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This Week in Logistics News (July 23 – 29)

Logistics Viewpoints

Europe agrees to cut natural-gas consumption as Russia crimps supplies. As part of the Pledge, Amazon is creating a more sustainable delivery fleet, and its work with Rivian is an important part of decarbonizing its last mile logistics as well as accelerating innovation that can help others reach net-zero carbon.

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Make Bottleneck Management Your Biggest Priority

ThroughPut

Amazon , for instance, developed an innovative program that expedites the amount of time it takes for truckers to check in at fulfillment centers. Many intelligence tools aggregate data into a static series of metrics. Small improvements can have a major impact. Understand the objective.

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The Supply Chain Response to India’s Second Wave of Covid!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Russia sent covid assistance in the form of oxygen concentrators and generators. Saudi Arabia shipped 80 Metric tonnes of liquid oxygen to India and Portugal assured 20,000 litres of oxygen per week to India along with 5503 vials of Remdesvir. Belgium too chipped in to offer 9000 doses of Remdesvir.

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Supply Chain Market Report – July 2022

Elementum

Global supply constraints have come from (1) supply-side disruptions like China’s Zero-COVID policy and the Russia / Ukraine conflict and (2) from demand pressure as federal stimulus flooded the market with extra cash in 2020 and 2021. Over the last 2 years, Supply Chain teams have been struggling to procure and manufacture enough inventory.

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Supply Chain Agenda of Pierre Mille, VP Group Planning & Customer Service Excellence at Carlsberg Group

Supply Chain Movement

In our other main markets in Asia and Russia it’s about building capability, positioning skilled people and putting systems and processes in place to enable us to provide excellent customer service.”. We realise that no one size fits all and so we have to understand the rhythm of our customers and which metrics matter to them.”.

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Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods

Gravity Supply Chain

This corporate management innovation eventually became standard operating procedure throughout the West. made great use of this innovation during the Vietnam War to ship supplies to soldiers, who sometimes even used the containers as shelters … This innovation made the modern globalized world possible.

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Top 15 Supply Chains to Admire from the Supply Chain Insights Conference

Kinaxis

While there was always passionate discussions on companies and metrics, the end goal was to raise awareness of supply chain as a practice. However, they seem to fall under the conglomerate issue, where multiple business units may skew the summary metrics. There has been so much discussion on the “top” supply chain lists.