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Editor’s Choice: Why Supply Chain Design Is Not a “One-and-Done” Exercise

Logistics Viewpoints

But first, let’s get on the same page: Supply chain design solutions and definitions. A global food and beverage company used to run a handful of models annually across their European operations. The post Editor’s Choice: Why Supply Chain Design Is Not a “One-and-Done” Exercise appeared first on Logistics Viewpoints.

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Multimodal Impact on Sustainability

Logistics Business Magazine

Multimodal transit, by definition, involves optimized usage of every possible mode of transportation to reduce overall shipping costs and also ensure a large quantity of product movement. Here are a few essential pointers underlining multimodal transportation’s impact on scale and operational value.

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State of the art Logistics Campus

Logistics Business Magazine

The development also incorporates MUGA sports pitches, allotments, edible planting, wildflower grasslands, extensive networks of footpaths to encourage cardiovascular exercise and external break out areas for staff wellbeing. Renewable energy will be generated on-site, with solar panels.

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A Port in a Storm

World Food Programme Logistics

It definitely added a real-life dimension to the training, as we were explaining the importance of preparedness and what happens when we have to deploy to an emergency?—?while In an unusually quick and tidy operation, the ETC had deployed, set up critical services and then packed up again within three weeks. “I disaster simulation.

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5 Paths to Better Supply Chain Visibility

Now, That's Logistics

Suddenly, everyone from the manufacturing plant manager to the distribution center supervisor to the retail store operator wanted to know “where’s my stuff?”—a The inability to clearly see issues affecting suppliers is being multiplied by the speed with which market forces operate today. 5 Good Supply Chain Visibility Strategies.

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Stuck on the wrong side of the world but still needing to deliver food to people in Ethiopia 5,000…

World Food Programme Logistics

My job entails the day-to-day running of the office, coordinating with UNHCR, nutrition partners, government counterparts, and overseeing a variety of operations like food distributions for refugees and livelihood assistance like crop production, livestock, fisheries, backyard gardening, bee keeping and banana cultivation.

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Freeports and Logistics

Logistics Business Magazine

This means that businesses operating inside designated areas in and around the port may manufacture goods using these imports, before exporting them again without paying the tariffs, while also enjoying the benefit from simplified customs procedures. But as a small operator not used to these things, there’s a definite benefit.”.