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The VF Corporation Invested in Supply Chain Agility Before COVID Made “Agility” the New Buzzword

Logistics Viewpoints

VF Corporation is Building a Highly Automated DC on the West Coast. Those goods flowed through three regional hubs – in Singapore, Panama City, Panama and Stabio, Switzerland – to 49 distribution centers, 24 of which VF operates. VF has built a highly automated distribution center (DC) in Barden, England. This will be about a 1.2

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Molex Prizes Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

If I if I know the vessel has left Singapore late by a week, I have a couple weeks to find an alternative solution which costs less.”. Targeted visibility also requires visibility to the inventory in their DCs; this visibility to DC and in transit visibility allows them to calculate when stock outs will occur.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Conferences to Attend in 2018

Talking Logistics

Amber Road : eVOLVE 2018 , TBA (2017: May 11-12, Washington, DC). Infor : Inforum 2018 , September 24-27, Washington, DC. eft 5th Annual Asia-Pacific 3PL and Supply Chain Summit , TBA, Singapore (2017: Nov 20-21). If you’re an event organizer and are interested in having me speak at your conference, please contact me.

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Supply Chain Risk Hits the Big Time

Enterra Insights

A survey of 1,300 senior IT decision-makers and security pros from the US, Canada, UK, Mexico, Australia, Germany, Japan, and Singapore found two-thirds of them reported their organizations had “suffered a supply chain attack in the past year.”[1] ” How big is this concern?

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Reshoring to the US and Europe Accelerating, Now Also Serving CO2 Emission Reduction Objectives

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Centralized distribution networks with a single DC in the US or European market will lose ground while central distribution centers with satellite hubs or regional distribution networks with multiple distribution centers are on the rise. He also is a guest lecturer at Tsinghua University in China and NTU and SMU in Singapore.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 17-21, 2014)

Talking Logistics

Specifically, the desire to own and control the innovation cycle — from the front end of its operations (website) to its back end (order fulfillment and DC automation systems) — in a holistic and integrated manner. I believe it’s that passion for invention that drove this acquisition. Collectively, the three new sites added 69,000 sq.

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Transforming your supply chain: What experts said at Quintiq World Tour Singapore 2015

DELMIA Quintiq

We did precisely that at Quintiq World Tour Singapore 2015 with experts from Hewlett Packard, Baker Hughes, ZALORA and FCI Electronics. In e-commerce, the supply chain begins from the point we procure our products to the point they reach the distribution center (DC) and finally, to the customer’s doorstep.