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This Week in Logistics News (July 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

The kick-off to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan is just two weeks away, after being postponed last summer due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Earlier this week, a resurgent coronavirus forced Japan to declare a state of emergency in the capital that will run throughout the event. Descartes acquires GreenMile.

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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech- March 5 2022 Edition

Supply Chain Matters

The Supply Chain Matters blog features our March 5, 2022 edition of This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , a synopsis of noteworthy supply chain management focused technology news which we believe would be of specific interest to our global-based blog readership. Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX).

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Sustainable Food Waste Management for Food Industry SMEs

Unleashed

Food waste accounts for eight percent of global greenhouse gases and has significant environmental and economic impacts. Let’s look at how smart food businesses can reduce their waste – and how the right food manufacturing software helps them do it. Improving food inventory control. What is food waste management?

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Surviving the COVID-19 Pandemic and Future Supply Chain Disruptions Through Supply Chain Digital Transformation

Logility

Although I am sure I missed a few, the point is our global, complex, fast-paced supply chains can be disrupted in hundreds of ways and I for one don’t see that changing anytime soon. Change purchasing and manufacturing plans days or weeks sooner. Divert inventory on the fly.

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Critical Supply Chain Planning Capabilities Needed to Survive the COVID-19 Pandemic and Future Supply Chain Disruptions

Logility

The global economy has been disrupted by a virus that is too small to see and too small to be filtered by most available face masks. Cities are on lockdown; travel bans are in place and global markets have quickly entered a recession. Looking back a few months, no one could have predicted the current state of the global supply chain.

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Visualizing Supply Chains in Distress

MIT Supply Chain

MIT CTL researchers Ranjana Mary Ninan and Christopher Sean Wang created such a device for their SCM Program thesis Visualizing and Quantifying Global Supply Chain Risk . But persuading managers, and notably procurement professionals, to build supply chain risk into their decisions can be an uphill battle. A broader view.

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How the Supply Chain Can Thrive in the Face of Natural Disasters

Material Handling & Logistics

What’s less recognized is that natural disasters also wreak immense havoc on global supply chains, because they result in the cancellations of flights, the closure of ports, and the shutting down of highways. For example, the catastrophic Tohoku earthquake and tsunami a few years ago resulted in a massive US$210 billion in costs for Japan.