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Covid-19 could move UK towards food self-sufficiency May 19, 2020 · by Charlie Hart and Andrew Allen in Procurement, Supply chain, Sustainability The coronavirus pandemic and Brexit could provide a stimulus for the UK to move towards self-sufficiency in food, one of the country’s largest procurement Read more…
64% of manufacturers say reshoring is likely following pandemic: survey May 14, 2020 · Matt Leonard @Matt_Lnrd Dive Brief: As disruptions from the coronavirus pandemic continue to unfold, 64% of companies across the manufacturing and industrial sectors “are likely to bring manufacturing production and sourcing back to North America,” Read more…
Red Hat Extends OpenShift Control Into AWS May 14, 2020 · Dan Meyer | Editor-in-Chief · sdxcentral.com Red Hat expanded managed support of its bread-and-butter OpenShift platform to Amazon Web Services (AWS) allowing for an enterprise-focused Kubernetes service that is jointly managed by both vendors. The move follows up on a Read more…
Episode 72 – Jeanette Barlow of IBM Sterling Jeanette Barlow of IBM Sterling On this episode, I am joined by Jeanette Barlow of IBM. Jeanette is the Vice President of Strategy & Offering Management for IBM’s Sterling team. We discuss the current state of supply chain during the COVID-19 Read more…
DHL: Online orders pushed parcel volume to peak season levels in April May 14, 2020 · Morgan Forde @morgan_forde_ · DHL Supply Chain Dive Brief: An increase in e-commerce orders over the past five weeks has pushed DHL’s parcel volume to peak season levels, according to a press release issued Read more…
Maersk expects freight to drop 25% due to coronavirus May 14, 2020 · by Will Green · cips.org Maersk, the largest container ship company in the world, expects to see freight volumes drop by up to 25% in the second quarter of 2020 due to coronavirus. In an interim Read more…
What is blockchain’s role in supply chain? May 7 – by Sean Galea – supplychaindigital.com What is blockchain and how is it influential in the supply chain? Let’s find out. Blockchain is essentially, as the name suggests, a chain of blocks. However, instead of a physical chain, there’s digital Read more…
Do We Really Want Our Supply Chains Back? May 3, 2020 · By Stanley Chao · Supplychain247.com The push is on to bring supply chains back to the U.S. But, are we ready to contend with the unattended consequences? We’re seeing mounting pressure from political pundits, policymakers and the American public Read more…
