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Supply Chain Leadership Driving Industry 4.0 & Resilience During Crisis – LogiSYM July 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Innovation and supplier management calls for cloud-based integrated systems between partners and advanced predictive models. The philosophy of lean, triggers us to look for the “Ideal Way”. Arguably, it is criticised that acting too lean can cause breakdowns in crisis. Decision Making. So, we need to ask, “what is the ideal?”;

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Ocean Shipping and Global Trade 2023

American Global Logistics

As the primary mode of transportation for goods across continents, it transports raw materials, finished products, and everything in between. The vast majority of goods, from automobiles to consumer electronics, are transported via container ships, making ocean shipping a critical enabler of international trade.

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Logistics helps North Carolina Reach CNBC Best State Status Again

Kanban Logistics

Prime East Coast location: North Carolina sits in the middle of the East Coast, midway between Miami and Boston, with easy access to several vital interstate highways like I-95, I-85, and I-40. That extends to logistics as NC has lower costs for industrial space, lower labor costs, and lower transportation costs (i.e.,

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Supply Chain Movement 20 – Trends & Consulting

Supply Chain Movement

12 | Profile Hans Willems, Vice President Supply Chain Europe, Boston Scientific. A Boston Scientific medical device is used somewhere in the world every two seconds, but the company is much more than a medical device manufacturer. Goods have to be transported across the globe and across the neighbourhood.

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Surviving Disruptions – an opportunity for supply chains to thrive with people and technology – LogiSYM July 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Supply chain trends and practices today, are mainly driven by cost optimisation and lean strategy. A pandemic-induced blow finally laid bare the vulnerabilities of the supply chain industry largely premised on lean production principles. Exposing supply chain vulnerabilities and fast-moving trends. Developing talent for the future.

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50 expert tips on supply chain management

6 River Systems

As global supply chains start the long process of recovery, supply chain management is in the spotlight, and new best practices and innovative strategies are emerging as supply chain leaders aim to reduce risk in an uncertain future. “Think beyond your four walls to how you can better collaborate and innovate with your suppliers.

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The Pandemic: A Multi-Year Experiment in Hybrid Work

Enterra Insights

Analysts from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) explain, “The best leadership teams have spent the past two years leaning into the changes COVID-19 has brought to their organizations. As a result, their companies will have a definitive customer, innovation, employee, and productivity advantage for years to come. .”