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RS Integrated Supply’s Costanza Campi to speak at World Procurement Excellence Summit

Synovos

RS Integrated Supply’s Costanza Campi to speak at World Procurement Excellence Summit WARRINGTON, UK / RADNOR, PA 8 AUGUST 2023 – Costanza Campi, Senior Vice President of Global Procurement for RS Integrated Supply, has been selected to present at the upcoming World Procurement Excellence Summit in Cologne, Germany.

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The Impending Ocean Carrier War on Last Mile Fulfillment

Freightos

On the horizontal carrier integration front, Maersk has doubled down on its extension from ocean consolidation (Hamburg Sud, 2017) to air cargo, increasing Maersk Air by 33% with three leased cargo planes and two new Boeing purchases. Amazon has made a habit of excelling at logistics to retain end customers and third party sellers.

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ZF’s Transition from Lean to Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

This technology company is headquartered in Friedrichshafen, Germany. ZF transforms those purchased products into over 2,000 products. Lean cuts inventory out of the supply chain. But when things go wrong, lean can lead to large losses in sales because there are no just-in-case inventory buffers. The Path Forward.

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How To Start Your Brewery On The Path To Success

Unleashed

How many stock-outs, an event that caused inventory to be exhausted? Don’t purchase any supply chain solution that is not Cloud or SaaS based. That means you can buy it as a remote online service (SaaS) paying typically by user per month, or buy and install the software on the cloud. Stock & Inventory Control.

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Transforming the Grocery Shopping Experience with Last Mile Delivery

Supply Chain Management and Analytics

In several days, the lockdown period started, and we were so anxious that we could neither buy any groceries from supermarkets nor order food from restaurants. . This is an excellent example of agility. Having realized the ease of using last-mile delivery services, consumers might not go back to their traditional buying habits.

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

SCMDOJO

It involves outsourcing logistics activities, such as warehousing, transportation, distribution, inventory management, and order fulfillment, to a dedicated logistics service provider. Additionally, its strategic location in proximity to Germany, France, and the UK adds to its appeal.

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4 Ways to Lift Manufacturing Productivity: The MFP Approach

Unleashed

To put that another way: by the time a business in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan or the United States gets to Thursday they have produced, on average, what the UK needs a full Monday-Friday to do. But to transform MFP, manufacturers only need to focus on two: purchasing and production costs. Look to your Gross Value Added.