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Panama Canal Drought: Lower Water Levels, Higher Supply Chain Risk

Resilinc

Due to the drought, the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) updated booking conditions for ships for the Panamax locks (the older locks of the Panama Canal used by smaller ships). Weight limits have also been adjusted, forcing some ships to unload and transport cargo to the other side of the canal via train—increasing transportation costs.

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Should the Supply Chain Profession Adopt Ethical Automation?

MIT Supply Chain

lu, an economist at the MIT Department of Economics, and co-author of the book The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty (Penguin Press, 2019). At the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics’s 2021 Crossroads conference, Acemo?lu One of them is societal inequality, according to Professor Daron Acemo?lu,

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Coronavirus & The CPG World: What to do now and how to prepare for the future?

Supply Chain Management and Analytics

Please feel free to book a meeting with me to discuss the challenges you have faced. Book a consultation session with Omer Bakkalbasi. Our AI/ML-driven platform immediately focused their attention on the demand increase in categories such as cleaning supplies, laptops, kitchenware, and books. Robert Koch Institute ).

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Coronavirus & The CPG World: What to do now and how to prepare for the future?

Supply Chain Management and Analytics

Please feel free to book a meeting with me to discuss the challenges you have faced. Book a consultation session with Omer Bakkalbasi. Our AI/ML-driven platform immediately focused their attention on the demand increase in categories such as cleaning supplies, laptops, kitchenware, and books. Robert Koch Institute ).

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How to be Productive during the Global Lockdown: The ThroughPut Playbook to Maintain your Output Levels

ThroughPut

As of right now, top lines have been essentially wiped out for industries like air transportation, freight, gastronomy, tourism, travel, and many more. These are uncertain times for businesses that are used to having cash flow, steady top lines, and predictable bottom lines.

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36 innovative companies re-inventing and rethinking supply chain and logistics

6 River Systems

With how quickly new technology, tips and warehouse management techniques are emerging, wouldn’t it be nice to take a page from someone else’s book? In 2018, iHerb opened its first international 3PL distribution center in South Korea, the first in the country since its laws changed to allow foreign ecommerce companies.

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Interoceanic Passages

Abivin

Global Maritime Routes and Chokepoints Maritime routes are a few kilometers wide corridors that connect economic regions and cross land transportation gaps. Major routes also involve the transport of raw commodities, including petroleum, grains, minerals, and food items. They form a continuum. More than 1.14

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