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The New Definition of Supply Chain Agility and Resilience in an Unpredictable World

Logistics Viewpoints

The definition of agility and resilience will continue to evolve. The creation of a new digital ecosystem has enabled these and other changes that will shape the definition of supply chain agility and resilience in the 2020s and beyond. There are Also Commercial Reasons. The Road to Agility and Resilience.

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Omni-Channel Fulfillment is Key for the Holiday Season

Logistics Viewpoints

ARC Advisory Group, the company that I work for, releases a number of market studies on a number of technologies. These studies utilize a comprehensive bottom-up process for evaluating markets. ARC’s definition of omni-channel fulfillment is end-delivery centric. Clearly this is easier said than done.

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3PL Industry Trends and a Forthcoming Identity Crisis

Logistics Bureau

As a general definition, a 3PL helps a company to get its offering, conceived in place A, into the hands of its customers in place B. The solution is to back up, figuratively speaking, to the general definition of the need and see how overall trends and developments in the world could make this need map onto other, different solutions.

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TWI: Is it Time to Rethink Job Relations?

The Lean Thinker

If we optimize the parts, we will optimize the whole. From the 1944 perspective, the world of physics had been grappling with the idea that none of this is actually true for the previous 30 years or so. ” The 1944 Job Relations trainer’s manual is silent on any direct definition of “Good Relations.”

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Optimizing Employee Transportation: A Checklist

Locus

Now, with the rise of flexible hybrid work models, as evidenced by a recent Deloitte study showing 66% of India’s Gen Z and 67% of Millennials favoring such arrangements, managing employee transportation has become more complex. Read Also: THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO LOGISTICS ROUTE OPTIMIZATION 2.

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Is Saint-Gobain Serious About Reducing Their Carbon Footprint?

Logistics Viewpoints

The 2030 roadmap is targeting a reduction in CO2 emissions of 33% for scopes 1 and 2, and of 16% for scope 3, versus 2017 ( definition for scopes 1, 2, and 3 ). Brazil, the single largest country in which the company operates in Latin America, has experienced significant benefits by optimizing its transport routes.

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Advanced analytics meets social good: how Angel Flight West optimizes flight routes for families in need

AIMMS

North Star Alliance , for instance, uses optimization to find optimal locations for its mobile HIV-AIDS clinics in Africa. Most recently, we encountered Angel Flight West , a non-profit organization that is using AIMMS-based optimization to plan flights for families in need. Angel Flight West route optimization in AIMMS.