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The Data Behind Amazon’s Logistics and Fulfillment Play

Freightos

Amazon is at the nexus of ecommerce, data, and logistics, with a drive to constantly improve their logistics network. In other words, if your shipping your own goods, you’re competition. That’s 258 operational facilities in the US and another 486 distributed around the world (see map below, data from MWPVL ). Source: Amazon.com.

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Added Signs of Global Manufacturing Upturn in May

Supply Chain Matters

Report authors additionally noted that India manufacturing employment growth rose “ to one of the greatest extents since data collection started in March 2005.” Further indicated was that improved PMI data was seen across the majority of countries covered by this survey. import tariffs on certain goods produced in China.

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CSR Initiatives in the Global Supply Chain

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Early in the pandemic, the company organized an airlift of two flights per week to deliver several hundred million masks from China to France. CEVA Logistics is taking a lead in the air cargo industry to reduce the logistics-related impact on the environment at the source by creating demand for more sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).

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Top 10 Supply Chain Disruptions: 2023 Midyear Recap

Resilinc

We dug into the data from our event watch monitoring platform, EventWatch AI , and here’s what we found. This includes company and site-level strikes, national strikes (like the Labor Union strikes in France or the worker walkouts at Starbucks in the U.S.), Labor disruptions were substantially higher this year—up an astounding 136%.

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The Supply Chain Response to India’s Second Wave of Covid!

Supply Chain Game Changer

France and Germany also extended their support with the supply of emergency medical equipment. France offered 8 oxygen generating plants that could be installed quickly along with 5 liquid oxygen containers, 200 electric syringe pushers, 28 respirators and their consumables. High capacity oxygen tankers were airlifted from UAE.

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Supply Chain’s New Imperative: Designing for Value Creation

MIT Supply Chain

Four paths to design innovation Innovations in the fields of optimization, simulation, and data science have advanced supply chain design?—?also These advances coupled with a flood of new data on operational performance have created extremely powerful, more accessible, design tools. also called strategic supply chain planning?—?way

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Fulfillment Planning in an Omnichannel World

o9 Solutions

There are three key factors driving this change including: dramatically changing customer preferences, a major shift towards omnichannel purchases, and an increasing need for retailers to respond quicker to shifting preferences and buying behaviors with more efficient sourcing, transportation and fulfillment. .