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How 3D printing is reshaping the future of supply chains

Manufacturer's Monthly

Supply chain issues started with COVID-19; however, they’re also affected by intensifying geopolitical tensions, increased consumer demand, labour shortages, inflation, depleted inventory levels, and increased freight costs. We’ve identified five emerging trends impacting global supply chains in 2022: logistics disruptions.

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Scope 3 Emissions – More Than Suppliers

MEM

However, there are 15 different emission sources included in scope 3, as defined by the greenhouse gas protocol corporate reporting standard. They can be the largest part by far of an organisation’s carbon footprint, and not all of them can justly be laid at the foot of the supply chain. Freighting and transport.

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Supply Chain as a Service

Dinesh Mishra

The components of Supply Chain as a Service typically include: Integrated Business Planning: comprehensive solutions for demand forecasting and planning, supply planning, ecosystem impact planning, and risk resilience. Dissociated & siloed systems make industry run at “t-2” or “t-1” days older data at best.

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What is supply chain?

Fastener News Desk

A supply chain includes all the raw materials and parts that are made into a product and distributed up the chain for manufacture and sale. A supply chain includes all the raw materials and parts that are made into a product and distributed up the chain for manufacture and sale. What are some supply chain risks?

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Power to the people: hydrogen in transport

SMMT

With fossil fuels being phased out of the commercial vehicle industry over the coming years, hydrogen power is seen as one of the possible new clean energy sources that could take their place. Hydrogen will be sourced from multiple green hydrogen projects across South Wales including Protium’s “Pioneer 2” and other projects.

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Stratasys to Combine with Desktop Metal in Approximately $1.8 Billion All-Stock Transaction

Additive Manufacturing

Through smart and connected 3D printers, polymer materials, a software ecosystem, and parts on demand, Stratasys solutions deliver competitive advantages at every stage in the product value chain. You may obtain free copies of these documents from Stratasys or Desktop Metal using the sources indicated above.

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India’s EV Revolution: E2W and E3W show the way

Dinesh Mishra

which are 15% to 30% lower even at the landed cost (including freight and duties). Another important role of retired batteries is as a source for mining raw materials for locally manufacturing new batteries for EVs. This will result in the EV ecosystem development to thrive in India and the value chain to further develop.