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How to Mitigate Risk in Demand Driven Supply Chains

Logistics Bureau

However desirable it may seem to run manufacturing, warehousing, or transport operations at 100% of their capacity, to do so is to invite severe problems in the event of supply shortages or sudden demand peaks. However, inventory is not the only way to buffer the supply chain and reduce risk. Capacity Buffering. For instance, you might….

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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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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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Introducing a Cryptocurrency for the Food Supply Chain

Supply Chain Brain

Its purpose is to serve as compensation for the multiple nodes within a network that are keeping copies of transactional data generated by supply chains. From OriginTrail’s perspective, Trace isn’t even the main event. Says Levak: “It’s all about how to broker trust between businesses.” Comment on this article.

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The Dispatch Report | October 2019, Issue No. 12

Shipchain

We are incredibly grateful to have been selected by the World Economic Forum (WEF) to build a toolkit outlining how to understand the complexities of and manage blockchain integration. With over 22 nodes run by community participants, this marks the next step on our journey to a decentralized supply chain revolution.

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The Dispatch Report + Full Product Launch | January 2019, Issue No. 10

Shipchain

Almost two years ago with knowledge of the problems of the freight industry and some rough ideas of how to solve them, we’ve been able to plot, survey, and develop the systems we’ve now launched. We recently wrapped on a launch event in Tokyo, Japan with the majority of our team. Upcoming Events. But that’s not all.

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Getting Started with AI in Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Consider a planner in Brazil working with the previous lead time prediction example, who has forgotten how to update the parameters. Concurrency combined with AI is the breakthrough, because it connects islands of isolation and aligns the nodes of your supply chain.