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Why Digitalizing Sourcing is a Must for Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

The key to this lies with sourcing. Before diving further, let us define what sourcing is. Sourcing is the practice of finding and selecting suppliers for a range of services (e.g., Traditional sourcing practices tend to be highly manual and are fraught with latencies and inefficiencies. Digitalizing sourcing (i.e.,

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Global Supply Chains in Flux as U.S. Tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China Take Effect

Logistics Viewpoints

auto parts are sourced from Mexico, making the tariff impact immediate and severe. Exploring alternative shipping routes via Gulf Coast ports to bypass land border congestion. Fast-tracking partnerships with alternative logistics providers to bypass Chinese ports and avoid tariffed shipping routes. Approximately 40% of U.S.

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Modeling brewing capacity to drive cost savings at HEINEKEN

AIMMS

In 1966, HEINEKEN became one of the first Dutch companies to adopt container shipping. Decades later, they would debut a climate-efficient shipping route between their brewery and the port of Rotterdam. Can you tell me about HEINEKEN’s AIMMS-based Brewing Capacity Model? HEINEKEN is a very de-centralized company.

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What’s going on with global supply chains: A primer for the casual consumer

Freightos

You’ve seen the Suez Canal memes, you know furniture is taking way longer than usual to get to your door, and you may have even heard about Pelotons shipped by air to reduce delivery times. While the cure for COVID is well on its way, there is no vaccine for what’s afflicting container shipping. Credit: Lufthansa ).

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LTL Capacity Best Practices in Times of Tight Freight Capacity

GlobalTranz

The capacity crunch has been a core concern of shippers for several years, but as 2018 draws closer to the holiday shopping season, it will become a bigger problem. LTL capacity has routinely been used as a source of added capacity when full truckload becomes unavailable. In a Nutshell The shipping surge will continue.

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What Makes a Truly Agile and Resilient Supply Chain?

Logistics Viewpoints

We didn’t know how long COVID-19-related shutdowns, and the ensuing port congestion and crunch on carrier capacity, would last. It now seems that port congestion and capacity issues will persist throughout the year. This is where visibility to suppliers and new souring options becomes critical.

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When it Comes to Ocean Shipping, We Have to See Beyond Today’s Squalls and Plan for the Long Term

Logistics Viewpoints

When you can barely see beyond the bow of the ship, when extreme wind and waves threaten to throw you off course – or worse, sink you – it’s understandable that long-term thinking can get chucked overboard like so much extra ballast. It’s an apt metaphor for ocean shipping these past many months. And the list goes on.