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Trends 2021: Megatrends, Part Two

Enterra Insights

Most analysts believe the future looks bright for renewable energy sources. This means that ever-more of our energy system can become less reliant on traditional sources such as coal, oil, and natural gas, thereby reducing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.”[3] ”[4].

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Handfield’s Supply Chain Analytics Predictions for 2014

Supply Chain View from the Field

In particular, the focal BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) represent major targets for expansion, but with them come a host of new problem that enterprises have little to no experience in dealing with in terms of logistics capabilities. Here is what I expect to see next year: Global supply chain footprints will continue to expand.

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Rapid Change is Driving the Automotive Industry – Part I

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Mobility changes will affect urban transportation because of too much traffic or to address environmental issues. They don’t see it as an enabler of global manufacturing and sourcing, or as a way of increasing customer loyalty through great service. In fact, we joke that BRIC should actually mean Better Rail Infrastructure and Customs.

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Collaboration: The New Battle Cry of Supply Chain

Supply Chain Network

Take for example the BRIC nations and the impact this region has across the global economy. In fact, all of the BRIC countries are now in the top 10 economies, with Brazil at 9, Russia at 6, India at 4 and China 2nd. The company sources the majority of its products from contract manufacturers in the Far East.

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Three Reasons Why I Love Hadoop, and You Should Too!

Supply Chain Shaman

Hadoop is an open-source software framework written in Java for distributed storage and processing of large data sets on computer clusters. Is this a sign of a looming recession or a transportation opportunity? The growth expectations of the BRIC countries is worrisome. As a result, the symbol for Apache Hadoop is an elephant.

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What’s New in 2015 for the supply chain world? See 2014?s predictions.

Supply Chain View from the Field

While it seemed like many companies would be moving more towards the BRIC countries, global events have proven this uptake to be relatively slow. With Amazon and others going to same day deliveries, the e-commerce boom is making transportation and delivery infrastructure more difficult to navigate.

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Trends in Sustainability: Deglobalization will accelerate in 2024

Freightera

The economic rise of the BRICs will continue vs the West Europe, then North America, has been the dominant economic force for hundreds of years. Local and regional transportation of organic and non-GMO foods is expected to be a growing sector in 2024. to global websites for international organizations and businesses.