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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? When disasters strike the response depends on the ability to mobilize logistics capacity – facilities, equipment, stocks, and personnel – in restoring livelihoods for affected populations and continuity for affected businesses.

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Good-bye siloed, functional planner. Hello storm chasing network planner.

Kinaxis

Supply chain planners (I’m lumping in all the silos, including demand, supply, inventory and capacity planning) today are dealing with challenges that were unimaginable when Lotus notes were the next big thing. 2015 – Nepal earthquake, 7.8 Times have changed. Let’s just look at some events: 2017 – Hurricane Irma (plus others).

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Digitizing the COVID Vaccine: India’s Got This Figured Out

NC State SCRC

The manufacturing capacity for vaccines in India is massive: The Serum Institute produces 50M vaccines per month in a single plant, and can produce 1.5B They are also supplying Brazil and South Africa commercially with vaccines. The way the app works is as follows.

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10 questions about the benefits of S&OP for your organisation

Supply Chain Movement

Supply Chain Media and consultancy firm Involvation have developed this checklist to provide insight into the added value and the potential of your current S&OP process. Anticipate. The added value of S&OP varies from one company to another. Mauritania. Micronesia, Federated States of. Moldova, Republic of. Montenegro. Montserrat.

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Mindmap for the Fashion & Luxury Goods Market

Supply Chain Movement

One of the main supply chain challenges is increasing uncertainty; this makes demand planning very difficult, especially if there is no mid-season production capacity available for replenishment purposes when a product should prove to be very successful. Mauritania. Micronesia, Federated States of. Moldova, Republic of. Montenegro.