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The Components of the Mining Supply Chain
The mining supply chain has three key components, reports Mining Technology.
There are three major components of the mining supply chain: exploration, mining, and processing. Across this chain, from mine to market, a range of different countries, companies, and jurisdictions must play a role.
Read more...What’s Hindering the Supply Chain’s Digital Revolution?
Legacy tech is holding back the supply chain’s digital revolution, reports Harvard Business Review.
Supply chains have never been static. Even before the recent waves of disruption in the marketplace, supply chain leaders have been in a race to keep up with changing consumer demands, a shifting competitive landscape, and technological advances.
Read more...USDA Improves Framework
According to the USDA, they are investing in transforming their framework to strengthen the food supply chain.
Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is announcing details of a framework to transform the food system to benefit consumers, producers and rural communities by providing more options, increasing access, and creating new, more, and better markets for small and mid-size producers.
Read more...Supply Chain Permanently Changed
According to FreightWaves, the supply chain will never return to normal.
The conventional wisdom at this time is that most of the world has moved on from the pandemic (except for China); therefore, supply chains will return to “normal.”
Read more...Keeping Semi-Conductor Supply Chain Safe
The war in Ukrainie is highlighting the need to secure the semi-conductor supply chain, reports the Hill.
There are many lessons emerging from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and others yet to be discerned. One insight that the war has reinforced concerns the tremendous strategic value of semiconductors.
Read more...Farm Equipment is Vulnerable to Attack
According to BBC, “smart” farm equipment is open to attack from malicious hackers.
Modern "smart" farm machinery is vulnerable to malicious hackers, leaving global supply chains exposed to risk, experts are warning.
Read more...According to Tech Wire Asia, Maersk is using technology to simplify its supply chain.
When it comes to the supply chain for logistic companies, technology plays a very important role today. As the demand and competition for better services increase in the industry, most of the players in logistics are now competing to make the most of the technology available to them to ensure they are able to remain competitive.
Read more...The Circular Supply Chain
How to jumpstart the circular supply chain, reports Supply Chain Brain.
The circular supply chain is a business model aiming to extend the life of products and materials through reuse, repurposing and/or recycling. Until recently, most supply chains have projected linear patterns from production to consumption
Read more...Pandemic Shows Problems with Just In Time
According to Tech Target, the pandemic has exposed problems in the just in time supply chain model.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerabilities and deficiencies of the lean, just-in-time global supply chain model, and companies must now decide how to move forward.
Read more...Making Shipping More Sustainable
According to FreightWaves, Boox, a reusable packaging company, wants to make shipping more sustainable.
Reusable packaging company Boox aims to be part of a greater movement to make shipping more circular and sustainable.
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