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Polycrisis, Antifragility, and What’s Missing from Digital Transformation

Logistics Viewpoints

Polycrisis” was the talk of Davos at the recent meeting of the World Economic Forum, which defines it as “…a term used to describe the current global situation, where multiple complex, interconnected crises are occurring simultaneously.” And the true secret sauce to excellence is to fold in systems thinking and organizational learning.

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What is the Difference Between Logistics and Supply Chain?

The Logistics Academy

Logistics is the connection from one node or point to another; supply chain is a series of sequential nodes or points connected to one another. The bottom line was that there was no universally accepted definition for “supply chain.” Benn Bekic. Chief Strategy Officer, WiseTech Global. ” Joel Sutherland.

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The Future of Retail Distribution

247 Customs Broker

Fast-forward to 2018 and retailers are using a combination of store, vendor-based and DC fulfillment—all of which come together to create one big, multi-node facility. This provides a definite plus for the retailer that’s looking for long-term solutions to their key distribution challenges.” . Autonomous Robots.

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From the Desks of the Entire ShipChain Team – 9/25/2020

Shipchain

There are definitely other development teams – and that ranges from direct transport industry to protocol-level like with Baseline. Fairly early on, we determined that traditional API data integration services would meet our needs by providing a scalable, cost-effective, and predictable means of data sourcing. .