supply chains

How to repurpose a factory in a crisis

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Medical suppliers must change how they manage their supply chains, and factories need to be able to rapidly pivot to manufacturing different products, in order to respond quickly to the next major crisis and avoid shortages of vital medical goods, experts say. Lack of PPE and ventilators at the start of the coronavirus pandemic occurred partly … Read more

How the ‘physical internet’ could revolutionise the way goods are moved

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Shipping goods from furniture to food could be transformed by a new transport network called the ‘physical internet.’ It is built on similar principles to the internet, which revolutionised the way information flows around the word, including open access and global interconnectedness. Researchers hope to make it a reality by 2040, when a fully autonomous network … Read more