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Driving Sustainability in the Age of Supply Chain Disruption

Logistics Viewpoints

Combined with the heightened concerns regarding climate change and associated sustainability impacts, all businesses should consider and assess these changes using the lens of environmental sustainability. Emerging technologies play a role in managing disruption and are driving change in the transportation and logistics industries.

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Who said supply chains are boring?: Using GPS to track cargo.

Supply Chains Rock

Using GPS to track cargo containers. Many months ago I blogged about some new services that were being created to help shippers track cargo using wireless technologies. Do you have any information on the other interesting albeit more passive RFID in container transportation? SCM Blogroll. SCM Lowdown. SCM Research.

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Who said supply chains are boring?: Transporter 3: Logistics future.

Supply Chains Rock

Transporter 3: Logistics future or Hollywood tricks? This weekend I watched " Transporter 3 " the action movie about an ex-military expert that uses his superior driving skills and an Audi A8 to deliver "packages" for clients in remote areas in record time. Anyway, in the opening sequence a giant cargo ship is loaded with containers.

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Bringing Augmented Reality to Supply Chain

Elementum

Application of AR in SCM. Issues such as continuity planning, cost control, risk management, and supplier/partner relationship management impact SCM. Transportation Optimization - Logistics technologies have evolved to become more efficient and secure in delivery.

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Who said supply chains are boring?: 6. Winfield Scott: A Native.

Supply Chains Rock

Logisticians are dazzling masterminds who use ingenuity to transport cumbersome supplies across vast distances and over some of the worlds most challenging terrain. These transportation experts used manpower and pure mechanical force to get things where they needed to be. SCM Blogroll. Public Policy & Sustainability Blog.

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Is Hyperloop the Next Great Supply Chain Technology?

Kinaxis

Hyperloop is a theoretical transportation technology, a long-awaited “fifth avenue” of transportation that uses vacuum tubes and linear induction motors to shuttle pressurized air capsules along a track, using a lack of friction to achieve speeds as high as 700 mph (approx. So it doesn’t hurt to see what’s on the horizon. 1126km / h).

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Bringing Augmented Reality to Supply Chain

Elementum

Application of AR in SCM. Supply chain management (SCM) involves the flow, storage, and delivery of goods, services and inventory for consumers. Issues such as continuity planning, cost control, risk management, and supplier/partner relationship management impact SCM.