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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

GlobalTranz

As a logistics service provider, focusing on over-the-road surface transportation management solutions via technology and managed transportation services, we find the following information on the history of shipping containers of great significance to the logistics and supply chain community at large. Readers' choice! Significance.

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Solving The Cold Chain Challenges

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

One Network has years of experience in healthcare supply networks that provide medicines and vaccines to hundreds of millions of people in Africa and around the globe. The platform also alerts users to potential problems with predictive analytics and proposes optimal solutions using prescriptive analytics as well.

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When Will Blockchain Hype Pay-off in Supply Chain Operations?

Enterra Insights

Many articles about blockchain technology in the supply chain contain the word “potential.” Blockchain expert Ray Battrick notes, “Blockchain has emerged as an ideal solution for use in a wide variety of applications, including supply chain security. first appeared on Enterra Solutions. ”[8]. .”

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Who’s Using Blockchain in 2020, and How?

Logistics Bureau

The diamond and gold, tea and coffee, beverage, food, and automotive industries all have participants with blockchain applications under test, operating as pilots, or implemented as digital solutions to improve supply chain operations. So how well is blockchain living up to commercial and organizational expectations?

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Managing the Procurement of Promotional Goods and Services

Claritum

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. The benefits of purchasing promotional products. Promotional merchandise is a valuable marketing tool that can help to establish brand awareness of a company among consumers. Promotional products are powerful, both as effective forms of communication and as useable, necessary tools.

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The 2016 Techgistics Year in Review

Techgistics

The software and hardware is available now. inVia , another startup, claims to be the first goods to box picking robot where the robot picks from the shelf and places directly into a shipping box. Amazon Go and the Jobless Future in Retail - Amazon is attempting to completely reinvent how goods are purchased in retail stores.

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Counterfeit products are exploding on Amazon

NC State SCRC

A recent WSJ article highlighted a fact that confirms much of what we found in our study of counterfeit products in the supply chain a year ago: if you’re buying on Amazon, beware of counterfeits. Brands will often respond that “you purchased this product through an unauthorized distributor, and it is not our product.”