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Locus Listed as Representative Vendor in 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for Supply Chain Network Design Tools

Locus

Speaking on the achievement, Nishith Rastogi, Founder and CEO, said, “Given the growing complexities in modern supply chains, more brands are now rethinking their distribution networks. Market trends also continue to evolve faster than ever. Globally, the end customer continues to demand their deliveries in ever-shorter time frames.

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Managing Supply Chain Disruptions in the Middle East

Locus

Fluctuations in oil prices and oil supply disruptions are majorly caused by political events, supply pipeline issues or weather problems. For example: high or low product demand, excess inventory holding, product distribution. Being an unanticipated event, they found it very difficult to find alternate suppliers for their products.

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Blockchain Will Solve, Save, Cure Everything

Talking Logistics

The IBM-Maersk joint venture, for example, aims to “digitize the global supply chain from end-to-end,” creating a “shipping information pipeline [that] will provide end-to-end supply chain visibility to enable all actors involved in managing a supply chain to securely and seamlessly exchange information about shipment events in real time.”.

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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. We are indeed living in interesting times!

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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. Globalization, nearshoring and friendshoring trends are amplifying the supply chain risks. This is where AI can make all the difference.

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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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Building the Future of Logistics, Going Past the Hype

Bringg

Over the last 30 years, I have seen dozens of technology trends predicted as the Next Big Thing, and then disappear into the abyss of innovation. Now more than ever, the challenge for logistics leaders is to capitalize on the right technology trends at the right time, to measurably improve their efficiency or revenues.