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Selecting a Supply Chain Technology Provider is Harder than it Seems

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Having the right transportation technology can improve everything from route efficiency to supply chain sustainability. You will want to consider your potential transportation technology provider’s track record. The supply chain technology provider’s record.

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Foxconn’s Prime Facility Producing Apple iPhones Impacted by Covid

Supply Chain Matters

Foxconn acknowledged that it was providing local transportation for workers to return to their various residences. Latest Information. Citing informed sources, the report indicated that a plan to shift some production to other Foxconn sites in China was underway.

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Digitisation: Shifting Gears in 2021

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The lack of understanding can be overcome with information and training. LogiSYM—Vietnam Digital 2020 – LogiSYM December/January 2021. Supply Chain Risk Management: Risks of Relocating a Business ‘China to Vietnam’ From soba to udon—Are the noodles in the FTA bowl getting too thick? MORE FROM THIS EDITION.

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Don’t Procrastinate This Holiday Season

BlueYonder

And did we mention that many retailers are scrambling since factories in Vietnam are shut down or operating at very limited capacity due to COVID outbreaks. Many retailers who rely on merchandise produced in Vietnam are re-evaluating what they can get to showrooms in time for fall and winter.

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Snapshot of 2023 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains- Part Two

Supply Chain Matters

A clear opportunity ripe to be addressed is the shifting of the prior focus of just-in-time driven, end-to-end efficiency flow of materials and resources, to an outside-in flow of physical and digital based information focused on customer or channel focused fulfillment material, resource and support needs.

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Has China lost its relevance as a production location?

Supply Chain Movement

This is still very favourable in comparison with wages within the EU, and wages have increased more significantly in other nearby countries, such as Vietnam and Bangladesh to name but a few. Click here for more information>> 3 “Minimum order quantities (MOQs) are increasing”. This is both true and false. China hasn’t moved.

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Last Mile has the Potential to Evolve From Cost Center to Revenue Driver: Nishith Rastogi, Founder & CEO, Locus

Locus

Locus has been working with Unilever to optimize the operations of its 600+ depots spread across Vietnam and Indonesia and counting. According to Nishith, the brand teamed up with Locus four years ago as it was an informed consumer that prized agility and precision in decision-making in an increasingly complex and nuanced last-mile space.