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This Week in Logistics News (June 22 – 28)

Logistics Viewpoints

The company said that it used 85,916 metric tons of single-use plastic that year, an 11.6 Flotillas of containerships and bulk carriers are growing off the coasts of Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and China while ports in Spain and other parts of Europe look to dig out from container piles. percent decrease from 2021.

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Insights from Elemica reveal 2014 Frankfurt

Talking Logistics

The German team overcame disappointments in 2006 and 2010 to win the World Cup this year, while favorites Spain (the defending champion) and Brazil (the host country) were humbled by the competition. The answer: Both teams illustrate that past performance is no guarantee of future results.

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Demand-Driven Transformation at Shell

Supply Chain Shaman

Completed in 2012, the ERP project forced the company to standardize organizational design, roles, and metrics. The pilot went live in October 2017 in Spain, Italy, and Turkey and included the inbound materials planning managed by the planning service center in Krakow, Poland. The reason?

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My Notes From the Gartner® Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo™ in Barcelona

BlueYonder

Last month, I had the pleasure of presenting at the 2024 Gartner ® Supply Chain Symposium/Xpo , held in Barcelona, Spain. While the event attracted over 2,000 attendees from all over the world, what struck me was that we’re all facing the same challenges today as supply chain professionals.

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The Evolution of a Supply Chain Planning Support Team

DynaSys

We adapted the metrics put in place by QAD in order to measure our activity, which helped us in understanding what we could do, how we could improve, and what were our limits. The number of support requests increased, and with the growing experience of DynaSys in the Supply Chain domain, more complex projects were started.

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Roundtable Series: Scaling in a Compromised Supply Chain

Unleashed

Three Spirit has a VAT registration in the Netherlands, for instance, but David Press says that to expand to more locations, they’ll need to find a supply from other parts of Europe, such as Germany, Spain, Scandinavia and France. But of course, if you don’t have supply, then those sales just collapse.”

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Supply Chain Roundtable Series: Optimising the Manufacturing Supply Chain

Unleashed

Often, we end up asking the partner in Germany or Spain or somewhere, ‘Can you air freight this? Measuring performance: Key metrics for manufacturers Finally, our experts discussed which metrics are critical for tracking the performance of your manufacturing supply chain – and the success of any optimisations made.