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

Logistics Viewpoints

Pharmaceutical manufacturer Amgen built a new biomanufacturing plant in Singapore that uses 70% less carbon than traditional facilities. Using this approach, Technicolor was able to forecast more accurately for Q1/22 and bring inventory down by $120 million. These examples address the source, make, and deliver areas of supply chain.

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Shipping Containers and Supply Chain Snarls: Is There a Way Out?

Enterra Insights

The revolution took place a few years later and was the inspiration of a North Carolina truck driver named Malcom McLean. ” According to Goh, “The question remains to define what the optimal mix of foldable and regular containers carriers should maintain in their inventory is. .” ”[4].

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Perspectives on the Global Trade Environment: A Panel Discussion

NC State SCRC

It is not so much the application of a tariff, or even leaving NAFTA, but more like “North Carolina leaving the United States!” In support of that global reach, Cheniere has additional offices in London, Singapore, Washington, Beijing, and Tokyo.

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