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Med-Tech Innovation | February 06, 2020

The Edge4Health is being rolled out to more than 60 NHS organisations and will be used by around 30,000 NHS employees. Bringing a familiar, consumer-style experience to NHS procurement for the first time and making purchasing easier and more transparent, the platform now also enables suppliers to the NHS to check and improve their cybersecurity, thanks to a dial indicating whether their rating is good, average or bad. By clicking on the dial, suppliers can download a report that provides a detai...

Supply Chain

Blume Global | March 30, 2021

Blume Global, a leader in digital supply chain solutions, today authoritatively reported Blume Maps, a digital twin of the world's supply chain fueled by patented technology that produces precise lead times and ETAs. With Blume Maps, arranging a freight shipment's course and changing course during the excursion if issues emerge is pretty much as normal as utilizing a route application during a family road trip. Shippers and 3PLs depend on Blume Maps to produ...

PR Newswire | October 20, 2020

Before COVID-19, consumers, policy makers and even corporate executives were mostly oblivious to the global complexity of supply chains. This year's empty grocery shelves and missing medical supplies changed that. Eight months after the pandemic's onset, transportation systems still aren't back to "normal," and researchers from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville's Haslam College of Business expect they never will be. "Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and amb...

Supply Chain

Walmart | July 19, 2021

Symbotic, a robotics and automation company focusing on reimagining the traditional consumer goods supply chain, and Walmart announced a partnership to reimagine the retailer's regional distribution network. In 2017, Symbotic implemented its system for the first time in Walmart's Brooksville, Florida, distribution center. Since then, the companies have collaborated to improve the system. Today, Symbotic will begin upgrading 25 additional regional distribution facilities wi...