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Fundacion LOGyCA has four main areas:
- CLI – Center for Latin-American Logistics Innovation. CLI is the Latin American member of the MIT Global SCALE (Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence) Network, an international alliance of leading-edge research and education centers, dedicated to the development and dissemination of global innovation in supply chain and logistics. To achieve innovation and economic growth in Colombia and Latin America through research and education in transportation, logistics and value networks, CLI has partnered with 23 leading academic institutions in the region and 13 leading companies in Colombia from different industrial sectors. These companies provide funding for research projects, which are chosen by their strategic importance and relevance of the competitiveness of companies in Latin America.
- Consultorias (Consultancy). Through this service LOGyCA advices and supports the implementation of adequate logistics management within companies. Advisory processes focus primarily on the redesign and implementation of logistics practices aligned with corporate strategies established by the company.
- Formacion (Training). With more than 12.000 people trained from the major companies in Colombia, LOGyCA contributes to manage relationships across supply chain, including the different areas within the company and its partners.
- Inteligencia de Negocios (Business Inteligence). Through this area, LOGyCA works on out-of-stock studies, forecasting and benchmarking.
Other areas are:
- Desarrollo de Clientes (Client Development)
- Human Capital
- Innovation
- Public Relations
- Accounting
4 Focus areas of LOGyCA:
- Sustainability. Logistics activity is framed within the tension generated between the economic dimension and the responsibility with the environment. A first approach in this area: measuring the carbon footprint, in order to find opportunities and define actions to solve this problem.
- Collaboration. The collaboration involves the willingness to share information and beyond this, knowledge, this is the advantage of stronger supply chains.
- Resilience. Capacity that involves more than managing risk, involves having the skills to manage it better than competitors, which is related to the rate of reaction that a company has to recover and achieve the performance levels that it had before an adverse event .
- Connectivity. Tools for connectivity: barcode and electronic product code as the only language to refer to products, services and locations, e-commerce standard and shared infrastructure through collaborative efforts of customers and suppliers. |
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