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CeMAT Southeast Asia & LogiSYM Asia Pacific 2025: Robotics Drive Forward as Supply Chains Strategize

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From May 19 to 21, 2025, CeMAT Southeast Asia and LogiSYM Asia Pacific were co-located for the second consecutive year at Singapore EXPO, creating a comprehensive platform for the regions logistics and supply chain community. trade policies on sourcing strategies, inventory flows, and distribution networks amid rising costs.

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Driving Sustainable Supply Chain Change

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by Stephanie Krishnan – Associate Vice President, IDC Manufacturing & Energy Insights Asia/Pacific, IDC Asia/Pacific. “By By 2025, to improve long-term supply chain profitability, 60% of manufacturers in global supply chains will invest in software tools to support sustainability and circular economy business models.”.

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The VF Corporation Invested in Supply Chain Agility Before COVID Made “Agility” the New Buzzword

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Mr. Bailey has worked most of his career at VF – as an industrial engineer in facilities, in strategic sourcing, running offshore operations, and now as the person in charge of the company’s entire supply chain. VFC’s supply chain sourced over 410 million units of apparel, footwear, and accessories in their last fiscal year.

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

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Similarly, UPS has strong commitments to sustainability and invests in many options, such as alternative fuel vehicles, e-cycles in dense cities, and carbon offsets for purchase with shipping. We must plan, source, make, and deliver differently for supply chain sustainability. But what about the role of planning?

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The Green Corridor – Optimal Tech for Green Logistics – Making Emissions Visible

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Raw materials, parts and services are currently all running through supply chains and manufacturing processes and emitting GHGs. I recently toured the Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Centre (ARTC) in Singapore. Arcstone sells digital systems to optimize manufacturing. Tim at ARTC Singapore. Timothy Foote.

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Molex Prizes Agility

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The fact that most manufacturers struggled to achieve supply chain agility during COVID is not news. Molex has more than 80 manufacturing facilities around the world supported by an 18,000 strong supplier eco-system that provide raw materials, electronic components, and services. The Molex Supply Chain. But they were very basic.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 22 – 28)

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Walmart announced that it will pilot agriculture technology with crop supply intelligence company Agritaskto get real-time information on crops and improve sourcing decisions around produce. The company is selling Coyote for $775 million less than the purchase price. And now on to this week’s logistics news. billion in 2015.