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The Parallel Systems Story with Matt Soule

The Logistics of Logistics

Matt has extensive experience using advanced technologies to disrupt established industries. The company’s zero-emissions railcars join together to form “platoons” to reduce energy consumption and can split off to multiple destinations while en route. trucking industry to rail.

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Editor’s Choice: Frequent Assessments Needed to Maintain Supply Chain Resilience Amid Emerging Waves of Disruptions

Logistics Viewpoints

Key speaker, Jackson Wood – Descartes Systems Group, Global Trade Intelligence, Industry Strategy Director – said that the precisely planned and highly-synchronized supply chain networks that made trade flows predictable in the past, require more maintenance, fine-tuning, and tweaks to maximize performance in the current operating environment.

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What manufacturers need to know about IIoT

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

There are two different terms that are sometimes used interchangeably – the Internet of Things and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). The IIoT market is predicted to reach US$124 billion by 2025, with the discrete manufacturing industry projected to spend $40 billion on platforms, systems, and services. Supply chain.

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The Circular Economy.

ModusLink Corporation

The Circular economy is a term used within Business practices that primarily aims to reinforce sustainability within Business elements (Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat, 2019). Producing using renewable energy sources such as Solar Power reinforces a self-sustaining production process. Bibliography: Angelis, D. Farooque, M.,

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Demand for low-carbon metals heats up

Resilinc

Its green Class 1 nickel fetched a 4% premium on LME prices in November because it boasted an 8 mt/CO2 per mt carbon footprint versus an industry average of 13 mt/CO2 per mt, according to S&P Global. The International Energy Agency forecasts demand for these materials to grow by between 1,000% and 3,000% by 2040.

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Expect truckload market volatility to continue through the fall

DAT Solutions

The industrial economy began to recover as oil prices climbed back above $50 a barrel in the fall of 2016, and accelerated some more when oil stayed above $55 in the fall of 2017. Demand starts with industrial economy, followed by consumer spending. Truckload capacity was already constrained by a shortage of qualified drivers.

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Blockchain Technology Still on Course to Improve Supply Chains

Enterra Insights

They are: scalability; transaction speed; decentralization; lack of talent; lack of an overarching ecosystem; energy consumption; and, resilience.[7] 1] Erminio Di Paola, “ Blockchain: En Route to the Global Supply Chain ,” TechNative, 11 August 2020. [2] Footnotes. [1]