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The Green Corridor: Cures from the Sky! Healthcare Distribution is Driving Itself Into a More Environmentally Friendly Direction

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

While materials science struggles to provide more environmentally friendly disposable materials, improving the logistics for health services delivery is also something vital for our planet. Amazingly their blood delivery drone operation in Rwanda distributes 70% of that nation’s blood. It’s not all about blood either.

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Solving The Cold Chain Challenges

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Multiparty Networks are Proven Technology. One Network has years of experience in healthcare supply networks that provide medicines and vaccines to hundreds of millions of people in Africa and around the globe. 8 Essential Capabilities to Optimize the Cold Chain. Business network technology enables us to do this.

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The Race for Last Mile Drones

Logistics Viewpoints

One of the most difficult and expensive aspects of the supply chain is last mile and home delivery. The use of last mile drones is still challenging for a variety of reasons including FAA regulations, public perception, and the technology itself. Flytrex is based in the US and focuses on last mile drones for food delivery.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 27 – December 1, 2017)

Talking Logistics

The mad dash begins to finish all the work that needs to get done before 2018 arrives, so without delay, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: E-Commerce Boosts U.S. Mercedes Plans More Drone Deliveries After 100 Perfect Flights (Bloomberg Technology). cities in 2019 (Reuters).

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Bill Gates: We need a ‘war game’ for the infectious diseases supply chain

The Network Effect

Although the system is not perfect, NATO countries participate in joint exercises in which they work out logistics such as how fuel and food will be provided, what language they will speak, and what radio frequencies will be used. Image by UK Department for International Development/Flickr. The Network Effect'

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Delivery Drones are Taking Off! (Infographic)

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. In this piece, we will look at how retailers and logistics companies could use drones to deliver parcels to customers. Recent years have seen a flourishing interest in the use of drone technology to deliver packages. Subscribe Here! Email Address. The Rise of The Delivery Drone.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 11 – 17)

Logistics Viewpoints

The top categories are food, beverages, apparel / accessories, and decorations. And now on to this week’s logistics news. Scope 1 is linked to operations; Scope 2 is tied to the fuels it buys from others, and Scope 3 is associated with the supply chain. Consumers plan to spend a total of $6.9 per person.