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Pandemic Underscores Necessity of TMS and Other Supply Chain Tech Tools

Supply Chain Collaborator

The Novel Coronavirus pandemic is absolutely playing havoc on supply chains globally and for numerous reasons. For some shippers it is collapsing demand and leaving unprecedented idle capacity. While for others, it is resulting in instant peak volume outside of regular seasonal peaks.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 27 – June 2)

Logistics Viewpoints

Executives are plotting alternate supply chains or devising products that can be made elsewhere should China’s hundreds of thousands of factories become inaccessible. semiconductor company Micron Technology, citing national-security risks. And now on to this week’s logistics news. The facility, which spans 390,000 sq.

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E2open’s Ocean Shipping Index Reveals Notably Improved Cross-Ocean Transit Time for Global Freight Deliveries

E2open

NYSE: ETWO), the connected supply chain SaaS platform with the largest multi-enterprise network, today released the Q4 2022 edition of its Ocean Shipping Index, a quarterly report that offers data-driven insights to better manage the movement of goods around the globe and on key lanes between Asia, North America, and Europe.

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Optimizing Last-Mile Fulfillment for FMCG Businesses in the Middle East

Locus

Food delivery platforms like Deliveroo and Otlob in Egypt and Careem NOW in Saudi Arabia have also started offering groceries on their platforms alongside their roster of meals from restaurants. For instance, in Abu Dhabi, trucks with a capacity greater than 6 tonnes cannot travel on certain roads.

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E-commerce Fulfillment: Everything you need to know

Vinculum

E-commerce fulfillment entails, in a nutshell, the supply chain of items that are sold online. was witnessed in UAE, followed closely by Saudi Arabia at 3.8%. The supply chain of items sold online, business-to-business (B2B) or business-to-consumer (B2C), is known as e-commerce fulfillment.

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Why Logistics Management is the Need of the Hour in the Middle East?

Shipsy

An efficient Logistics management software, provided by companies like Shipsy, offers a seamless way of handling this challenge. The software also comes up with a “customer app” that facilitates the customers to reschedule the delivery in case of non-availability, which further minimizes the chances of returning products to the source.

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Oil & Gas Companies Focus on Eliminating Supply Chain Waste

Talking Logistics

For the past few years I’ve been using that phrase, which you typically find in investment literature, when making the case for innovation in supply chain management. trailed both Saudi Arabia and Russia in oil production, and it trailed Russia in natural gas production. As the table below shows, back in 2008, the U.S.