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M Bridge 16 2022 LOGISTICS,YESTERDAY; SUPPLY CHAIN, TODAY; AND SUPPLY NETWORK,TOMORROW

Bridge, 2023

Multiple events of the past years drove companies to reconsider the design of their global supply networks. Initially, the pandemic has destroyed the ongoing global supply-chains and companies have scrambled to increase supply-chain resilience thus ensure capacity and availability. In the aftermath of COVID as well as through the invasion in Ukraine, it clearly reflects a ripple effect of events that disrupt these same supplychains in new ways [4]. This background has lead industry experts and academia to create a synergy and provide seamless awareness about the fast tracked these global trends pertaining to supply of goods and services. Working in isolation and trying to “reinvent the wheel” is fundamentally detrimental to a sustainable................

Logistics Management in the Commercial World The Logistics Perspectives

Bridge, 2022

Logistics makes a major impact on economic activity in any country as it is the strategic link between two stages of the supply chain. The paradigm of interconnectedness continues to hold command in today’s global community irrespective whether your origin is from East, West, North or South. The risk of breaking the supply links was much evident in the post covid new normal scenario. For example, even the domestic supply chains in Sri Lanka (SL) are seems vulnerable to frequent breakdowns and price volatility. Sri Lanka wishes to convert the country to a naval, aviation, commercial, energy and knowledge hub in Asia. Therefore, improving logistics performance is a priority policy objective. This paper discusses how the learnings from military could help to improve performance of commercial logistics in Sri Lanka.

Principles of Supply Chain Management

2010

Professor Faustino Taderera, the celebrity and towering figure, is the most published and finest Supply Chain Management and International Business brains ever produced by Zimbabwe and the African continent, an academic icon and guru nicknamed, "The Tom Peters of Zimbabwe, Africa and the Middle East." His students call him, "The Rumbler, The Caterpillar, The Rollercoaster and King Solomon," mainly for his passion, depth and incisive research in these areas. This book, Principles of Supply Chain Management, his 58th book, is a unique set book for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Logistics & Supply Chain Management and covers topics like:- supply chain; international transport documentation and their legal aspects, inventory; logistics; bonded warehouses; shipping documentation and customs procedures; exchange control regulations; insurance; L/Cs; hedging; incoterms and contracts. Professor Faustino always says, "Golden fish have no hiding place. I am...