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Cargo Flight Launches a Vital Link in the Ebola Response Effort

MIT Supply Chain

A shipment of medical equipment that arrived on January 12, 2015, in Monrovia, Liberia, from Miami, US, will enable 25 government hospitals to receive infection control training, helping the facilities which were partially or fully closed owing to the Ebola crisis to recommence regular operations.

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Complex costs of transportation

Supply Chain Movement

And freight costs are continuing to rise, pushed upward by factors such as globalized distribution and unpredictable fuel prices. By consolidating at the source, several shipments can be combined into one, thereby reducing the number of shipments even before the shipments arrive at the Logistics Service Provider (LSP). Kazakhstan.

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Mindmap High-Tech Supply Chain 4.0

Supply Chain Movement

As a result of these market trends companies need to place their financial bets carefully, whereas commercial departments of high-tech companies are seeing business opportunities everywhere especially in new technology and omni-channel sales and distribution. The sourcing department is challenged by increasing compliancy issues.