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Elon Musk Ensures that Product Development is Not Siloed

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The discipline has done a good job of driving collaboration between sales and marketing and manufacturing, procurement, and logistics. I attended the SAP Spend Connect Live conference in Vienna, Austria a couple weeks ago. This user conference focused on SAP’s spend management and business network solutions. Musk smiled.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 11 – 17)

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The American and Canadian militaries believe that the balloon was for surveillance, while the Chinese government said it was a civilian meteorological research airship that had blown off course. China’s government has so far not commented on the new sanctions or on the news of the flying object, nor responded to questions.

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Coupa Leverages Community Intelligence to Power AI

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Scale drives profitability,” Turner told a group of industry analysts on April 22 nd , the day before the Coupa Inspire user conference began. She provided examples such as the German Supply Chain Act and the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (approved by EU parliament several hours before Wilczek’s keynote started). “You

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Walmart in a World on Fire

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One of the companies she holds up as a positive example of a big company addressing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues is Walmart. A few years ago, for example, my oldest child explained to me that Walmart was a malignant force. The post Walmart in a World on Fire appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Continental commitment by African Governments to school feeding

World Food Programme Logistics

Spurring innovation, food safety and quality capacity strengthening and economic resilience This year’s Africa Day of School Feeding comes at the heels of the first ever Future of Food Safety Conference held at the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Kenya’s Government celebrates the handover of School Meals Programme.

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Initiating a new national support approach – mobilising national logistics in the support of military operations

Logistics in War

Supply chains are ‘strangling strategy’, with the movement of commodities so significant an issue that logistics is securitising. [1] 2] The integration between military and civilian sources of logistics and support are now extolled as underpinning the ADF’s ability to respond to crises in the future. [3].

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Making the military prepared and resilient – logistics, supply-chains and problems within

Logistics in War

This is the second part of a presentation given at the Australian – New Zealand Defence Logistics Conference during June 2023. This conference convened to discuss supply chain resilience at a time of strategic competition. Part one can be found here. Supply chains move and flex where demand exists.