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Supply Chain Design: A Tool to Help Maximize Value

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Their time frame was short and resources limited. Supply chain design can help you find answers to a wide range of questions, but most companies begin their journey with one question: “Which distribution centers should I assign to which customers?” First comes the data and how well we understand it.

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Business-to-Anything Integration Supports Agile Supply Chains

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Supply chain collaboration networks, which provide wide ranging visibility to events occurring upstream and downstream in supply chains, can help companies be more agile. These solutions support information exchanges with a community of trading partners. An SCCN can also access pertinent third-party data feeds.

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55 Supply Chain & Logistics Experts You Should Follow on Social

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Keeping up with a complex, multi-layered, global industry is harder than most people think, so we decided to share a list of industry experts who share perspectives, news, trends and timely data on a regular basis on Twitter and Linkedin. Beckworth is an Economist and Senior Research Fellow at The Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

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Microsoft Sinks Cloud Data Center off the Coast of Scotland

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Underwater Data Centers. Microsoft has announced that it is leveraging technology from submarines and working with pioneers in marine energy for the second phase of its moonshot to develop self-sufficient underwater data centers that can deliver lightning-quick cloud services to coastal cities. June 12, 2018 ·.

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Blockchain & Supply Chain Visibility: Will Blockchain Finally Eliminate Supply Chain Black Swans?

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However, blockchain and supply chain visibility may be able to reduce the appearance of black swans by bringing new insights and planning to risk management, helping companies mitigate losses during such events. Unfortunately, supply chain black swans are rare, so leaders may not put as much work into preparing for such events as necessary.

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WFP Philippines boosts logistics to assist Government during pandemic

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The World Food Programme is at hand to assist country already reeling from a spate of extreme weather events A WFP mobile storage unit serves as a temporary isolation facility for the Municipality of Pila in Laguna. National Resource Operations Center (DSWD-NROC), Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao?—?Rapid

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BlueGrace Logistics 2018 in Review

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From new offices to charity events that helped others in so many communities, our amazing team made this year one to remember. Throughout his tenure with the company, Randy was responsible for the growth of the sales and operations departments, and was a critical component of the success BlueGrace Logistics has achieved to date.