Air France KLM is Evaluating MRO Potential for Blockchain. Visibility Enables Faster Procure-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash processes : for example, you can leverage Electronic Proof of Delivery (ePOD) and geofencing to initiate invoicing and payment process. . Source: Evan, Flikr. “I MORE

From a simple place to stock goods, warehouses have developed in many ways—function and form included. Affected by changes in production, procurement and distribution methods, warehousing has continually been pushed and pulled in different directions. Just-in-time techniques have led to more products arriving directly from manufacturing to the end-customer, shrinking warehouse use. Where to Do Your Warehousing. Who Will Do Your Warehousing? MORE

How many warehouses and where to place them? In France, more than 8 million square meters of additional storage surface have been put out on the market in 2018 by 40 logistics players. MORE

The business is getting tougher as more and more professional buyers at Customer’s site are managing procurement and purchasing. 3) Logistics (inbound/outbound transportation, materials and finished goods warehouses). MORE

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The impact on supply chains is particularly apparent in the following two broad areas— shipping and procurement of products/components/raw materials. COVID-19 Impact on Procurement. MORE

This is a form of supply that takes traditional warehousing and demand planning out of the equation. There is then no need to store physical objects in a physical warehouse. The operation is more streamlined and life for procurement team becomes easier. One forward looking building company in France built a small house using only 3D printed components. From a spares point of view, supply chain operations can reduce or eliminate warehousing and shipping. MORE

In this traditional model of hospital and healthcare supply, the facility’s loading dock fills up fast each day, with bulk deliveries and small orders arriving constantly, which must then be put away in a warehouse or distributed around a campus. MORE

And just last week, the Blockchain in Supply Chain Alliance (BiSCA) was announced , with a focus on procurement, planning, warehousing, and transportation processes. However, Maersk’s leading competitors, German Hapag-Lloyd and France’s CMA CGM, aren’t jumping on the Maersk-IBM bandwagon. Every Friday on Talking Logistics, I share a list of supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention that week, along with some brief commentary and analysis. MORE

In the last three years we’ve developed our strategy, centralised procurement, purchasing and manufacturing aligned our portfolios across all categories globally and developed our exclusive brands portfolio. Grandvision has grand plans. MORE