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Scaling the Supply Chain: A Comparative Analysis of Logistics in SMEs and Startups

Logistics at MPEPS at UPV

Despite their importance, SMEs face several logistical challenges, such as limited resources, lack of economies of scale, and difficulties in attracting skilled workforce (Singh & Sharma, 2020). Will blockchain emerge as a tool to break the poverty chain in the Global South? K&S Ranch. Retrieved from: [link] Gonçalves, V.,

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2020 Supply Chain Management Trends

EazyStock

Intro to 2020 Supply Chain Management Trends. The new year is upon us, and with the end of 2019 we reach the end of the decade – and the beginning of 2020. 2020 supply chain management trends will further these shifts. 2020 supply chain management trends will further these shifts. Greening” the Supply Chain.

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Top Takeaways from Coupa Inspire

Logistics Viewpoints

This technology allows businesses to unify their procurement, expense management, invoicing, payments, contract management, and spend analysis processes and reporting. In fact, when Coupa acquired LLamasoft – the leading supply chain design software vendor – back in 2020, the product synergies were not at all clear to me.

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Toyota Kata: What If There Is No Takt Time?

The Lean Thinker

At KataCon 2020, Steve Medland posed a problem that comes up fairly often: The default Toyota Kata process analysis (“grasp the current condition”) involves determining takt times and cycle times for the process, and a lot of processes don’t have an obvious repeating cadence. It means we need to find a different tool.

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Michelin launches UK fleet management brand

Logistics Business Magazine

Speaking at the launch, Matt Childs, Michelin Connected Fleet Operational Marketing Manager UK & France, said: “We are focused on helping fleet managers to accelerate their business with performance analysis services, based on smart data and tools, which lead to better insights and better visibility.

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How Truck Carriers Improve Profits With Analytics & Operational Efficiency via Tech

Turvo

Despite this impact, many carriers also struggled to make ends meet and survive in 2020. Fleets typically lack the tools and resources needed to properly monitor and analyze the volume of data they receive to make critical decisions.” Inability to Utilize Data and Analysis. The Causes of Poor Truck Carrier Profitability.

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Philip Morris International’s Pivot to Smoke-Free Products Complicates their Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Once the analysis was done for Year One set up, Year Two was pretty much the same. In July of 2020, the US Federal Drug Administration (FDA) authorized the marketing of a version of IQOS, a heated tobacco product that Altria is selling under a license agreement with PMI in the US. It was predictable.