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Supply Chain Management:The Real Headline for the 2011 Holiday.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

» The Real Headline for the 2011 Holiday Buying Season- Need for Balancing Retailer Online and Fulfillment Process Investments. As we approach the latter stages of the 2011 holiday buying season, the uptick in online buying has indeed occurred. Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape.

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Online Learning is Growing Exponentially—And it’s Here to Stay

Logistics Bureau

Whereas online courses and programmes were previously managed as a separate entity, they are now an integral part of most academic systems. Big business from about 2011 onwards started realising the value of adding e-learning to staff training programmes. Online courses are the quickest path for a student to obtain a degree.

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The American trade imbalance and port congestion

Shipping and Freight Resource

As per the stats, empty container outbound movement overtook full container outbound movement as early as 2014, increasing 62% between 2011 and 2021, whereas exports decreased by 49% between 2011 and 2021. Source : Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. Source : project44.

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5 examples of the black swan theory

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

The black swan theory or theory of black swan events is a metaphor that describes an events like the economic downturn and pandemic that comes as a surprise, has a major effect, and often change the direction of politics, the economy and business, and influence the course of history.

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IoT in Logistics: Hackathon Team Aims to Slash Food Waste

IoT World Today

Of course, the Internet of Things and the broader field of artificial intelligence have a host of potential supply chain applications. . Raval said the approach supports initiatives described in the Food Safety Modernization Act, a piece of federal legislation that became law in 2011.

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Logistics in War and national resilience – join the final series!

Logistics in War

The idea of national resilience as it applies to natural disasters has been a government interest since 2011; the concept was formally addressed by the Federal Department of Home Affairs and has since resulted in partnered planning across a broad church of government and non-government agencies including Defence.

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Autoliv’s Supply Chain Risk Management Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

The main take aways from the presentation earlier this year were the following: The auto industry has made supply chain risk management a priority since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011. Then of course, our own team needs constant training because our initiative is evolving over time.