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The Global Trade Compliance Market is Crazy!

Logistics Viewpoints

Many multinationals have engineered their global supply chains to minimize taxation by creating subsidiaries in low taxation nations like Switzerland, Ireland, and Singapore. Companies who have experienced these delays often add inventory across their network to buffer the risk. appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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DiManEx Contributes to Find the Business Case for Digital Spare Parts in VTT Study

DiManEx

AM shortens lead times and allows for production in small batches, reducing inventory levels. The research project, managed and implemented by VTT and Aalto University, took place over the course of several years and was funded by Business Finland, Kiwa Inspecta Oy, KONE Oyj, Valmet Technologies Oy, and Wärtsilä Services Switzerland Ltd.

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Cross Docking 101: What, Why and How? [with case studies]

Unleashed

Cross docking is when you receive goods from a supplier’s vehicle (train or truck) and move them directly onto an outbound vehicle to be transported to your customer – so there’s minimal to no storage time. The goods are sorted and transported to their final destination.

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Staying Ahead of Supply Chain Paradigms – LogiSYM September 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Demand sensing technology will help supply chain professionals to become smarter about the sales side, which helps to drive sales but also allows for better planning of logistics and manufacturing capacity. Advisory Board Member, at The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society (LSCMS). Companies can clearly make a dent.

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A convincing industry approach: SupplyOn’s Rail Community boosts the efficiency of the railway industry

SupplyOn

SBB relies on RailSupply to significantly improve efficiency in purchasing and procurement logistics. The goal of this changeover was to significantly streamline the SBB’s purchasing and procurement logistics. In the initial step, SBB has connected 15 business partners from the Passenger Transportation Division on the supplier side.

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As Europe Rebounds Supply Chain Continues to Shine

MIT Supply Chain

Zaragoza, Spain, where the Zaragoza Logistics Center is based, an employment bright spot in Europe. The unemployment rate in Europe is around 12% and in Spain is about 25%, yet the current jobless rate for graduates of the MIT Zaragoza Master in Logistics and Supply Chain Management program in Zaragoza, Spain, is zero.

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The Beginning of the Beginning: A Progress Report on the Digitisation of Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Inventory tracking enables flexible e-Commerce fulfillment models and allows for managing shocks caused by shop closures. The supply chain and logistics ecosystem is reliant on the contribution of many autonomous actors. All parties along the transport chain need to be well joined up.