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Unilever Supply Chain: Lessons Learned on Digital Transformation

RFgen

From the leftover Ben & Jerry’s in your freezer to the travel-size Dove lotion abandoned somewhere at the bottom of your toiletry bag, the business responsible for these familiar household staples is the multinational consumer goods company, Unilever. This insight helps Unilever understand who’s sourcing from whom.

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Global Supply Chain Recovery Dependent On A Vaccine

Supply Chain Shaman

The companies are just not good at managing inventories and orchestrating distribution strategies. The industry planning team expertise lags the consumer goods, and hi-tech industries. They are seldom cross-functional to optimize source, make, and deliver together. Be a good shipper. Rethink Manufacturing.

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Strong Supply Chains Required For an Economic Rebound: Six Steps To Take

Supply Chain Shaman

My first focus was on China sourcing. The healthcare value chain was slow to respond—the majority of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) was in Chinese warehouses. China was the source of over 90% of PPE.) Model Local Market Trends. A Sample Demand Pattern for Consumer Goods. Simplify Product Portfolio.

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Evans Distribution Systems Launches New Business Intelligence Tool: evans365

3PL Insights

The tool provides warehouse customers a holistic view of their account activity based on real-time data. “As Our customers identified a need for a data insight tool that shows trends in their inventory and transactions,” Evans says. The interactive dashboards allow customers to spot trends and understand activity on multiple levels.

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Why is the Port-Centric Logistics Model becoming popular?

20Cube Logistics

This resulted in inefficient transportation networks that consumed unnecessary time and cost. Through a Port-Centric Logistics model, the goods can be delivered directly from the port warehouses to the customers. All the goods and services are treated as fast-moving products as the urgency has become a norm.

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What is Supply Chain Resiliency?

Logistics Viewpoints

Supply chain disruption has many sources: tariffs and trade disputes, natural disasters, pandemics, economic uncertainty and cybersecurity attacks. There won’t be a new normal, just new sources of disruption, from weather to government policies to industry conditions. Price fluctuations and sourcing issues.

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Top 10 supply chain trends for 2020

Requis

Here are the supply chain trends that we see shaping the conversation, and the actual evolution, of B to B in 2020. In most of the supply chain trends articles you’ll read this month, there’s a lot of excitement about technologies like AI, IoT, blockchain, and in some sectors, BIM (building information modelling). Digital twins.