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Breakbulk Americas with Jeff Tucker

The Logistics of Logistics

Breakbulk Americas , is the region’s largest trade event for the project cargo and breakbulk industry. This event will feature over 200 exhibitors, showcasing innovative solutions to aid industry progress globally and foster high-value deals among ocean carriers, ports, logistics providers, road transportation, export packers and many more.

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Pandemic Lessons For Supply Chain Leaders

Supply Chain Shaman

This means building a cognitive engine to sense, learn, and adapt using market data for innovators. Advanced planning evolved with a focus on modeling manufacturing constraints. Initially, the output was published to procurement to design strategic buying strategies. Procurement: Purchase price variance and procurement cost.

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Straw Pallets – A Game Changer?

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

However, environmental concerns of waste generated from disposing used pallets have led to innovative ideas using alternative materials to match the robustness and cost effectiveness of the wood or plastic pallet. One such idea set to be a game changer is the introduction of straw pallets from Eco-Pak.

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How to Manage Supplier Risk and Performance in an Uncertain Global Economy

ivalua

Essentially every company that manufactures goods today depends on other companies to supply the raw or value-added materials that go into their finished products. The job of procurement is to ensure performance is as promised, risk is low and business objectives are being met through collaboration.

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Using Technology to build Sustainable Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

In fact, IDC predicts that manufacturers across Asia who digitally transform and accelerate sustainable innovation to improve supply chain operations, will increase their revenue by 20 percent in 2025. For reasons of climate change and profitability rewards, maintaining a more sustainable approach to the supply chain is obvious.

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Better Ways to Address Trade-Offs with Supply Chain Optimization

Logistics Viewpoints

He had a load full of cotton bales, and while idling away hours at a shipyard watching stevedores load other cargo onto ships he dreamed up containers that transformed global supply chains. Operational innovations like the invention of containers led to the huge growth in global value chains, and today 95% of manufactured goods move on ships.

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The Impending Ocean Carrier War on Last Mile Fulfillment

Freightos

On the horizontal carrier integration front, Maersk has doubled down on its extension from ocean consolidation (Hamburg Sud, 2017) to air cargo, increasing Maersk Air by 33% with three leased cargo planes and two new Boeing purchases. Image via StarAir.dk). Behind the Maersk shift. One goal, two different motivations.