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Digitisation: Shifting Gears in 2021

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Logistics service providers set up their portals to more efficiently deal with and manage ad-hoc quotations and bookings. The book author is FT, Forbes, Fortune, BI and Nikkei contributor. LogiSYM—Vietnam Digital 2020 – LogiSYM December/January 2021. Then Covid-19 came into play. MORE FROM THIS EDITION.

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Redesign to Improve Value: A Case Study of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

I also think that Quintiq’s leadership in concurrent planning to solve new problems is promising, especially in the design of transportation and inventory flows. For example, we discovered that transportation and duties are 5x the expense of labor and overhead. For example, we produce in Vietnam and China. Is it labor?

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This Week in Logistics News (April 20-24, 2015)

Talking Logistics

JDA “Writes the Book” on Supply Chain. Robinson Expands Asian Operations to Vietnam. For related commentary, see Drones – The Birth of a New Transportation Mode. You can download the book for free for a limited time, which I just did and plan to read on my way to JDA FOCUS 2015 this weekend.

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Global Production Levels Falling At the End of 2023

Supply Chain Matters

Commenting on the outlook for 2024, Chris Williamson, Chief Business Economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence noted in part: “ Given current order book trends, the overall picture from the survey is one of supply exceeding demand for many goods, which points to downside risks to production, employment and prices as we head into 2024.”

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Professor Yossi Sheffi on Resilience, Visibility, and Biggest Risks this Holiday Season

Elementum

Yossi Sheffi is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he serves as Director of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL). His latest book, The Power of Resilience: How the Best Companies Manage the Unexpected , was released this month. “The Supply chains have grown deeper, too.

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The Power of Outsourcing for Supply Chain Improvement

Logistics Bureau

Meanwhile, countries in Southeast Asia, such as Vietnam and Cambodia, are enjoying growth as offshore manufacturing centres. It could even provide you with an instantly established means of economical transportation and inventory storage. So book a free consultation call with one of our outsourcing experts today.

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Why Global Trade Agreements must be part of your supply chain planning: Guest Post by Tim Barnes

NC State SCRC

Tim is a global supply chain executive originally from Australia, who has been studying the evolution of the Trans Pacific Partnership closely, and is writing a book on the subject. Timothy Barnes is the President of Asia Pacific Consulting, based in Chapel Hill, NC and author of an upcoming book on TPP. Email: tbarnes@apac-nc.com.