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Save The Supply Chain Leader From Groupthink

Supply Chain Shaman

COVID is far from over and food instability, coupled with drought, is driving migration from Sudan to Europe. Warehouses are full, and supply chain leaders are using containers as overflow warehouses adding to port snarls. Event Companies Are the Nemesis of the Industry. The winter offers no relief. Should we do better?

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The Cost of Disaster

Elementum

For instance, Hurricane Harvey impacted nearly 10 percent of the trucking industry for two weeks and prompted several ports and businesses in the region to shut down, consequently forcing the mass rerouting of cargo to places as far as the Bahamas and Mexico. Hurricane Maria, which knocked out all power supply for 3.4

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The Rise of China-Africa Trade: Why Transportation and Logistics Should be Front and Center

BlueYonder

Logistics planners would readily tell you that this is not a surprise; such imbalances are a reality in the cargo industry. Then road feeder services supported by strategically chosen or built distribution centers, warehouses and regional air freight from these main ports to other destinations can be planned.

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Updated IT Subway Map: Major acquisitions in SC software

Supply Chain Movement

The supply chain software industry is in a considerable state of flux. directly from their suppliers, from their own warehouse or even from a retail store). Three large, international take-overs are changing the face of the market. Seychelles. Sierra Leone. Solomon Islands. South Africa. South Georgia and The South Sandwich Islands.

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KPI Key Performance Indicators in Supply Chain & Logistics

Logistics Bureau

Warehousing. Of course, the difference between KPIs and metrics will vary at different levels of your organisation, so for example, while a metric recording “receiving accuracy” in a warehouse would certainly be a KPI for a warehouse manager, it would be completely extraneous as an executive-level KPI.

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