Rail freight transport between Vietnam and Europe: A fast and cost-effective option

Vietnam Railways(VNR) launches freight train service to Belgium. Vietnam Railways (VNR) on July 20 added a new rail freight link from Vietnam to Belgium, with the first train departing from Yen Vien station, Hanoi, and expected to arrive at Liege City in Belgium. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, international maritime transport is facing difficulties

Innovative supply chain solutions for 3PL

Logtech empower 3pls to create service offering to customers and new markets. Our agile platform easily adapts to emerging business needs when adding new facilities or onboarding new customers. Logtech’s 3PL customers regularly make improvements in customer service and major reductions in operating costs.

Outsourcing Suspects: Ten Tasks to Outsource

These examples of work components are relatively easy to outsource and offer moderate risks as well as decent cost benefits. 1. Security/Availability Monitoring. This may include activities such as monitoring production system availability, third-party performance testing, intrusion detection, and ethical hacking. 2. Database Administration. Outsourcing a broad set of DBA tasks—in particular, supporting uptime of critical systems—could be extremely cost-effective. 3. Functional Testing. Outsourcing functional testing provides flexibility and price performance. The key is to outsource some portions of testing while both retaining in-house acceptance and investing in knowledge retention and transfer

Halal Logistics Market

According to statistics issued by Pew Research Centre (an organization that emphasizes sharing information on issues and trends that shape the world), Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the world. Based on the centre’s estimated percentage of population growth between 2015 and 2060, the Muslim population will grow at a rate surpassing that of the overall population: 70% and 32%, respectively. Meanwhile, in terms of people count, the total population size of Muslims will drastically increase between 2015 and 2060, with 1.8 billion people increasing to almost 3 billion people.

Principle Bullwhip Effect

Principle (Bullwhip Effect): Demand at the top (manufacturing) level of a supply chain tends to exhibit more variability than demand at the bottom (retail)level due to batch ordering, forecasting errors, promotional pricing, and gaming behavior by customers.