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Chainalytics and Drewry partner to create Ocean Buying Group for small and medium sized shippers

CHAINalytics

Atlanta, GA, 02 March 2018 – Chainalytics, a global leader in supply chain consulting, and Drewry, the global shipping consultancy, have partnered to launch an innovative ocean freight procurement solution for shippers.

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Managing Logistics for The World’s Largest Company with Gary Sostack

The Logistics of Logistics

Right out of college, I worked at a logistics company in Atlanta. Then, we buy and ship it to get oil out of the ground. I was involved with the procurement of equipment and materials. I grew up in New York and graduated from the New York Institute of Technology. 04:37] Tell us about the world’s largest company.

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2024 Predictions for Industry and Global Supply Chains- Prediction One

Supply Chain Matters

As 2024 begins, two of the world’s most critical ocean transit corridors, the Suez Canal , and the Panama Canal are facing threats of shipping disruption as global geopolitical tensions and terrorist threats escalate. Truck and rail transportation movements across the Mexico and U.S.

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The Data Needed to Transform Supply Chains

Talking Logistics

Last fall after attending the CSCMP conference in Atlanta, I shared my observation that digital transformation is now a central theme in the industry. A Deloitte study in 2017 found 49% of procurement officers believe the quality of data is a major barrier, and the lack of data integration was the number two barrier (42%).

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All The Supply Chain News You Need To Know 1.14 - 1.18

Freight Plus

of procurement expenditures. parcel shipping. FedEx Freight Direct will offer heavy and hard-to-handle item delivery to last-mile destinations in Atlanta, Omaha, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and Dallas with a two-hour delivery window. The state has agreed to update to. enterprise solutions. billion by 2016.

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Technologies are changing the Logistics Picture

Enterra Insights

“We may still be a long way away from a future where trucks and ships will be controlled by artificial intelligence (AI) alone,” he writes. In another article, Nahata predicts, “By 2021, 25% of large global companies will be piloting or using artificial intelligence automation in transactional procurement.”[5] ”[7].

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7 Use Cases for Hyperledger in Supply Chain

Supply Chain Shaman

It could be unloading a container from a ship, receipt of a shipment, transfer of ownership, a return, or a change in status. One dinner participant laughed as he said, “The more efficient we try to make procurement, the more we screw it up!” Near Atlanta, GA.) At the hand-off points, data does not flow.