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Cold Chain Basics with Andy Bahr

The Logistics of Logistics

Andy is hungry to deliver value to everyone he meets, has a passion for the logistics profession, and truly looks for win-win partnerships. Documentation. A cold chain is a temperature-controlled supply chain for perishable food products, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals in order to maintain their quality and increase their shelf-life.

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The Green Corridor: Food for Thought

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The process of extracting mineral wealth such as gold, diamonds or oil for instance has been well documented to cause environmental harm as well as societal harm in some countries. Do their methods and documented standards meet your organisation’s values or does more need to be done? Test the supplier’s methods.

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Green Corridor: Gemba Your Way to Green!

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Compel staff to think twice before printing out hard copies of any document! Tim Foote runs Susymbio, a boutique consulting firm advising clients on e-commerce logistics solutions and provides sustainability program management services. Replace florescent lights with LEDs! Forgo disposable plastic utensils!

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Electronic Data Interchange or EDI in Transportation: Breaking Down What it is and How It Works

GlobalTranz

We take pride at Cerasis, as a third party logistics company who has developed a proprietary web-based transportation management system , to offer technology solutions to our shippers so they may remain as efficient as possible and have access to information at their fingertips. History of EDI and EDI In Transportation and Logistics.

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Insights from Elemica reveal 2014 Frankfurt

Talking Logistics

the biggest challenge supply chain and logistics professionals face today is not change, which is something they have always faced, but keeping up with the rapid pace of change across a variety of dimensions — technology, regulations, economic and political landscapes, demographics, and so on.

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Trends 2022: Quantum Computing

Enterra Insights

This may be a reaction to the ongoing supply chain crisis, which quantum could help relieve through its potential to solve complex optimization problems common in shipping and logistics.” ” It wasn’t long ago that quantum computers existed only in the minds of computer scientists and physicists. New States of Matter.

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The Power of the Network: ERP vs. Spend Management

Logistics Viewpoints

There are several hold types, but in Oracle the setting ‘Hold all new purchasing documents’ stops the ability to release any new purchase orders to a specific supplier site. We do work in the pharmaceutical and chemical industry, Mr. Bureau explained. “If What if a company should not be doing business with problematic suppliers?