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Find your Warehouse Rhythm

Logistics Business Magazine

Emphasizing the importance of adaptability, reliability, speed and cost in project management, he forecasts further growth in retail micro-fulfilment, challenges in recruiting and retaining warehouse workers and a need to improve environmental, social and governance (ESG) outcomes for customers. AI, of course, is high on the agenda.

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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.). various banks).

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Supplier Quality Management: What it is, 5 Key Metrics to Know & a 4 Step Supplier Evaluation Process

GlobalTranz

The next posts in the series will break down metrics and issues to consider in SQM by industry and conclude with a case study on the application of SQM. It measures the percentage of products that are in compliance with government regulations and internal guidelines. First, what is Supplier Quality Management (SQM)?

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Talking Circular Supply Chains with Deborah Dull

Logistics Bureau

You have a fascinating background with the Gates Foundation, in case our audience wasn’t aware of that, but you’re also a true expert in the circular supply chain, so let’s get right into that topic. Deborah: So, the supply chains that we have today support our current global economy, of course, and that economy works in a line.

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MIT’s Sheffi on Supply Chain Sustainability

247 Customs Broker

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.

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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. After all, the upgrade is slated for completion by 2022 at the latest.

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Will Robots Take All the Supply Chain Jobs?

247 Customs Broker

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