Logistics Viewpoints
APRIL 21, 2023
Although CMA CGM is best known for being a large container shipping company, it is also the parent of CEVA Logistics. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published an article on the increasing use of machinery to create made-to-fit boxes for more efficient fulfillment shipping. In percentage terms, Vietnam’s exports grew the most.
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 21, 2014
One of my favorite interviews on this topic, that I recently completed for my upcoming book Metrics That Matter , was with Amway’s Chief Supply Chain Officer George Calvert. In prestige beauty and nutritional supplements, the cost to ship the product is minuscule. For example, we produce in Vietnam and China.
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Unleashed
MARCH 31, 2021
When we refer to the ‘supply chain’, we’re referring to the network of suppliers, manufacturers, producers, shipping companies and more who, when combined, produce, ship and sell products and services to end-users. The life of coffee begins with growers in the likes of Brazil or Vietnam. What is logistics?
Gravity Supply Chain
MAY 20, 2022
Spire provides real-time information and analytics based on global maritime automatic identification system (AIS) technology—Spire’s constellation of small satellites captures the courses and current status of container ships across the globe. In 1956, manually loading a ship cost $5.86 billion metric tons as of 2017.
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 14, 2015
He had recently returned from his stint as the commercial leader for Syngenta in Vietnam, and was excited to tell me about his beach-side investment in Australia. We outsource about 80% of the primary ingredients of our crop protection business, and pack it in finishing plants and ship to warehouses.
NC State SCRC
APRIL 27, 2016
Will digitization change the way we measure things and monitor metrics? Customers change the quantity they ship inside of lead times set by the supply base, and the quantities double. How will real-time intelligence help me any more than what I’m doing today?
Requis
OCTOBER 30, 2020
Sourcing is now predominantly overseas: China is one of the big sourcing countries of course, along with India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Vietnam and Thailand. It’s a lot more forward focused than our traditional view, in which we’re steering the ship by looking over our shoulder at the wake. That’s been a massive trend.
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