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Driving Sustainable Growth Through Supply Chain Resilience

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Driving Sustainable Growth Through Supply Chain Resilience. The question is, how do we navigate our way out of this never-ending chaos to continue driving sustainable growth? More specifically, it took 83 days for container transport from Europe to Asia, and 88 days from North America to Asia. HOW DID WE GET HERE?

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A Conversation with Stuart Whiting, Schneider Electric

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

He is very passionate about developments in the Supply Chain arena and is always seeking excellence in his drive for efficiency & innovation in Supply Chain operations” – a quality that is very relevant to face up to the many Supply Chain challenges in our path! Prior to that, I was with TNT for 6 years.

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7 Ways to Strategically Elevate Freight Procurement

Talking Logistics

Transportation has followed the same evolutionary pattern, moving upstream from day-to-day freight transactions to an integral component of top-level corporate planning and procurement strategy. routes continue to hold steady but there has been a sharp decline in the rates for Asia-Europe routes. Disaggregate freight spend data.

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6 Essential Procurement Training Courses for Professionals: How To Begin and Advance Your Career in Procurement

SCMDOJO

Procurement training equips you to excel in the corporate world by teaching you everything from supplier dynamics to negotiating strategies. What is procurement and purchasing Lesson 2. Procurement and Purchasing Cycle Lesson 7. Make or Buy decision Lesson 3. Trends and tendencies in procurement Lesson 3.

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Top 12 New Logistics Startup Companies Making Noise

ShipBob

Think about your most recent purchase. This sequence of events involves many moving parts, including purchasing, packaging, shipping, and transporting materials to distributors to sell to the end customer. Freight forwarding. Warehousing and storage. Handling raw materials. Order fulfillment. Returns and exchanges.

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The Ultimate Guide to Contract Logistics: What You Need to Know

SCMDOJO

The Netherlands: The Logistics Hub of Northern Europe The Netherlands stands as a logistics hub for the whole of Europe due to several factors. It boasts excellent infrastructure, including well-connected harbors, well-educated people, and multilingual capabilities, making it an international logistics hotspot.

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Experts Discuss How to Streamline Global Supply Chain

Supply Chain Opz

To improve operational efficiency successfully and in a sustainable way, people across the entire business need to have a shared understanding of the supply chain goals and also what their individual roles are in achieving them.