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ZF’s Transition from Lean to Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

I interviewed John Sobeck, Vice President Material Management Services and Supply Chain 4.0 at the ZF Group, about their digital supply chain transformation journey. This technology company is headquartered in Friedrichshafen, Germany. This technology company is headquartered in Friedrichshafen, Germany.

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Should We Celebrate this Marriage?

Supply Chain Shaman

At the time, we were both deployed as consultants for Manugistics to help a manufacturing company to implement end-to-end planning. My goal was to implement demand and supply planning. How Do We Connect Supply Chain Planning Architectures to Transportation Planning? I celebrated a supply chain IPO.

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Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods

Gravity Supply Chain

Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods by giving customers more visibility and greater confidence to accurately predict delivery times. As this new global economic system grew, a corresponding supply chain—complex, powerful, virtually unquestioned—became its structural support system.

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The History of the Shipping Container

Freightos

It has radically transformed supply chains, fundamentally changed domestic and international economies across the world, and changed societies in the process – all the while driving trillions dollars in annual trade. First use of a modern container for ocean freight. Export manufacturing starts moving away from ports.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

GlobalTranz

The Freightos System is SaaS for freight contract management, automatic price quotations, and business intelligence. It has radically transformed supply chains, fundamentally changed domestic and international economies across the world, and changed societies in the process – all the while driving trillions dollars in annual trade.

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How to Harness the Economic Power of Logistics Clusters

MIT Supply Chain

This post will be published in the fall 2013 issue of MIT CTL’s online newsletter Supply Chain Frontiers. In 2001 the government of Aragón in northern Spain realized that its economy had become overly reliant on a small group of industries, notably auto manufacturing. Subscribe to Frontiers here.