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Malaysia a Key Link in Asia’s Disaster Resilience Plan

MIT Supply Chain

How can the region build the capacity it needs to respond effectively to these crises? This was one of the main talking points at the 2013 Health & Humanitarian Logistics Conference, hosted by the Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation (MISI) in Malaysia this June.

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Emerging Supply Chain Trends – A Look at Evolving Finished Vehicle Logistics Amid Market Shifts and Trends

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Major Trends: Volatile Production, Capacity Crisis & The Need for EV Automotive manufacturing is experiencing a huge global transformation compared to the past. 2023 Outlook for Vehicle Exports and Global Ocean Freight With COVID-19 regulations relaxing worldwide, both car production and the consumer demand for new vehicles is surging.

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Plan for greater success: What experts said at Quintiq World Tour Singapore 2015

DELMIA Quintiq

Dr Mahender Singh (Founding CEO & Rector, Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation): The simplest thing UPS does is: No left turns for truck routes, only right turns. Freight Exchange is a software platform for excess freight capacity. This software platform connects spare capacity to demand.

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Solar panel logistics: tariffs waived for 24 months

Kanban Logistics

In recent months, the US Commerce Department has been investigating whether “imports of solar panels from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam are circumventing tariffs on goods made in China.” Our warehouse has rail siding to handle incoming or outgoing freight directly between the warehouse and rail cars.

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Ho Ho No! Port Congestion and Supply Chain Delays Threaten to Disrupt Christmas

Resilinc

The extreme port congestion and container shortages that drastically reduced shipping out of Southern China last month have eased, but as freight volumes from Yantian and other Pearl River Delta ports recover, the rebound will send another wave of disruptions through the troubled global shipping network, according to American Shipper.

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From Triage to Transformation… Building Resiliency with Agile Supply Chains

LevaData

For those organizations who had already reduced their dependency on China, many had moved production to Malaysia. While the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan served as a precursor, the shutdown of Malaysia followed shortly. Never let a good crisis go to waste. How to play the new game.

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From Triage to Transformation… Building Resiliency with Agile Supply Chains

LevaData

For those organizations who had already reduced their dependency on China, many had moved production to Malaysia. While the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan served as a precursor, the shutdown of Malaysia followed shortly. Never let a good crisis go to waste. How to play the new game.