Logistics Viewpoints
JUNE 20, 2022
Those goods flowed through three regional hubs – in Singapore, Panama City, Panama and Stabio, Switzerland – to 49 distribution centers, 24 of which VF operates. VF had committed itself to largely selling goods to consumers in the same region they are manufactured in. BOMs are critical for sourcing and manufacturing.
Logistics Viewpoints
AUGUST 16, 2023
It’s good to see these companies recognizing the impact of climate change, and changing their policies, sourcing, and manufacturing practices to reduce emissions. In 2005, the EU instituted a cap-and-trade system for businesses as a way to cut the emissions that drive climate change. Perhaps the biggest threat is rising sea levels.
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Logistics Viewpoints
MAY 26, 2023
The company has also taken a tech-driven approach to tackling the issue, by investing in machine learning and improving its proactive controls that automate and broaden its intellectual property protection and counterfeit detection systems. Colorado also adopted the rule but will have a heavy duty truck provision begin in 2027.
SYSPRO Smarter ERP
JUNE 21, 2022
There are many causes, for example, container ships from Asia are now too large to traverse the Panama Canal (20 years ago they were not), so they offload on the West Coast of the United States and are compelled to truck all goods to the East Coast. It has already done that in some of the goods that they export, like sunflower oil. .
MIT Supply Chain
NOVEMBER 6, 2014
I’m no fan of Big Government, but there are some cases where a system-wide view is much more efficient than a localized, distributed view. In the maritime example I cited above, the lack of a centralized management strategy for our nation’s port system puts us at a competitive disadvantage. The Ebola outbreak is another case in point.
The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society
JANUARY 3, 2023
The next step of the ZEV declaration integrates workstreams of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) High Level Action Champions (HLAC) with Automotive Manufacturers and The Climate Group’s EV100 to avoid duplication of effort and to pool resources.
Supply Chain Shaman
DECEMBER 30, 2021
There is no good system for visibility. Few planning systems update delivery based on actual dwell times; and despite the abundance of Internet of Things (IOT) data, there is no place to put streaming data signals into traditional planning systems. The landlocked ports of Southern California are especially problematic.
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