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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

In 2016, Seamless was awarded the Global Telecoms Business Award for Software and Applications Innovation, showing their commitment to providing exemplary and innovative technologies through a result driven approach, and demonstrating that the success of their customers is embedded in their core DNA.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 8 – 14)

Logistics Viewpoints

While the Halloween season is just getting started, retailers are clearly looking ahead. But for retailers, Halloween is mostly in the rearview mirror (except for the candy sales and last-minute costumes), and they are preparing for the holiday rush. The latest menace on supply chains is Mother Nature.

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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 Amazing Supply Chain of Chocolate Easter Eggs

Supply Chain Game Changer

Check out The Baby Supply Chain! I, for one, am a big chocolate lover, so I am fascinated by this amazing supply chain. The first solid chocolate Easter egg was produced in 1873 but the production processes have developed over the years thanks to technology and natural ingredients like pure cocoa. The Journey.

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

SupplyShift

In 2017, US retail chocolate sales were the highest in 5 years, topping $22 B, while cocoa commodity prices are at a five-year low, more than 30% lower than the 2015 peak. Uncommon Cacao started with the intention of building trust into the entire supply chain, from the farmer, to the warehouse, to the craft chocolatier.

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Last Week, IBM Traced 28 Tons of Oranges Using Blockchain. Also Last Week, Sourcemap Traced 1,000 Tons of Cocoa - No Blockchain Required.

Sourcemap

The First Step to Traceability: Stenciling Batch Numbers on Bags of Cocoa at a Depot in Ghana. There’s a lot of hype around using blockchain to trace supply chains. The most widely publicized blockchain pilots involve shippers and retailers - the ‘last leg’ of a global supply chain.

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

SupplyShift

In 2017, US retail chocolate sales were the highest in 5 years, topping $22 B, while cocoa commodity prices are at a five-year low, more than 30% lower than the 2015 peak. Uncommon Cacao started with the intention of building trust into the entire supply chain, from the farmer, to the warehouse, to the craft chocolatier.