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This Week in Logistics News (October 8 – 14)

Logistics Viewpoints

I keep reading reports that companies such as Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy are planning to kick off massive holiday deals in late October / early November. According to a report by Adobe Analytics, tech gadgets to sporting goods will see “massive” online discounts, with the best bargains likely in late November.

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Solving The Cold Chain Challenges

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

For example, the One Network platform for supply chain planning and execution is used by the Ministries of Health in Nigeria, Ghana, and Rwanda, providing comprehensive inventory visibility across all health facilities for real time supply demand matching and collaborative decision making. Real-Time Information with IoT and Telematics.

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Do You Know Your Suppliers? Counting the Cost of Ignorance

QAD

Supply chain due diligence is a critical topic for manufacturers and enterprises in all industries, especially given three major impacts of recent high-profile abuse cases, new due diligence laws and consumer buying trends. . found that consumers would stop purchasing brands with ethics issues. Let’s break it down.

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Accelerate Digitisation in the Supply Chain – Leveraging a Data-driven Approach to Optimisation – LogiSYM August 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Seamless provides modular, scalable, and innovative cross-industry solutions that can be shaped to fit any sales and distribution channel or product offering. They work with clients to accelerate and simplify digitization across the supply chain, increasing revenue, reducing costs, and improving market penetration.

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Beyond the Magic Quadrant: MESCBNs vs Supply Chain Platforms

Requis

The chart is supported by a report on the strengths and weaknesses of each solution. Even today, people in the field use terms like “logistics” and “supply chain” interchangeably, or use the term “supply chain” to refer to procurement. Most people at the management level in the B2B world have heard of the “Magic Quadrant” reports.

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From the Farmer to the Foil: The Cacao Supply Chain Challenge

SupplyShift

Uncommon Cacao is responding to the cacao industry of today in a similar manner to the Fair Trade movement, which started in the late 80’s as a response to plunging coffee prices. Using the SupplyShift platform, Uncommon Cacao has begun a project to understand the effects of cocoa purchasing on all the links of the chain.

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From the Farmer to the Foil: The Cacao Supply Chain Challenge

SupplyShift

Uncommon Cacao is responding to the cacao industry of today in a similar manner to the Fair Trade movement, which started in the late 80’s as a response to plunging coffee prices. Using the SupplyShift platform, Uncommon Cacao has begun a project to understand the effects of cocoa purchasing on all the links of the chain.