The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Energy Storage Development – A Fast Emerging Technology Needed for Sustainability. That said, when was the technology there to even make ordering from an app possible? As a sustainable logistics consultant I’m often reading up on how technology is evolving in the energy sector. Charge Me Up! The work here is ongoing.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

This is the challenge that industries face all around the world. Ideally one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, but that takes coordination of people in different industries. In one example, Crust Group in Singapore provides a Southeast Asian example of a cross industry “circular economy” partnership. Sure there is.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

OCTOBER 15, 2023

. #1 Your Input Channel In November 2022 my story To Realize the Circular Economy Dream – Reach Out to Your Community , I used the example of a company that takes bread crusts (a by-product of one industry) and uses it for making beer. The advice in November is the same today – talk to the business community outside of your own industry.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

Last month, I had the privilege to visit the Energy Observer, which was making a stop right here in Singapore during her around-the-world voyage! By combining all these energy generation technologies together and monitoring the systems with more than 1,000 sensors, the vessel, refurbished from a racing catamaran, is always able to move.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 16, 2021

Huge demand supply issues breaking the ever-so-fragile supply chain globally. In this phase, companies with relatively better supply chains, started to re-access the imperatives required to rebuild resilient and agile supply chains. The Critical Levers that Global supply chains need to Execute NOW.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

DECEMBER 8, 2021

“There is no doubt that the global supply chain market is growing exponentially. The mismatch between the high demands by employers and the supply of logistics skills and knowledge is resulting in a growing gap in the logistics & supply chain market”. What is a talent gap? This is no longer sufficient.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

DECEMBER 21, 2021

That said, I am never surprised to hear my otherwise upbeat logistics colleagues express Grinch-like pessimism when it comes to emissions reduction in our industry. Less plastic should really be the rule and our industry needs to demand non-plastic options as these become more widely available and price competitive. TRANSPORTATION.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The transport and logistics industry has started to engage differently in the annual United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference. Additional three zero (3Zs) emission initiatives were launched at COP26 that will help the transport and logistics industry to contribute its fair share to the decarbonization of economy and society.

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Freightos

APRIL 24, 2018

Freight Visibility and Control: Introducing the Freightos Baltic Index (FBX). Today, the go-to metric for that question is typically Standard & Poor’s 500, the Nikkei, or the Dow Jones Industrial Average (a shockingly poor indicator , if you look closer). The underlying premise dates back further, even for freight.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 15, 2021

As a consumer, I expect when I invest in an appliance or a tool, it will keep working for a reasonably long time to bring a return. The logistics industry is one of the largest carbon emitters in today’s business world, and therefore having a carbon mitigation plan is an important step for logistics companies to take. Closing the Loop.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 14, 2023

Many multinationals have engineered their global supply chains to minimize taxation by creating subsidiaries in low taxation nations like Switzerland, Ireland, and Singapore. The Supply Chain Function The argument for having the global trade department report to the supply chain function is threefold.

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Freightos

JANUARY 8, 2019

As we enter a new year, it’s a great time to look back at how far we’ve come as an industry, set our next goalposts, and map out where we should be as an industry by 2020. The journey to digitize freight, while initially off to a slow start, has gained momentum in the last two or three years. Technology. Amazon is coming.

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DELMIA Quintiq

DECEMBER 9, 2015

At the Singapore stop of the Quintiq World Tour this year, our panel of industry influencers delved into these topics and more. How do you know that your planning software is no longer enough and you should look for something more? Telstra executive Charlie Macdonald talks about the formula to the personal supply chain.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 19, 2023

Fortunately, great minds are making progress to capture this energy in ways that could change the transportation and logistics industry. It depends, but if you are near the equator I used a calculator tool to estimate that 100 square meters of solar panels could generate about 20,000 kWh of electricity per year.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 12, 2021

So when it comes to the logistics industry, will companies and managers forget about climate change and carbon reduction targets in favor of making short-term profits? Carbon emission levels will surely go up again, as the industrial world emerges from the pandemic. The hope is that perhaps it won’t rise at the same pace as before.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

It’s no different in the logistics industry. Can partnerships be formed among companies and technology be used to move shipments from different partners in the same vicinity to reduce light loads and keep vehicle utilization as high as possible? LogiSYM Supply Chain Magazine – September 2021. MORE FROM THIS EDITION.

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Freightos

APRIL 16, 2015

We’ve rounded up the top 20 logistics technology innovations changing the way over $18 trillion dollars of goods are shipped annually. Here we go: Technology Innovations in Logistics. Faster service, great capacity usage and direct connectivity with freight companies means better access to service providers. One example?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 14, 2023

This tends to demonstrate that the industry is hopelessly linked with a tremendous amount of waste and therefore linked to emissions which damage our planet. Singapore for example has allowed for delivery to ships in its waters.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

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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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The Green Corridor: Food for Thought Origin Transparency and Revolutionary Substitution for Supply Chains in a Fragmented yet Increasingly Digital World by Timothy Foote, Founder of Susymbio In our LogiSYM Magazine, there are many articles and adverts which help to provide transparency on the flow of goods from supplier and to the final customer.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The Green Corridor: Digitise Wisely to Reduce Emissions by Timothy Foote , Founder of Susymbio Digitisation in the logistics and transportation industry produces efficiency gains for nearly all players in the economy today. Jet aircraft have made tremendous efficiency gains with technology over the last few decades. So digitise wisely!

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2023

Singapore is one of the largest fuelling stations of the world (over 20% of ship fuelling happens here), so capacity for sustainable fuels is critical for global sustainability efforts. In Q1, 2023for example an expanded Neste Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) refinery will be coming online in Singapore. Air and Ocean Infrastructure.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Experts and pundits are forecasting wholesale changes to every industry and every part of life, but only a minority of these forecasts of massive, permanent change will bear out. What are areas that are relevant to supply chains where new paradigms are possible? Digitization. Globalization. World order. Environmental protection.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JANUARY 3, 2023

Opinion Editorial by Wolfgang Lehmacher, Operating Partner at Anchor Group and Mikael Lind, Senior Strategic Research Advisor at Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE) and Professor at Chalmers University of Technology. The aviation industry is required to push the development of SAF and activate every other enabler to reduce emissions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 28, 2015

Many companies talk about Supply Chain Excellence, but most leaders struggle to define it. One supply chain leader, in a discussion last week, likened supply chain excellence to fitness. He felt that supply chain excellence was analogous. 2015 Supply Chains to Admire.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 21, 2023

What if technology came into the picture that allowed for far less moving about in fossil fuel burning transport? Working remotely was proven to be as productive as working in offices thanks to the remote working technology in place today. Only early industrialization made set hours for work a standard for efficient manufacturing.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MARCH 22, 2022

What does the transportation industry have to do with a global pandemic? I’m not talking about how shipping and logistics are key in keeping the supply chain connected during global health crises so we can keep essential supplies like medicine, food, and toilet paper moving. by Tim Foote, Founder of Susymbio.

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TransAudit

MAY 16, 2022

How Long Has the Freight Audit Company Been In Business? The company’s ability to remain in business usually speaks to its proven ability to audit freight bills and recover lost profits. What Type of Technologies Are Involved in the Provider’s Audit Process? Does the Freight Audit Company Have Global Expertise?

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

For many industries like farming or mining the GHG is far more relevant than simply counting carbon dioxide. . In the transport industry one would then simply calculate the tons of carbon emitted per kilogram shipped. Ultimate Guide To Technologies That Are Transforming Supply Chains. MORE FROM THIS EDITION.

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DELMIA Quintiq

OCTOBER 25, 2015

It would seem that the aviation industry is doing just fine, thank you. Or so I thought until I ran into some old and new friends at the recent Payload Asia Conference in Singapore. I decided to attend because one of the topics on the agenda was the impact of e-commerce on the air freight business. Lagging technology.

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Techgistics

MARCH 12, 2018

The world runs on trade and traditionally the industry has been plagued by inefficient processes, middlemen, and archaic technology. As a result, venture capital has poured into logistics startups over the last few years in an attempt to digitize the supply chain. The global logistics market is predicted to reach US 15.5

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 16, 2023

Very quickly the industries all cut back on using power, people run out of savings, and livelihoods shrivel. To harness sunlight in Malawi, it will take capital and know-how requiring foreign currency and technology from other countries. There is always a tipping point though where resilience can’t be maintained.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 14, 2021

Societies have been paying for health costs linked to industrial and transport pollution, but those costs are paid in taxes that go into healthcare systems. By not accurately and directly attributing the costs of pollution and climate change to their sources, societies at large do not see the benefits to move to cleaner technologies.

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Freightos

JULY 26, 2018

These examples are from retail, but I sense that the same customer empowerment phenomenon is happening broadly across everything we do at Amazon and most other industries as well. Not even B2B is spared from these changing expectations (which is why we at Freightos launched an online freight marketplace ). Customers won’t have it.”.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Subscribe to Supply Chain Game Changer. At Supply Chain Game Changer we believe in sharing experiences and expertise from people in every industry and from across the globe. As such we have introduced our “Seasoned Leadership in Action™” Interview series at Supply Chain Game Changer.

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QAD

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

In 1963, Singapore, Sabah, and Sarawak joined the Federation. The fledgling country was troubled by an insurgency, confrontations with Indonesia, the Philippine’s claim on Sabah and then Singapore’s withdrawal in 1965. Other Important Industries. Supply Chain Infrastructure for Manufacturing. of the GDP.

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Freightos

AUGUST 26, 2015

If you’re like me, staying up to date on supply chain news is critical. 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. Experts’ Choice: Supply Chain and Logistics Email Newsletters.

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