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This Week in Logistics News (March 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

Dublin-based Evocco lets you track, improve, and offset the climate impact of your food purchases based on your receipt. Egypt’s Suez Canal blocked by huge container ship. Egypt has reopened the canal’s older channel to divert some traffic until the grounded ship can move again.

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What You Can’t See Can Hurt You – Is Your Supply Chain Really Transparent?

Logility

In 2020, the poorest working conditions were identified in Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Honduras, India, Kazakhstan, the Philippines, Turkey, and Zimbabwe. How can you ensure you are not purchasing from a supplier that had a positive audit but actually practices worker abuse? Yet you may need to buy from these countries.

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JAGGAER Webinar with Accenture Strategy and Attijariwafa Bank Case Study: Accelerating Trust in Banking – Internal, Suppliers and Customers

Jaggaer

He was joined by Youness Taghrichte, Head of Procurement at Attijariwafa Bank, together with Richard Hogg, VP Northern Europe, JAGGAER, and Javier Lopez, Senior Value Engineer, JAGGAER. Spend management and procurement will play a key role in enabling banks to achieve their efficiency targets while managing supply chain risks,” he added.

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Optimizing Last-Mile Fulfillment for FMCG Businesses in the Middle East

Locus

predicted that the retail industry in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is on the verge of a pivotal shift. “E-commerce A recent report predicts that by 2030 , the share of smartphone connections in the Middle East and North African (MENA) regions will reach 92 percent from 76 percent in 2022. In 2019, Bain & Co.

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10 questions about the benefits of S&OP for your organisation

Supply Chain Movement

S&OP is an integral process, which means the active involvement of Finance, Sales, Product Management, Production, Purchasing, etc. However, there must be consensus within the organisation about definitions and the right source of information for important reports. Involvement. Congo, The Democratic Republic of The. Cook Islands.

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Three Supply Chain Risk Management Lessons You Can Learn from the Suez Canal Block

CH Robinson Transportfolio

The BBC reported that 369 ships were stuck waiting for the Ever Given to be refloated. Perishables are on tight delivery schedules that ensure the product arrives at its destination fresh and ready for purchase. Maritime insurance is something that we highly recommend purchasing whenever you engage in ocean shipping.

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Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods

Gravity Supply Chain

Developing end-to-end supply chain management software, Gravity optimizes operations, mitigates risk, and controls costs. In 1956, manually loading a ship cost $5.86 per ton; the standardized container cut that cost to just 16 cents a ton … The U.S. billion metric tons as of 2017. One joint solution.