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What is Supply Chain Visibility and Why Isn’t It Enough?

Logistics Viewpoints

This example illustrates why supply chain visibility isn’t enough. Because we call it a supply chain for a reason – each link is connected, so if you rattle one link, you rattle the entire chain, as Boeing famously discovered in 2007 when a bolts and screws shortage delayed their Dreamliner. Why transparency is better than visibility.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Attracting Millennials to Manufacturing: Understanding Millennial Experience in Order to Gain Talent

GlobalTranz

Millennials have witnessed countless layoffs, periods of market instability, offshoring of manufacturing entities , and other significant events in their lives. Unfortunately, these events lead to one common issue: millennials do not view the manufacturing industry as previous generations did. Economic Instability.

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Ethics in Procurement – Simple, but Not Always Easy

Logistics Bureau

How procurement handles itself and its activities set the tone for all the events that follow, right up to the final delivery of goods and services to the end-customer. For example, how would you deal with the following situations in procurement? Read on for more about these examples in the text that follows.

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COVID-19 and the 5 major threats it poses to global food security

World Food Programme Logistics

For example, it is believed that the survival rate of patients suffering from Ebola was affected by what healthcare workers call “preceding nutritional status” or the baseline nutritional health of people affected by the virus. With their general population suffering from malnutrition, it would be much, much worse than China.”

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Deutsche Post DHL Group | Mar 15, 2018: DHL extends logistics partnership with Formula 1 and strengthens its motor-sports team through integration of specialized provider DOT

247 Customs Broker

With 21 weekends scheduled within a nine-month period, this season’s number of races has only ever been matched once in the pinnacle event of motor sports – in 2016. The DHL Fastest Lap Award has existed since 2007 and is conferred to the driver who has achieved the greatest number of fastest laps during the season.

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Current State of the Capacity Crunch

GlobalTranz

Since 2007, the Panama Canal has been under construction to allow larger ships to pass through the gates, which will bring a huge shift in the amount of ocean freight being delivered to both sides of the country, asserts JOC.com Staff. Expansion of the Panama Canal Will Increase Incoming Ocean Freight.

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The Holidays and The Logistics Crunch: It’s all about the Planning & a Fun Comparison of Logistics & A Successful Turkey Day!

GlobalTranz

In the United States for example, Thanksgiving brings the logistics industry to a screeching halt on Thursday and Friday. This year, more Americans will give thanks for the opportunity to travel to friends and family than any year since 2007,” Doney said. from last year to 41.3 million, auto group AAA predicted.