Kinaxis

MAY 24, 2018

In a highly inspiring key note presentation at the supply chain conference, Fareed Zakaria of CNN spoke about how the jobs recovery following the 2008 recession lagged the economic recovery by as much as 64 months while the same metric for the previous recessions was significantly narrower.

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MIT Supply Chain

APRIL 3, 2014

Robinson (CHR), the world’s largest provider of truckload transportation services, visited MIT CTL recently to give his view of the changing face of logistics. Most people thought of transportation as a part of their overhead.” One reason is the increased focus on cost control in the aftermath of the financial meltdown of 2008. “We

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Intelligent Audit

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In 2008, Dr. Raymond Panko published a paper detailing examples of human error in data entry. To harness the power of big data analytics in transportation , companies also must integrate it with current systems. Shippers can see if they use the wrong carrier, transportation mode, or service level. His findings? Financial Data.

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GlobalTranz

MARCH 15, 2017

LTL gets even trickier according to a report by the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. . The volume of product damage occurring in between manufacturing and retail is substantial - a 2008 study by Deloitte estimated “unsaleable” product cost manufacturers $15 billion annually or 1-2% of gross sales. Among the challenges: .

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Robinson and the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. The volume of product damage occurring in between manufacturing and retail is substantial - a 2008 study by Deloitte estimated “unsaleable” product cost manufacturers $15 billion annually or 1-2% of gross sales. LTL gets even trickier according to a report by C.H.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 5, 2015

Overall Results on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. In the period of 2008-2009, both supply chains made some major shifts. It is exciting to see a country so excited about building global transportation infrastructure. Supply chain leaders make progress in three-to-five years. It is seldom a step change. How Have They Done?

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

While the rest of the world was deep in a recession in 2008, and manufacturers were struggling with payroll decisions and layoffs, Hadoop innovation was in full swing. In the recession of 2008, it took the average consumer products company three-to-five months to sense the recession and redefine product plans. Streaming Data.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

JANUARY 29, 2020

This regulation will see the largest reduction in the Sulphur content of the transportation fuel under taken at any time in the history. m/m in 2020 was taken way back in 2008 and it got ratified in 2016 in the 17th session of MEPC meeting. million metric tons annually. The current maximum fuel oil limit of 3.5% Sulphur cap).

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Arkieva

AUGUST 8, 2016

The Sustainable Freight Action plan released by California governor Jerry Brown outlines a long-term 2050 vision and guiding principles for California’s future freight transportation system. Targets for 2030 Include: Improve freight system efficiency 25 percent by 2030. As seen in the chart below from the Commerce Dept., Read Full Article.

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Arkieva

APRIL 7, 2016

We may also choose to fly material instead of using slower transportation like rail or truck. In her excellent book ‘Supply Chain Metrics that Matter’ (Cecere, L.M., Supply Chain Metrics that Matter, John Wiley & Sons, 2015), Lora Cecere shows how we can reveal the ‘best-practice-frontier’ using so-called ‘orbit charts’.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Demand planning is the most critical process in the CPG industry, since it drives all downstream processes (raw material/finished goods inventory planning, procurement planning, capacity planning, manpower planning, transportation planning, etc.) December 2008. November 2008. October 2008. September 2008.

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TMC

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Transportation management system (TMS) technology helps companies to manage a host of performance metrics – including working capital. High-value metric. Companies can gain competitive advantage by managing the metric more effectively than their rivals. Is Working Capital on Your Logistics Dashboard? during 2015.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Some of those are Cognos, iLog, SPSS, Core Metrics, Emptoris, Vivisimo and many others, as world is moving from reactive to proactive. IBM already has multiple use cases configured for this offering - Water, Transportation, Public Safety and City Planning & Operations. December 2008. November 2008. October 2008.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Other indicators included data pulled from the Federal Reserve economic database, the Producer Price Index, the Purchasing Managers Index, as well as internal metrics such as the size of the company’s own sales force. They discovered that there were several leading indicators of demand, including coal (a 10 month leading indicator).

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JUNE 28, 2012

We spoke to many sustainability and business domain experts who have wide expertise working within asset intensive organizations like Power Generation, Utilities, Oil & Gas, Telecommunications and Transportation. December 2008. November 2008. October 2008. September 2008. November 2009. October 2009.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 12, 2021

2] Yossi Sheffi ( @YossiSheffi ), Director of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, asserts big data already is an organization’s most valuable asset. It refers to the ability to access BI-related data such as KPIs, business metrics and dashboards on mobile devices.” Embedded Analytics.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Ocean shipping , an efficient and cost-effective means for transporting international goods, accounts for more than 80% of global trade. Reducing sulphur emissions by utilizing low sulphur fuel oils in shipping vessels will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% by 2050 compared to 2008 requirements. That’s 8.5

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Our goal is to not only talk about how they can make transportation management more effective through our blog articles about technology and best practices but to also inform them about their own industry and how they might use this information to better their companies.

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6 River Systems

JUNE 10, 2019

Include elements of the processes, technologies, organizational needs, control philosophy and metrics to analyze along the way. He has contributed to studies on advanced powertrains, global sourcing and the 2008-09 crisis in the automotive industry. What is our supply chain mission; and what metrics and targets reflect it?

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