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How can logistics handle disruption through supply chain resilience?

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

One misfiled declaration, missing document, or unread urgent email can block a shipment. The Evergreen shipping incident in the Suez Canal proved that logistics remains vulnerable. In-fact delayed shipment may even change the consumer mind, who may cancel their order mid-transit and purchase from a competitor. Joseph Lim.

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Risk Management in Halal Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

This results in incorrect actions and communication The service industry, like logistics service providers, distributors and retailers are not well prepared for halal issue and crisis management, endangering the effectiveness of halal risk mitigation measures by the brand owner.

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How to Sustain a Lean Culture in Manufacturing & Supply Chain

GlobalTranz

All activities are documented by a team recorder. It typically describes how a process should consistently be executed and documents current ‘best practices.’ Entering these team projects in a magazine, or Lean contest is a motivator to boost teamwork and ensure that MDI is effective every day. This increases employee morale.

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Blockchain has Potential

Enterra Insights

Tracking payment information, such as purchase orders. Managing trade documentation. 3] Luzi Ann Javier, “ Blockchain Points Way to `Massive Change’ for Commodity Supply Chain ,” Material Handling & Logistics , 14 December 2017. [4] They are: Tracking products moving through the supply chain. Footnotes. [1]

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Blockchain and Trucking: A Match Made on the Road

Shipchain

The inception of blockchain technology for use in logistics and supply chain management represents one of the most significant innovations in the industry. Further, the internet and e-commerce have revolutionized global trade, making purchasing, selling, and acting as a third-party reseller more natural, as reported by Trucking Info.

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Custom Build or Off-the-Shelf or a mix?

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

She explained that she owned a Warehouse Management System, purchased a Proof of Delivery Software as a Service, implemented a licensed-to-use Accounting & Distribution System, deployed a customised online Order Management System and that she is struggling with fragmented data and documents across these systems.

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Management of Ocean Transit Time Reliability and Visibility

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Management of Ocean Transit Time Reliability and Visibility by LSCMS Shippers’ Council How would Logistics managers explain to their COO and Production group that inbound material will arrive on 23Dec but with 50% probability? Often, shipment visibility is affected when first or last-mile delivery, are outsourced to local carriers.