article thumbnail

Digitisation: Shifting Gears in 2021

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Suddenly, digital tools, like video conferencing became mainstream. The creation of the Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA) and an increasing number of startup challenges, incubators etc. Planning tools stopped providing reliable results. LogiSYM—Vietnam Digital 2020 – LogiSYM December/January 2021.

article thumbnail

Selecting a Supply Chain Technology Provider is Harder than it Seems

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Tracking your shipment’s status via GPS or Internet of Things (IoT) devices and viewing route duration data throughout the entire shipping process in real-time will allow you to quickly make informed business decisions to optimize productivity and streamline your supply chain. Then he made a career change to shipping.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Redesign to Improve Value: A Case Study of a Supply Chain Leader

Supply Chain Shaman

These tools are now enabling new capabilities to make trade-offs between volume and cost while helping companies to redesign flows and decoupling points. In prestige beauty and nutritional supplements, the cost to ship the product is minuscule. For example, we produce in Vietnam and China.

article thumbnail

Chinese New Year Shutdown 2020: How to Prepare

ShipBob

In mainland China (and even in other countries that celebrate the holiday such as Indonesia, Malaysia, North Korea, Singapore, South Korea, Vietnam, and Brunei), the Chinese New Year holiday is a very big deal. Shipping delays. For some Americans, the holiday comes and goes without them even noticing. Need help with inventory planning?

How To 136
article thumbnail

Snapshot of 2023 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains- Part Two

Supply Chain Matters

Business and supply chain focused media reports already point to increased supplier and manufacturing investment in regions such as Mexico, Eastern Europe, India, Vietnam and other regions as responses to added supply network resiliency or agility. Higher cost levels will need to be mitigated or reduced.

article thumbnail

As Inventories and Capacity Expansion Grew Too Quickly in 2022, Customers are Forcing Suppliers to Bear the Brunt of Optimistic Forecasts

NC State SCRC

Moreover, Amazon refused even to discuss the situation in good faith with Gilimex, locking Gilimex’s CEO and management team out of Amazon’s headquarters in North Reading, Massachusetts after the Gilimex team had traveled thousands of miles from Vietnam for a meeting.”

article thumbnail

The difference between supply chain and logistics explained

Unleashed

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. Reduce focus on shipping.