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Digitisation: Shifting Gears in 2021

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Suddenly, digital tools, like video conferencing became mainstream. Planning tools stopped providing reliable results. LogiSYM—Vietnam Digital 2020 – LogiSYM December/January 2021. But Covid-19 has turned out to be the biggest game changer and accelerator of the digitisation of our economy and society this century.

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Trends 2024: Risk Management

Enterra Insights

2] Included in her overview are: the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian conflict; the Israeli-Gaza conflict; Houthi attacks in the Red Sea; tensions between China and Taiwan; China’s hegemonic ambitions, leading to territorial conflicts with Vietnam, the Philippines, Japan, and India; and rising concerns about North Korean aggression.

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Supply Chain Risk Management in 2024: A Forward Look with Tom Linton

Resilinc

To address issues around labor, the biggest thing that managers can do is figure out how the latest AI tools and technologies that have become available over the last five years can be deployed and orchestrated to do work differently. Those tools will either eliminate work, change work, or automate work. Life finds a way.’

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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. For example, we produce in Vietnam and China. Vietnam is a low-cost market to produce products.

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Selecting a Supply Chain Technology Provider is Harder than it Seems

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

He joined the then P&O Containers and then subsequently P&O Nedlloyd from 1994-2000, of which a major part of the time was spent in emerging markets such as Vietnam, Cambodia and China, alongside the UK. Then he made a career change to shipping. In April 2021, Mark expanded his role to as Managing Director of APAC & EMEA.

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Supply Chain: Interrupted. A recap of our recent webinar on disruptions and trends from the first half of 2021

Resilinc

Much of it is caused by surges in COVID-19 in China, Vietnam, and other Asian exporters. A leading global pharmaceutical company used our supplier screening tools to screen nearly 30,000 potential suppliers as it sought to vet new vendors in the first half of 2021.”.

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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.