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Strategic Priorities for Post Pandemic Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Many companies will reconfigure their supply chains to a much more regional approach, whereby production and sourcing are relocated closer to the final consumption markets, i.e. more local and less global. Digitalization Digital disruption is impacting most industries and people.

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Towards Successful Digital Transformation – Separating the hype from reality

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Futuristic road transportation technology with digital data transfer graphic showing concept of traffic big data analytic and internet of things. Source: Schumacher et al. With economies on the bounce-back, logistics continues to be the backbone of modern society and with the need for a lean freight sector.

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Experts Reveal Top Transportation Trends to Watch

Supply Chain Opz

James Winebrake, Dean of College of Liberal Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology There are a number of important trends happening in the freight industry, spanning all modes of transportation: trucking, shipping, rail, pipeline, and air. Lastly, air freight has been increasing rapidly over the past decade - a trend I suspect will continue.

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You Should Be Worried. Supply Chains Are Not OK. Let’s Lock Arms To Drive Change

Supply Chain Shaman

Value networks do not interoperate and the business leader trying to track shipments must manually sync multiple data sources to get to answers. Freight Rates 2019-2021. As a result, companies plug along planning based on historic lead times and freight rates which as you can imagine is doomed for failure.

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10 Technologies That Are Going To Change Your Life

Supply Chain Game Changer

Allow me to introduce the Internet of Things (IoT), the biggest agent of change in technology since the Gemini space program of the 1960s. Thanks to the ease at which data can be shared automatically between devices, we can tie together information from many different sources. DRONES WILL GO MAINSTREAM.

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6 Key Supply Chain and Logistics Trends to Watch in 2017

Logistics Bureau

Call it a cop-out if you like, but seriously, predicting which logistics and supply chain trends will make a difference to businesses in any given year has become notoriously difficult, given the speed at which technology in particular can suddenly disrupt the way things are done.

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Resilience for Supply Chain Decarbonisation

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

These includes Food, construction, fashion, fast-moving consumer goods, electronics, automotive, professional services and freight The reports say that only a small proportion of these emissions are produced during final manufacturing and that most are embedded in the supply chain. A resilient supply chain is agile, flexible, and responsive.