridging the Finance Gap for Asian SMEs

MIT Supply Chain

The framework is part of a working paper published by MISI for the SWIFT Institute, the Belgium-based financial services research organization. Take, for example, the plight of banana growers in West Bengal, India. SWIFT sponsored the research that MISI carried out for the paper, titled Financing the SME Value Chains.

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The things we’ve seen, in 2019

DELMIA Quintiq

Fifteen new startups from Belgium, China, France, India, South Africa and the U.S. This represents a major step forward in our mission to lead the digital transformation of life sciences in the age of personalized medicine and patient-centic experience.