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Charge Me Up! Energy Storage Development – A Fast Emerging Technology Needed for Sustainability

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The first iPhone only came out in 2007 – ushering in smart phone apps and all the rest in very quick succession. For transportation and logistics – the revolution to decarbonize is likewise well underway. Fossil fuel proponents like to claim that oil and coal are the only “rainy day” energy source out there.

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This Week In Supply Chain Management Tech April 4 2023

Supply Chain Matters

Founded in 2007, Rotterdam based Flo Group specializes in Oracle focused logistics software support and deployment services capabilities. The deal reportedly will further enhance Oracle’s logistics software deployment capabilities across Europe.

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QAD Solutions Guide: Offering Overview

QAD

The QAD solution offering has expanded beyond the original QAD MFG/PRO (1984-2007) software to now include a full-featured suite of integrated software solutions to manage manufacturing, financials, operations, customer and supply chain processes. Transportation Execution. Transportation Execution. Transportation Analytics.

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Energy Efficiency Is Key to Better Logistics

Material Handling & Logistics

And customers, many of whom are Millennials, want to know the sourcing of the products they buy and will make decisions based on a company’s sustainability record. This is where it gets tricky, according to Yossi Sheffi, director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. Last-Mile Delivery.

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Twitter Insights from GT Nexus Bridges 2015 Conference

Talking Logistics

One area in particular, which both Sean Feeney and Kurt Cavano (Vice Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer at GT Nexus) highlighted in their keynote presentations, is Transportation Management Systems (TMS). Moving forward, GT Nexus plans to extend and enhance its TMS footprint across the full TMS lifecycle: Transportation Sourcing.

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The Changing Face of Manufacturing: How US Manufacturers are Looking Homeward

GlobalTranz

While this is bad news for oil producers, it is good news for US manufacturers who will see a significant fall in the cost of manufacturing and transportation. In July 2007, the price of natural gas rose to an astronomical $14 per MMBtu. Fall in the price of natural gas.

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3 Initiatives Driving Sustainable Transportation and Logistics Management

BlueYonder

Recent studies have shown that transportation is the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. In 2007, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated that CO2 emissions from transportation surpassed two billion metric tons ; it’s hard to imagine what that number looks like today.