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Supply Chain Heroes: Stories of Innovation in Support of COVID-19

Logility

In this post, we share a few supply chain hero stories about Logility customers who have focused their talent and resources to find innovative ways to support healthcare and other essential workers. Quickly increasing availability of immune boosters to help keep customers healthy. [ [link] ] Brooks Brothers. You are our heroes.

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How Technology is Helping Companies Move Goods and Do Good

Logistics Viewpoints

Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), for example, can perform many tasks in warehouse or distribution center settings (including moving pallets, product picking and fulfillment) that are typically viewed as repetitive or non value-added, thereby freeing the workforce to perform other activities and ultimately increasing productivity.

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What is Supply Chain Innovation? Separating the Reality from the Hype

MIT Supply Chain

Supply chain innovations such as the early adoption of RFID underline how a flawed view of new technology can lead to unwise investment decisions. For many companies supply chain innovation (SCI) is a key source of competitive advantage. Take RFID, for example. Blurred vision. The lack of clarity is more than an academic issue.

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The Power of Skunk Works to Ignite Innovation

MIT Supply Chain

Informal collaboration within and across companies can be a source of disruptive innovation. If so, you’re part of an age-old phenomenon that Peter Gloor, a research scientist at MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence, calls Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs). COINs, often called skunk works, have been around for a long time.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 11 – 17)

Logistics Viewpoints

Speaking of sustainability, five brands have partnered with a nonprofit and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to find a way to keep small plastic items in the recycling stream. network this year after its initial success at select facilities in 2022.

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How to Learn About Supply Chain Research From Around the World in a Few Hours

MIT Supply Chain

These are: the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (Cambridge, USA), the Zaragoza Logistics Center (Zaragoza, Spain), the Center for Latin-American Logistics Innovation (Bogotá, Colombia), and the Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation (Shah Alam, Malaysia). Here are some examples.

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Success in Canada Demands a Uniquely Canadian Logistics Strategy

Supply Chain Brain

Also on this list was Hasbro, which had previously returned manufacture of Play-Doh, a truly iconic American brand, back to Massachusetts. The Canadian medical device market, for example, is the eighth largest in the world, and boasts multiple life sciences clusters that lead the world in certain types of research and development.