10 Best Practices for Automating Your Dispatch and Delivery Operations

To manage today’s complexities, current systems are forcing functional groups to resolve problems with outdated processes and approaches. This leads to poor product mix, lower margins, higher buffer inventories, unnecessary premium freight, low productivity and sub-optimal optimization.

The Covid-19 pandemic has been the perfect black swan event that has affected global supply chains with both economic and financial ramifications. In the medical domain, it has become evident that the unprecedented increase in the demand for patients with the virus and the corresponding acute supply shortages have led to new adaptive and constantly evolving supply chain tactics to meet demand. This talk would focus on how the crucial role of logistics services (both forward and reverse logistics) in facilitating dynamic operationalization of strategies to improve the effectiveness of the emergency supply chains. The key takeaways would include how new innovation and supply chain theories are shaping up to explain the resiliency and also what some of the interesting research questions to analyze in the future.

With an increasingly challenging trade environment, where unexpected customs duties can hit your supply chain hard, it’s becoming more important to embrace FTAs (Free Trade Agreements), which can open new markets and make significant cost savings. However, just 23 percent of businesses interviewed for Thomson Reuters annual global trade report used all FTAs available to them. The large multinational companies that do take advantage of FTAs often rely on manual processes to manage compliance.

University of Washington College of Engineering’s Supply Chain Transportation & Logistics Master's degree program partnered with Ajilon to present the webinar Supply Chain & Logistics: A Field for Trailblazers. In a highly globalized and interconnected world, the supply chain and logistics field offers professional possibilities within an increasingly indispensable industry. What do those starting out in SC&L or considering this sector for a career need to know to survive and thrive? Find out by watching this webinar.