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This Week in Logistics News (January 27 – February 2)

Logistics Viewpoints

technology from helping China’s military. In some cases, shoppers can send back different items than the ones they bought, return stolen items or claim a purchase never got delivered when it really did. percent year-on-year decline in cargo ton miles to 1.8bn, although this metric increased by 9.5 Retailers estimate 13.7

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Foreign Adversaries Threaten Critical U.S. Manufacturing Sectors

Exiger Perspectives

government procurement of critical components. Therefore, despite connections to the Russian military and government, VSMPO-AVISMA has avoided sanctions due to U.S. companies may also have indirect exposure to Russian titanium and nickel through the import of products from companies that directly purchase Russian titanium and nickel.

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How Modern Software Empowers Procurement with Agility and Resilience in Times of Crisis

ivalua

In a recent webinar, “ How to Leverage S2P Platforms to Enable Supply Chain Resilience ,” procurement experts from Forrester, Ivalua and Procurement Leaders discussed how digital transformation and the technologies that enable it can help companies mitigate risk and be more agile and resilient.

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The Secret to Rapid Digitisation: A Dual Platform Strategy

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

While a monolithic enterprise platform is no longer useful in today’s network-based world, it can still play an important role in aggregating and reporting the financial performance processes of the enterprise. Some other radical improvements that have been achieved include: Reducing supplier expediting costs by 60%.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 19 – 25)

Logistics Viewpoints

The potential supply chain impacts of this conflict dwarf any other supply chain news that might be reported. Ukraine does not have the military might to stop the invasion. Oil, gas, steel and metal products account for other everyday items purchased from the two countries.” This week’s news will all center on this war.

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The Forecasting Accuracy Bugaboo

Logistics Viewpoints

Organizations then convert those demand forecasts to the associated quantities of raw materials to purchase, goods to be manufactured, or finished products to ship. It is important to benchmark forecast accuracy and similar supply chain metrics against your peers. Doing this, increases the benefits.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 27 – June 2)

Logistics Viewpoints

Walmart added new functionality that lets sellers purchase shipping labels for domestic orders on its marketplace. Sellers can only purchase a shipping label through Walmart for orders that are in an unshipped status, it noted. manufacturers re-evaluating their reliance on China. Walmart SWW currently offers FedEx and USPS shipping.