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Silicon Valley in a Box with Mike Zayonc

The Logistics of Logistics

Supply Chain Fund and Supply Chain accelerator program. Plug and Play’s portfolio comprises companies such as Dropbox, Guardant Health, ApplyBoard, Course Hero, Einride, Honey, Blockdaemon, N26, PayPal, and Rappi. Mike is a Partner at Plug and Play where he founded the firm’s $25.5M

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IMO calls for seafarers to be designated as “key workers” during COVID-19

Shipping and Freight Resource

IMO has echoed shipping industry calls for governments to keep shipping and supply chains open and grant special travel exemptions to seafarers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ships and ports need to remain fully operational in order to maintain complete functionality of supply chains. In a Circular Letter No.4204/Add.6

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The Zara’s logistics process

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

Of course, the rapidly expanding network of stores requires constant adaptation to the sequence and size of deliveries, as well as their routes. Zara is a worldwide icon of fast fashion, renewing both men’s and women’s clothes once a week. Emerald, 2006. Resources: BARNES, L. & & LEA-GREENWOOG, G.

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Parcel Deliveries Clogging Up City Streets

LandLink

Cities don’t have reliable data on the number of delivery trucks coursing through their streets; let alone planning for them. million in parking fines in 2006. Looking For Solutions Cities can’t just ticket their way out of the delivery-truck problem. UPS paid New York City $18.7 In 2011 in Washington, D.C.,

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Successful Cargo Space Delivery

Freightos

NASA awarded the company a commercial orbital transportation services contract in 2006, to design and demonstrate a launch system to resupply cargo to the ISS. And of course having unusual cargo, an unusual carrier and an unusual destination, calls for an unusual cargo vessel.

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“Women, logistics, trucks, warehouses… very cool!”

World Food Programme Logistics

Then one fateful day in 2006, I saw an opening with WFP on Simeulue, an island in Banda Aceh. Most of my roles were in logistics and supply chain, but since WFP Indonesia’s strategy shifted in 2016, we’ve focused on technical assistance and capacity building. And all over Aceh, there were a lot of WFP women working in the field.

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Aptiv takes a global approach to mobility

Automotive Logistics

Aptiv is taking a highly centralised approach to the logistics operation supporting the new division and has made Jeffrey Richards its global director of logistics and supply chain operations, responsible for the sourcing, network design, continuous improvement and emergency logistics for all operating units. Tackling complex networks.