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FedEx Partners for Visibility, New CEO Focuses on Quality

Intelligent Audit

The following seven stories will recap business moves, innovative ideas, and industry insight to guide supply chain professionals into the launch of the next quarter. CBS News reported that this new sustainable freight transport option is one of over 1,000 electric vehicles employed by the shipping giant. .

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Twitter Insights from GT Nexus Bridges 2015 Conference

Talking Logistics

Not surprising, mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) are also on the company’s innovation roadmap. Now a GPS location for a transport vehicle is connected to an order or a SKU, for example.”. Solutions addressing the financial side of the supply chain, including Procure-to-Pay, is another core differentiator for GT Nexus.

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ABB’s Daniel Helmig: “We are moving to virtual centres of expertise”

Supply Chain Movement

Daniel Helmig, head of ABB’s Supply Chain management, is currently busy implementing supply chain transformation throughout the company’s 450 plants and many project sites as the company consolidates back end processes and establishes ten global transportation management centres. “It What are your responsibilities? “I

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Wake-Call for Added Resiliency Within Healthcare Supply Networks

Supply Chain Matters

From our lens, the global wide Covid-19 pandemic provided ample evidence of the fragility of healthcare supply networks including the sourcing of critical drugs within Asian and other countries, subject to disruptions by natural disaster, effects of climate change or disruptions to global transportation.

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Advanced Analytics for Supply Chain: 10 use cases

DynaSys

Visibility is fundamental to efficient procurement, especially if supplier relationships span design, manufacturing, and distribution. Transportation and Logistics. Increasingly global, transportation and storage can account for more than 30% of production costs. Sourcing and supplier performance.

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Tesla’s Q3-2022 Vehicle Delivery Performance Exposes Business Model Challenges

Supply Chain Matters

The notions of an unanticipated global-wide pandemic, unprecedented disruptions in supplier lead times, global transportation, and the burden of a sevenfold increase in ocean container shipping rates have tested prior product business strategies and supply chain practices. Thus, the stakes grow higher with each passing quarter.

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Logistics Imperatives to Manage Uncertainty and Disruptions in 2022: Part 2

BlueYonder

As transportation management solutions automate the processes of procuring carriers, planning truckloads and determining optimal routes, the result is a huge productivity boost. We will never have the capability to sense a global pandemic, or an event like the Suez Canal blockage, in advance.