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Freeports and Logistics

Logistics Business Magazine

For instance, rather than paying tariffs on separate components required to be imported from elsewhere, all parts could be transported tariff-free to a free port zone and then assembled within it. Customs measures include allowing imports to enter the free port custom sites with simplified customs documentation and a delay in paying tariffs.

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Supply Chain Management:Importance of Proactive Master Data.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

We came up with an action plan of having a MDM Quality Report based on Product-Locations master data, Transportation Lanes & Production Process Models (PPM) master data from APO Production environment. Dumps of Product-Locations & Transportation Lanes were taken and queries were designed to check some basic parameters.

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7 Mini Case Studies: Successful Supply Chain Cost Reduction and Management

Logistics Bureau

Supply Chain Cost Management Results: Deere & Company’s supply chain cost-management achievements included an inventory decrease of $1 billion, a significant reduction in customer delivery lead times (from ten days to five or less) and annual transportation cost savings of around 5%. Sunsweet Growers.

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Navigating unchartered waters

Automotive Logistics

The 2018 Global Risks Report, published by the World Economic Forum and Zurich Insurance Group, suggests that the number of cyber breaches recorded by businesses worldwide has almost doubled over the past five years, from 68 per business in 2012 to 130 in 2017. It is also likely that cybercrime remains significantly under-reported.