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Seco Tools: Cutting Edge Supply Chain Strategy Takes Shape

Logility

Seco Tools manufactures cutting tools made of steel, tungsten carbide and cobalt. Historically, customers held their own inventory. This became an expensive proposition for the industry, which gave way to placing the responsibility (and cost) back on the manufacturer to hold inventory and deliver it when needed.

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Are Our Agri-Food Supply Chains In Crisis?

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The result of this cocktail is an unfortunate reduction in global agri-food production, export, and rapidly increasing agri-food commodity prices. Cluster strategies contribute to a reduction of the carbon footprint of agri-food supply chains. Food waste programmes are urgently needed to reduce food waste.

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ToolsGroup Supports Accelerated Growth With Addition of New Executives

ToolsGroup

Jon has successfully helped organizations develop growth and margin improvement strategies across a wide range of product and service offerings to include software as a service, hosting, managed services, and hardware. . Joseph Luciano is the new Chief People Officer.

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SYNOPSlS: Your Supply Chain Roadmap IDC’s Predictions for 2022 and Beyond

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Stephanie Krishnan noted that through increased automation use, Asia/Pacific supply chains could deal with restricted access to low-cost migrant workforces and gave examples of how turning to robotics for packaging has reduced the impact of labor bottlenecks. Singapore’s largest fully automated cold storage at Tee Jia Food Hub.

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The Greenest Mile: Planning’s Role in Supply Chain Sustainability

Logistics Viewpoints

I was drawn to Hunter and Amory Lovins, who advocated a strategy pairing energy efficiency with renewables, long before its current popularity. But they’ve also invested in route optimization, which uses algorithms to save up to 10 million gallons of fuel annually by reducing miles driven in the US. Buffering creates waste.

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The Green Corridor: Full Circle – The Promise and Struggles of the Circular Economy and Green Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The comparative assessment showed that the plant-based patty reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 90%! To eliminate unneeded transport or unnecessary miles is always something the logistics manager needs to do. By doing this, overstocks or express orders will be reduced and emissions associated with these also eliminated.

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Prepare for Anything: Supply Chain and Ecosystem Predictions for 2022 and beyond….

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

IDC expects spending on Digital Transformation (DX) on the top 5 use cases – smart warehousing, freight management, optimized operations, supplier network management, and predictive network inventory orchestration – to hit USD $33Bn in 2022. The COVID-19 pandemic has been global, with no country or organization immune from its impact.