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How Disruptions like Coronavirus Test The Resilience Of Supply Chain Planning

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Avenues of transport are declining as major cargo airlines, like Cathay Pacific , drastically reduce flights to mainland China and Hong Kong. The virus continues to compromise supply chains and disrupt companies at a troubling rate, but a re businesses prepared from a supply chain planning perspective?

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This Week in Logistics News (November 4 – 10)

Logistics Viewpoints

Warehouse break-ins, accounting scams, and oil tampering are on the rise in the olive growing regions of Greece, Spain, and Italy. This oil was stolen in a series of warehouse break-ins. The company is also exploring the capabilities of generative AI technologies that power chatbots like ChatGPT. billion as U.S.

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How Disruptions like Coronavirus Test The Resilience Of Supply Chain Planning

AIMMS

Avenues of transport are declining as major cargo airlines, like Cathay Pacific , drastically reduce flights to mainland China and Hong Kong. The virus continues to compromise supply chains and disrupt companies at a troubling rate, but a re businesses prepared from a supply chain planning perspective?

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The Green Corridor: Catching the Sun Light! – How Logistics is Harnessing the Power of the Sun

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

In a NASA comparison , if a large power plant generated 1 billion watts of power in a year, it would take 44 million of these power plants to equal the power that our Earth receives from the sun. In addition to saving on electricity used in warehousing activities, the electricity in some cases can even be sold back to the grid.

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National Logistics Day 2023

Enterra Insights

Just 14 years later, the first air cargo flight took place in 1910. That includes packaging, warehousing, shipping, and more. ” You don’t have to convince supply chain professionals of the importance of logistics. By 1956, the first container ship sailed from the port of New Jersey to Texas.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 28 – June 3)

Logistics Viewpoints

Existing technology for EV batteries can only create cells that last up to 20 years or around 200,000 miles before their capacity drops too low to power a vehicle. This will certainly be an interesting area to watch, especially as electric vehicles become more commonplace and apply to the global supply chain.

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This Week In Supply Chain Management Tech- June 14 2022

Supply Chain Matters

In this regular edition of our featured column, Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Management Technology , we provide a capsule synopsis of noteworthy supply chain management focused technology news which we believe would be of specific interest to our global-based multi-industry supply chain readership.