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Smart Supply Chains Adapt to Overcome COVID-19 Challenges

Logistics Bureau

Examples are: Samsung Electronics , which is shifting part of its domestic phone production to Vietnam due to the rapid advance of COVID-19 in South Korea. Indeed, the use of drones to deliver medical supplies and transport medical samples for analysis is fast gaining pace in the beleaguered country. The Electronics Industry.

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How sanctions affect shipping companies and trade

Shipping and Freight Resource

Shipping companies are a particular subject of such sanctions, as they may not be direct entities of US or EU sanctions, although the aforesaid restrictions will anyway affect their interests, as shown in several case studies. citizens of a foreign country, entities incorporated under the laws of foreign states, etc.).

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2018 Less-than-Truckload Market Expecting Substantial Growth – Supply Chain 24/7

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For example, unlike truckload (TL), there are few new entrants in LTL because of the steep initial economic outlay to replicate most carriers’ complex hub-and-spoke, brick-and-mortar terminal networks. “The The driver situation is just pathetic, says Shevell. And it’s going to continue to get worse. Related Resources.

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Thailand Distribution Network Design: Should You Optimise or Wait?

Logistics Bureau

Network Optimization Mini-case-study: Building Products Supplier. For example, One Thai enterprise, a supplier of cement and building materials, had a network design similar to that mentioned in the previous section of this article. Is Now the Time to Review your Thailand Distribution Network?

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Will Robots Take All the Supply Chain Jobs?

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An off-cited analysis from McKinsey in late 2017, for example, found automation could destroy as many as 73 million US jobs by 2030, about one third of all jobs in the country. For example, in a story I remembered that we ran in 2014, a company called Parkdale Mills had recently re-opened a factory near Gaffney, SC that now produces 2.5

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

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Gilmore Says… In a great example of the balance in this book, Sheffi notes the actual evidence of consumer preference for Green products is tenuous at best. In fact, after reading Sheffi’s examples, I’m surprised more companies haven’t been forced to be zealous advocates.