Wednesday, March 4, 2020 · Alexis Bateman and Ken Cottrill
December 2019, some 40 companies from various industries gathered at the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics' (MIT CTL) Towards Circularity in the Supply Chain Roundtable to discuss the innovative approaches companies need to create closed loop supply chains.
When the 2020 USC Marshall Global Supply Chain Excellence Summit convenes this August, humanitarian supply chains and the challenges of current epidemics is certain to be addressed.
A lot has been written about the novel corona-virus impacts on supply chains. Yet of course much of what companies will do will play out over the next decade because supply chains are rooted in physical facilities and capital investments.
As if new newly-imposed IMO 2020 fuel standards and greenhouse gas emissions reduction were not enough, carriers also face fresh costs related to maintenance and insurance.
During this next decade, we can expect to see an acceleration in three design trends that are already rapidly underway. In addition to driving innovation and how we approach design – they will also impact how we operate our businesses.
While many Chinese provinces have ended their official shutdowns, and others are expected to do so by the end of the month, Freightos reports that resumption of work has remained slow.
Global manufacturing and supply chains are continuing to feel the effect of the novel coronavirus epidemic as factories and logistics providers seeking to resume operations now face labor shortages and regulatory uncertainty.
The ramifications of a pandemic event are hard to predict. However, by taking necessary steps to assess risk and prepare for the potential fallout from an event, supply chain leaders can mitigate its impact.
The first generation of warehouse execution systems (WES) brought a new level of orchestration to automated warehouses. The next generation promises to bring a new level of optimization and productivity to the conventional warehouse. Get ready for WES 2.0.
Global ports will see reduced trade volumes as a result of the coronavirus, COVID-19, which would become more severe should Chinese production take time to recover to pre-epidemic levels, says Fitch Ratings.
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