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

Logistics Viewpoints

We must plan, source, make, and deliver differently for supply chain sustainability. Pharmaceutical manufacturer Amgen built a new biomanufacturing plant in Singapore that uses 70% less carbon than traditional facilities. These examples address the source, make, and deliver areas of supply chain. Buffering creates waste.

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Supply Chain Disruption and Digitization

Enterra Insights

Most of these devices can be connected to the Internet and can become an incredible source of information that would otherwise not available.” And truck platooning is being experimented with in North Carolina. Regis Hotel in Singapore from 8 a.m. ” Social media. Blockchain. to 10:30 a.m. local time.

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Perspectives on the Global Trade Environment: A Panel Discussion

NC State SCRC

The goal is to create redundant sources based on supplier-specific and country-of-origin, to ensure that each product category has redundancy as a form of insurance on the supply chain. It is not so much the application of a tariff, or even leaving NAFTA, but more like “North Carolina leaving the United States!”

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