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A Conversation with Stuart Whiting, Schneider Electric

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

We are pleased to continue our 2021 fire-side chat series with key people in the supply chain industry, and it is with particular pleasure to catch up with Stuart Whiting, Senior Vice President, Global Supply Chain, Logistics & Planning at Schneider Electric, based in Singapore but with a global functional responsibility.

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Putting the Planet First: Bringing Sustainability To The Last-Mile With Logistics Technology

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Parallelly, expectations around the overall purchasing experience have also grown steeper. In essence, a lot of logistics planning boils down to finding the quickest possible route between various points of delivery before returning back to the source. Sales in the e-commerce sector globally, grew to $4.9 trillion in 2021, up from $4.2

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Are Our Agri-Food Supply Chains In Crisis?

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

This country created an advanced agri-food cluster with supplying and supporting industries to create an interdependent ecosystem. Through trade, countries are able to buy agri-food produce from other parts of the world that are not able to grow efficiently on their own land (or region) or are not in season.

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People and Halal Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The halal industry is a fast-growing industry. trillion industry by 2024 , consisting of not only food, but also cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, modest fashion, media & creation, and Muslim friendly travel. In summary, halal supply chain management = halal excellence of supply chain processes. Developments.

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Risk Management in Halal Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Marco Tieman , Chief Executive Officer at LBB International Background According to the 2022 State of The Global Islamic Economy Report, the global Islamic economy is an estimated USD 2 trillion industry consisting of the following key industries: halal food, modest fashion, media & recreation, travel, pharma, and cosmetics.

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The End of a Fairy Tale. Part 2.

Supply Chain Shaman

It was a story where people believed that functional excellence leads to supply chain superiority. I strongly feel that a blind focus on functional excellence will cause the supply chain to become out of balance. The consolidation of this industry has served the technology providers well, but has largely stymied innovation.

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Experts Choice Of Top Online Logistics Resources

Freightos

So I went straight to the source and asked consultants, trade reporters, Wall Street Journal reporters and others, what their go-to logistics and supply chain sources were. is one of the industry’s most respected logistics sources. Since 1974 with industry-leading expertise in, well, American shipping.