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Digital and the Supply Chain—How Far Have We Come?

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The impact was across manufacturing plants, transport networks, warehouses, and retail outlets. This platform of data can then be used as the foundation for innovation where business users can bring together data sets to give them the information they need to make decisions. Digitalisation has impacted every part of the business.

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Regional Transportation Agencies Deploy Innovative Tech to Improve Operations, Employee Retention and Recruitment

ThroughPut

Partner Agencies: NJ TRANSIT, New York City Transit, Metro North Railroad & Long Island Railroad Signapse AI (Guildford, United Kingdom) – Utilizes AI to automatically translate written text to sign language enabling scalable, cheaper, and faster accessible content for the Deaf community.

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Boom Time for the Shared Economy within Supply Chain

Logistics Bureau

In logistics and supply chain management, however, transport and warehousing are the most significant sharing processes thanks to a welter of economic benefits for all parties—and the trend is accelerating despite the dampening effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. Why Businesses, Large and Small, Think it’s Fair to Share.

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Logistics Responses to Europe’s Migrant Crisis

TMC

So far, we’ve found that the expected fallout in terms of higher transportation prices and operational disruptions has been relatively muted. Probably the most notable outcome from a logistics standpoint has occurred in Calais, France, where trucks headed for the Channel Tunnel to the United Kingdom were being boarded by migrants.

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Golden Results in the Supply Chain

EcoVadis

Carbon footprint: to continue to optimize our business, we obviously rely on state-of-the-art IT systems to study all the possibilities for optimizing transport. Take advantage of empty returns, think about multimodal transport, replacing a certain number of trucks with trains, take an interest in the opportunity of hybrid or electric trucks.

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The Direct Impact of the Brexit Deal on Supply Chains

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Since my previous blog , and after months of negotiations, the United Kingdom (UK) and the European Union (EU) reached a deal on December 24, 2020. Additionally, some carriers may pull out from offering their services to transport goods from and in the UK, including parcel providers.

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The Top 15 Benefits of Ecommerce to Business

Unleashed

Such outreach does raise issues around taxation, Government regulations, transport, language and culture, and other factors. Your store information is always available with eCommerce A major benefit of an eCommerce store is the ability for it to operate around the clock.