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Freight Rates News December 2015

Freightos

Check out our roundup of nearly 100 digital logistics/supply chain sources. The big retail sales season started better than expected, in the U.S. First up, no surprises, China slowdown and depressed commodity prices, then the lifting of sanctions on Iran. Freight and logistics trends that rate in the news. DECEMBER 2015.

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10 Vital Supply Chain Lessons from the Coronavirus Pandemic!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. Coronavirus Exposes Global Supply Chain Fragility! Every aspect of our lives has been disrupted: our health, freedom of movement, employment, the economy, our ability to buy goods, and virtually every Supply Chain. Supply Chain Disruptions … So Far.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 19 – 25)

Logistics Viewpoints

I thought I understood all the major supply chain implications of the pandemic until I began reading Yossi Sheffi’s new book The New (Ab)Normal: Reshaping Business and Supply Chain Strategy beyond Covid-19. The potential supply chain impacts of this conflict dwarf any other supply chain news that might be reported.

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Geopolitical Risks and the Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

Supply chain risk managers often feel like long-tailed cats in a room full of rocking chairs — everywhere they look a new risk appears. ”[1] Mike Rosenberg, a professor at the Iese Business School in Spain, insists understanding geopolitical risks is essential for supply chain managers.

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Sorry, I’m Not Sure: Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2018

Talking Logistics

I will be wrong again,” I stated last year before making my supply chain and logistics predictions for 2017 , and I was right. But I was right with some of my other predictions, especially my prediction that we would see a rise in cyber attacks in 2017, with supply chain and logistics operations becoming new targets.

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Nationalism is Changing the Face of Globalization

Enterra Insights

.” To be fair, the pandemic and the war in Ukraine have demonstrated that reliance on global supply chains can be risky. And the entrenchment of authoritarian governments in China, Russia, and elsewhere does little to reassure people that relying on global supply chains is a good idea. But it requires great effort.”

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Mindmap High-Tech Supply Chain 4.0

Supply Chain Movement

These developments impact Original Equipment Manufacturers, both at strategic level and at operational level within their supply chains. Together with service provider Arvato, Supply Chain Movement has created a mindmap outlining the route for high-tech supply chains, including road signs indicating potential hazards along the way. >>Please