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Confronting the ESG Imperative in Supply Chains

Supply Chain Brain

SupplyChainBrain is presenting its first issue devoted entirely to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)-related topics — with insights from industry experts engaged directly in the effort to forge ethical supply chains, and in a position to offer practical advice on how others can follow their example.

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How Australian manufacturers can achieve the net-zero deadline

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

For example, the manufacturing sector in Australia is one of the top three heaviest carbon emitters within the country. Achieving this environmental mandate presents an opportunity for manufacturers in Australia and beyond to increase their innovation, competitiveness, and resilience. The pressure to confront climate change.

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Fleet Route Optimisation in the Past, Present, and Future

Logistics Bureau

Indeed, the transition has taken place so swiftly that some companies may still need to fully grasp the present or future possibilities to exploit distribution performance as a competitive advantage. Such a system can enable planners to create routes and transmit them directly to drivers via an in-cab display or mobile device.

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Celanese Leads the Pack When it Comes to Agentic AI

Logistics Viewpoints

What Celanese has accomplished is the single best example ARC is aware of employing agentic AI and copilots at scale. He also spoke at the ARC forum in 2023, and this article is based on that presentation as well. Data governance is critical. Celanese is an exception. Celanese was also not looking to take humans out of the loop.

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Strategic risks and the vulnerability of the munitions supply-chain

Logistics in War

One example is the Australian Strategic Domestic Munitions Manufacturing contract, which allows industry access to government-owned/contractor-operated (GOCO) facilities to produce the most critical explosives and ordnance. The forms of the munitions industrial base take up many forms and depend on the country. Transportation.

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Self-reliance and the sustainment of the force – logistics as the bedrock or quicksand of operations in a crisis

Logistics in War

The following text is of a presentation given at a 2019 Wiliams Foundation conference, ‘Sustaining self-reliance’ As the original article cannot be found on other sites, it is provided here with some slight adjustments. Nonetheless, niggling doubts and prudence lead us to consider self-reliance yet again.

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From Push-Cart to Cutting-Edge Robotics: China Skips Traditional Warehouse Automation

Logistics Viewpoints

Although I do not have formal confirmation, I believe that warehouse robotics may be an area where China’s government is supporting research and development efforts to accelerate the country’s competitiveness. Government subsidies would certainly support domestic development of warehouse robotics.