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The Green Corridor: Resilience from Diversification

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The Green Corridor: Resilience from Diversification by Timothy Foote, Founder of Susymbio Access to Sustainable Power is the Challenge of Our Time, but when clean power sources are diversified it promises more stability for our future. Sadly, Malawi’s most used local source of power is its shrinking forests.

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Supply Chain Market Report – August 2022

Elementum

Welcome to Elementum’s Supply Chain Market Report. This monthly newsletter observes one or two important macro trends through the lens of Supply Chain Management. We review how those trends are likely to impact Supply Chain and what leaders can do to adjust.

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Pursue Supplier Collaboration as a Pillar of Sustainability 

Logility

Before COVID-19 arrived in March 2020, most people outside the profession lumped “the supply chain” in with other facets of life that were accepted as both real and vital, but also mysterious, complex, and probably not worth too much attention. What Supply Chain Means Today. ” . “We Grudging respect, perhaps.

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Five Lessons Learned in 2020 – and Where to Go from Here

Bristlecone

We also witnessed the havoc that follows supply chain disruption and saw how even the world’s best healthcare infrastructures can instantly become overwhelmed. The pandemic hit China first, thus disrupting the supply chain of the entire world. Where do we go from here?

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Analytics Should Focus on A Culture of Factory Safety for Workers in Low Cost Country Manufacturing

NC State SCRC

Too often, companies seek to collect data for analytics, but do not consider that the data will be used as a tool for investigation into root causes, or as a predictive tool, or as a tool to communicate improvements. This is a common element, that needs to be more formally captured in the data.

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Strikes and protests disrupt supply chains, globally

Resilinc

They are also disrupting global supply chains. In Sri Lanka, a popular uprising chased the president from the country last week. For supply chain managers, the labor actions of greatest concern are in transport and logistics. Ghanaians are protesting runaway inflation that has seen diesel prices double.

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Freightera vs Traditional and Online Solutions, Freightquote, FreightCenter, Uber Freight, Flexport, Freightos

Freightera

Traditional Non-Automated Freight Brokerages Traditional non-automated brokers still rely on phone calls, and in more cases than you’d think, pen and paper. That means that in terms of speed, they wouldn’t be able to complete with instant quotes and other advantages of automation. In 2015, Freightquote was acquired by C.H.

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