OPEP presents OPULSE- the fortnightly newsletter, Volume 4 Issue 1

1. Scandal-Hit VW Needs
More than a Year to Fix
All Cars
The world's biggest carmaker by sales
has launched investigations into who
was behind the scam involving over 11
million diesel cars that were equipped
with software that switches the engine
to a low-emissions mode during
tests.The so-called defeat devices then
turn off pollution controls when the
vehicle is on the road, allowing it to
spew out harmful levels of toxic gases.
3PLs to Take to Become a Strategic
Partner
3PLs are much more than an outsourced logistics
execution channel today: They're assuming larger
contracts, more complex projects and increased authority
as trusted advisors to companies navigating the omni-
channel landscape. But with greater responsibility comes
greater expectations all around - and it's up to 3PLs to
rise to the occasion.
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Omnichain: The Supply Chain
Reimagined
Today’s manufacturers have to operate in a highly
pressurized, customer-centric world of ever-increasing
complexity. While endeavoring to meet customers’ high
expectations around product quality, availability and
rapid delivery, manufacturers are running intricate global
supply chains
Flipkart's Big Billion
Days sale fails yet again
Flipkart's 'Big Billion Days' sale has yet
again run into glitches this year, and this
time the e-commerce giant is tendering
apologies to its sellers in Agra whose
products have been removed from the
site for almost two days now due to
delivery issues. They couldn’t dispatch
the whole order even on the third day
because Flipkart's logistics partner is
only collecting partial orders, saying
they have been asked only to collect
certain orders owing to huge demand.
Meanwhile, Amazon and Snapdeal,
Flipkart’s main competitors who also
had their own sales, seemed to handle
the heavy traffic just fine. Snapdeal
even issued a statement saying that it
saw record traffic for its Electronics
Monday sale and was on track to reach
$100 million in transactions.