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Managing Supply Chain Disruptions in the Middle East

Locus

With the pandemic and political instability, businesses in the Middle East have begun to reconsider supply chain strategy to improve their resilience. Fluctuations in oil prices and oil supply disruptions are majorly caused by political events, supply pipeline issues or weather problems. Oil price fluctuations.

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Decarbonise UK Freight Transport Sector

Logistics Business Magazine

Operating over three years, the UK Research & Innovation funded DUKFT Network, a collection of over forty academic, policy and industry organisation, undertook six research projects and two stakeholder events exploring how to mobilise investment that can enable UK freight decarbonisation whilst managing risk and maximising opportunity.

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Sourcing Strategy: Effective vs Efficient with Ron Crabtree

The Logistics of Logistics

Sourcing Strategy: Effective vs Efficient with Ron Crabtree. Joe Lynch and Ron Crabtree discuss sourcing strategy: effective vs efficient. When developing a sourcing strategy, the focus can be effectiveness (gaining desired results) or on efficiency (reducing cost, labor, and resources used). About Ron Crabtree.

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Supply Chain Predictions for 2022 and Beyond

Logistics Viewpoints

Automation efforts will accelerate: As labor shortages persist, automation efforts in the manufacturing and distribution will accelerate. This is creating the need to shrink the time between identification of a sourcing need and executing on a sourcing event.

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Save the planet by looking into space

Logistics Business Magazine

It’s well recognised that the country is ‘under-warehoused’, especially given the rapid and permanent rise in eCommerce with its demands for increasingly sophisticated distribution facilities. They may have outsourced some of their distribution to a 3PL’s network. That poses a problem, especially in the UK.

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Active Supply Chain Design: A Key Imperative for De Risking Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

Risk events that happen in one part of the supply chain can cause a disruptive effect that is amplified multi-fold given the complex connectivity of labor, raw materials, and capacity. Inflation, pandemics, railway strikes, adverse weather events – the supply chain disruptions keep on coming. are most exposed to risk?

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Building the Future of Logistics, Going Past the Hype

Bringg

These include the following: “Innovation Trigger – A breakthrough, public demonstration, product launch or other event generates significant press and industry interest;”. A far more effective deployment would have each neighborhood connected to a local node, and local nodes connected to a regional and then the national network.