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Doing Our Part To Help Logistics Companies Adapt to COVID-19

Freightos

Meanwhile, massive passenger airline restrictions dramatically reduced air cargo capacity, sending rates through the roof. WebCargo Sky , the world’s largest air cargo platform for live pricing, capacity assessment, and eBooking from global airlines. And, of course, then the potential recession started to tamper demand.

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Schneider Electric’s Works with EcoVadis to Drive Supplier Emissions Engagment

Logistics Viewpoints

EcoVadis is a purpose driven, for profit corporation based in Paris, France. EcoVadis’ focus is helping suppliers accelerate their journey by measuring and improving their sustainability management system, collecting and reporting their data, building capacity to ultimately drive reductions in impact.

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The move to rail: a look at China-Europe supply chains

Resilinc

Part of what is often called The New Silk Road, the freight rail network between France and China isn’t new but was initiated in 2011, according to CNN. And France isn’t the only European country with growing rail links to China. It’s growing dramatically however.

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Beware the Swinging Pendulum on Supply Chain Inventory Practices

Logistics Viewpoints

Concurrent means to “happen at the same time,” so applying this principle to the supply chain, any change, to any input across the supply chain can be considered and evaluated by demand, supply, distribution, capacity, and purchasing; in real-time.

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The Future of Supply Chains Post COVID-19 – LogiSYM July 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Such simulations would enable to assess the impact of a decrease/increase of demand, a capacity excursion in a factory or distribution centre. . Frederic Gomer Frederic Gomer – holds Master’s degree (MSc) in Material Science & Process Engineering Institute National Polytechnique de Grenoble – France.

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The Supply Chain Response to India’s Second Wave of Covid!

Supply Chain Game Changer

High capacity oxygen tankers were airlifted from UAE. France and Germany also extended their support with the supply of emergency medical equipment. France offered 8 oxygen generating plants that could be installed quickly along with 5 liquid oxygen containers, 200 electric syringe pushers, 28 respirators and their consumables.

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The Journey to End-to-End (E2E) Supply Chain Visibility Is Ongoing

Logistics Viewpoints

Trane ’s Tom France, Vice President, Global Distribution, Logistics and Transportation, recently stressed the need for E2E insight: “Extend visibility as much as you can throughout your supply chain. This is the portion of E2E that is most commonly referred to as “real-time transportation visibility”.