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Schneider Electric’s Supply Chain Design Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

These facilities produce and ship 150,000 order lines per day. Rather than shipping directly from a factory or a distribution center to a different region, they shipped to a port hub where shipments from a region could be consolidated, allowing them to build fuller ocean containers and ship fewer loads.

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Amazon and the Shift to AI-Driven Supply Chain Planning

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When unexpected disruptions occura factory shutdown, a shipping delay, or a supply shortagethese models provide little flexibility. A 2023 McKinsey study found that companies relying on reactive supply chain management lose up to 10% of annual revenue due to inefficiencies and missed opportunities.

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Global Compliance and Regulatory Changes in International Shipping

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Global shipping and transportation present tremendous opportunities for businesses, but they also bring complex challenges, particularly when it comes to compliance. Understanding Global Compliance What is Global Compliance in Shipping? Security protocols also continue to evolve.

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Alleviating the Uncertainty of Peak Season: The Role of Home Delivery in 2024

Logistics Viewpoints

Understanding what consumers want With billions of dollars of orders poised to test the capacity of retailers’ shipping operations this peak season, minimizing fulfillment uncertainty and transforming customer confidence through optimized last mile delivery becomes priority one.

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Mastering Disruption: A Smarter, More Connected Approach

Logistics Viewpoints

Three months into 2025, we have seen a barrage of on-again, off-again tariffs that have supply chain and logistics teams reeling, as they must rethink everything from next weeks shipping route to their foundational network models. The Ukraine-Russia conflict is ongoing. Its value is recognized by shippers as they choose logistics partners.

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Studies Identify Top Supply Chain Disruption Risks

Supply Chain Matters

Two recently published studies identify the top disruptions that impacted industry, business and global supply chains during 2024 and our expected to be present in 2025. The post Studies Identify Top Supply Chain Disruption Risks first appeared on The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group / Supply Chain Management.

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Reinventing Supply Chains: Focus on Human Factors

Supply Chain Shaman

Commercial teams operate in a ship-to environment, but the supply chain teams operate in a transactional world based on a ship from model. Visibility of the translation layer of ship to converted to ship from is not existent. Let’s take a case study from the current class on outside-in processes that I am teaching.