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Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2016

Talking Logistics

more near-shoring and larger, less frequent shipments to minimize transportation costs). How will transportation, inventory, and sourcing policy decisions change in light of this cheap oil environment? The Rebirth of Transportation Marketplaces (UberCARGO, Cargomatic, and Freight Friend).

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This Week in Logistics News (August 17-21, 2015)

Talking Logistics

As Joe Dixon, SVP of Supply Chain at Brooks Brothers, commented at the GT Nexus Bridges 2015 conference a few weeks ago: “SAP is our internal ERP system, GT Nexus is our external [supply chain] ERP system.”. Stay tuned for an article I wrote for CSCMP’s Supply Chain Quarterly on this trend, which will be published in the coming days.

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4 Features of an Improving Supply Chain

MIT Supply Chain

Production teams continued to manage bottlenecks as they had always done – by experience. This changed when some talented professionals recognized that applying queuing theory to the data derived from PLCs would enable auto manufacturers to forecast production line bottlenecks. Subscribe to the publication for free here.