The ABCs of DCs Distribution Center Management: A Best Practices Overview

Logistics professionals who operate distribution centers (DCs) have a tough job. Management constantly challenges them to cut cost, which means doing more with less. While focused on that, they need to make sure that customer responsiveness does not suffer and even improves. Clearly this calls for a highly advanced management skill set. This white paper draws on data from three sources. The first is information gleaned from the supply chain audits done at the University of Tennessee. The second is from third party logistics professionals who manage extremely large warehouse networks for very demanding clients. Finally, the third set of inputs was drawn from industry supply chain professionals with extensive warehouse management responsibilities. The companies included some of the largest retailers in the world, prominent manufacturers, and 3PLs.

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Shree Shubham Logistics Limited (SSL)

SSL undertakes an array of activities in the post-harvest value chain for Agri-commodities based on an integrated business model.Our activities include warehousing, procurement, primary processing, trading, collateral management, funding facilitation, funding, testing & certification, and pest management in relation to Agri-commodities. Our activities are aimed at a wide spectrum of market participants dealing in Agri commodities, including farmers, traders & aggregators, government agencies, banks and electronic commodities exchanges.

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SAP Cloud Transport Management

whitePaper | August 11, 2022

SAP Cloud Transport Management service lets you manage software deliverables between accounts of different environments (such as Neo and Cloud Foundry), by transporting them across various runtimes. This includes application artifacts as well as their respective application-specific content. SAP Cloud Transport Management adds transparency to the audit trail of changes so that you get information about who performed which changes in your production environment, and when they did it. At the same time, SAP Cloud Transport Management enables a separation of concerns: For example, a developer of an application or of SAP Cloud content artifacts can trigger the transport of changes in a development subaccount, while the resulting import into the test, and production subaccount is handled by a central operations team

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Clean, green marine: a breakthrough solution for global shipping

whitePaper | August 18, 2022

Expleo has developed breakthrough retrofit and new build systems that replace a vessel’s internal combustion diesel generators with a closed-loop e-methanol fuel cell solution to deliver up to 100 % reduction in operational greenhouse gas (GHGe), significant savings on fuel and future proofing for alternative fuels.

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A holistic approach to sustainable shipping

whitePaper | May 20, 2022

Developing solutions for sustainable shipping requires a holistic view. Main engines for future vessels will no longer be used solely for propulsion. Instead, they will be part of an integrated energy system which in turn will be connected to other vessels, ports and even the complete transportation or logistics chain. Sustainable shipping solutions will also depend on the supply of fuels with a minimal carbon footprint, while future engines will need to be capable of using those fuels reliably, efficiently and with low emissions.

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SECURING THE SOFTWARE SUPPLY CHAIN

whitePaper | August 15, 2022

Cyberattacks are conducted via cyberspace and target an enterprise’s use of cyberspace for the purpose of disrupting, disabling, destroying, or maliciously controlling a computing environment or infrastructure; or destroying the integrity of the data or stealing controlled information.1 Recent cyberattacks such as those executed against SolarWinds and its customers, and exploits that take advantage of vulnerabilities such as Log4j, highlight weaknesses within software supply chains, an issue which spans both commercial and open source software and impacts both private and Government enterprises. Accordingly, there is an increased need for software supply chain security awareness and cognizance regarding the potential for software supply chains to be weaponized by nation state adversaries using similar tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)

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Decarbonising Healthcare Supply Chains

whitePaper | November 17, 2022

The climate crisis is one of the most pressing risks to global health: [1] rising temperatures are resulting in an increase in hospital admissions and heat-related deaths; extreme weather events such as flooding and droughts are disrupting food systems, displacing people, and undermining access to healthcare; and changing patterns of water-borne and vector-borne diseases are threatening decades of progress in infectious disease control.[2] Climate change is also exacerbating the incidence of many non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including cardiovascular and respiratory illnesses, through increased air pollution, extreme heat, and other factors.[

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Reusable Packaging for the New Wave of Supply Chain Automation

whitePaper | November 2, 2022

Now more than ever, companies need their supply chains to be flexible, accurate and nimble to increase productivity and drive efficiency. Speed is king with consumers, as the majority have come to expect products to be in their hands at much quicker speeds than ever before.

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Shree Shubham Logistics Limited (SSL)

SSL undertakes an array of activities in the post-harvest value chain for Agri-commodities based on an integrated business model.Our activities include warehousing, procurement, primary processing, trading, collateral management, funding facilitation, funding, testing & certification, and pest management in relation to Agri-commodities. Our activities are aimed at a wide spectrum of market participants dealing in Agri commodities, including farmers, traders & aggregators, government agencies, banks and electronic commodities exchanges.

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