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Molex Prizes Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

Those industries include data communications, medical, industrial, automotive and consumer electronics. The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruptions in Iceland, for example, caused enormous disruption to air shipments across Western Europe. The data from Infor Nexus also helps the transportation teams do better carrier sourcing.

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Resilience and Agility in Supply Chains: Navigating Change in a Dynamic World

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

These changes can significantly impact supply chains by affecting sourcing strategies, trade routes, and market access. The digitization of supply chain processes, the use of big data analytics, and the emergence of technologies like blockchain and artificial intelligence have revolutionized supply chain operations.

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Trends 2023: Technology

Enterra Insights

These increasingly important solutions include renewable sources such as solar power and wind power, sustainable fuels such as hydrogen, long-duration battery systems, and smart grids.” ”[9] In a step towards achieving that goal, they report, “The world’s biggest carbon removal factory recently opened in Iceland.”

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Supply Chain Disruptions or Minor Inconveniences?

Logility

Can you anticipate and properly plan for once in a lifetime events like last year’s Icelandic volcano, and the earthquake and subsequent tsunami earlier this year in Japan? Spreadsheets, full of conflicting and nonintegrated data, only help to prolong the pain and reduce flexibility when responding to disruptions. Probably not.

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Supply Chain Disruptions or Minor Inconveniences?

Logility

Can you anticipate and properly plan for once in a lifetime events like last year’s Icelandic volcano, and the earthquake and subsequent tsunami earlier this year in Japan? Spreadsheets, full of conflicting and nonintegrated data, only help to prolong the pain and reduce flexibility when responding to disruptions. Probably not.

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Mass Customisation: What It Is and How Companies Are Using It

Unleashed

Front-end apps gather important data on customers, such as risk tolerance, budget, time frame, investment style and more. Using product usage data, careful forecasts and/or knowledge of customer preferences, the manufacturer customises its product for the individual customer.

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Let’s Embrace New Ways of Working

Supply Chain Shaman

I spoke of my experience during the Icelandic ash issue. It is amazing to me that supply chain leaders are willing to accept the data churning out of their spreadsheet ghettos as accurate, but are unwilling to believe/listen to social sentiment because they think that the data is inaccurate. I see it everyday.