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Have you Heard About ‘’Chain of Responsibility’’ in the Supply Chain and Transportation?

GlobalTranz

As our customer presence in Australia is growing, we are learning new things from our Commonwealth cousins from ‘’Down Under’’. Although we have much in common, the transportation laws in Australia and New Zealand have a distinct difference with those in Europe, the U.K. and North America. The chain of responsibility law (COR) is one area of difference – so what is COR?

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An Innovator’s Journey to a Segmented Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Kehat Shahar, the Vice President of Supply Chain Planning at SanDisk, spoke on the journey that SanDisk has taken to improve their supply chain operations at the eft conference on June 18th in Chicago. While most of the content for this article came from the speech at eft, some information came from the company’s 10-K, […].

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Cognitive Computing can Help Retain and Leverage Tribal Knowledge

Enterra Insights

Whenever a talented employee leaves a job or assumes a new role, a company risks losing valuable knowledge that he … Continued. The post Cognitive Computing can Help Retain and Leverage Tribal Knowledge appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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6th Annual Chief Supply Chain Officer Forum – Europe

Supply Chain Movement

6th Annual Chief Supply Chain Officer Forum – Europe. Datum: 14-16 October 2015. Locatie: De Maaspoort Theatre, Venlo (NL). Organisatie: Eyefortransport. URL: events.eft.com/cscoeu/. Collaboration: The Cornerstone of the 21st Century Supply Chain. Europe’s annual meeting of the leading supply chain executives featuring the biggest names at leading retailers and manufacturers.

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Scaling Logistics for Success: A White Claw Story

Speaker: Scott Campbell and Molly Feller

As the demand for your products skyrockets 🚀, you're likely experiencing logistical challenges that are preventing you from scaling your business. The sudden surge in demand can be exciting, but it can also put a strain on your supply chain and logistics operations. In this webinar, join Scott Campbell, Vice President, Logistics & Demand at Mark Anthony Services and Molly Feller, VP Logistics as a Service Operations at e2open, as they explore the challenges that arise when companies expe

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How to Become a Freight Forwarder

GlobalTranz

Editor’s Note: This is a guest blog from Bryant Surety Bonds. Cerasis is not a freight forwarder, but technically a freight broker/transportation intermediary who specializes in North American Transportation Mangement primarily for less than truckload shipping, truckload, and small package. Cerasis does work with many freight forwarders who import into the US and need trucks to move from the port inland.

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Supply Chain News on Amazon Said to be Considering Building Uber Like Service to Deliver Packages

Supply Chain Digest

Amazon On My Way Concept would Use Regular People to Deliver the Goods Using Mobile App

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Sustainable Purchasing & Supply Summit 2015

Supply Chain Movement

Sustainable Purchasing & Supply Summit 2015. Date: 22 September 2015. Venue: QEII Centre, London. Organization: Revolution Events. URL: www.spssummit.com . The first UK conference to present an holistic view of sustainable procurement and the role of the supply chain in more responsible business and government. This unique one-day forum is organised with Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS), providing senior executives with a strategic view of the impact of their procureme

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Supply Chain News on LLamasoft SummerCon 2015 Video Review and Comment

Supply Chain Digest

LLamasoft has Revolutionized the Supply Chain Network Optimization Market in a Short Period of Time, Use Cases Highly Varied Across High Profile Customer Base, Trend Towards Doing Collaborative Design with Trading Partners, Engineered Value Chain Initiative at CAT

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LogiMed 2015

Supply Chain Movement

LogiMed 2015. Date: 17-19 November 2015. Venue: Novotel Amsterdam City, Amsterdam (NL). Organisation: WBR. URL: logimedeu.wbresearch.com. LogiMed is the must attend event for heads of supply chain and logistics from the world’s leading medical device manufacturers as they look to achieve commercial and supply chain excellence. With emphasis on peer-to-peer interaction, supply chain leaders can solve their top challenges by learning best practice from 50+ of the most experienced and forward thin

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2024 Annual T&L M&A Report

Tenney Group, an industry specialized M&A Advisory firm in the T&L space, produced the 2024 Annual M&A Report. The report contains an in depth overview of 2023 notable deals and the market, while also providing the outlook for 2024 M&A.

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Supply Chain News on John Hill Unplugged Full Transcript Part 2

Supply Chain Digest

From the Rise of the MHI Organization to Key Mentors to a Vision for a Better WMS, Dan Gilmore Hill Discuss Supply Chain Trends and History

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Logistics planning: From good to great

DELMIA Quintiq

Behind almost every superhero is an intelligent, resourceful support team. With advanced decision-support technology, the support team alerts their superheroes to crime happening nearby, guides them through the quickest route in the city, and encourages them even when the odds are stacked against them. Now, what does this have to do with your logistics operations?

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How IKEA Saves Millions Through Packaging Optimization

CHAINalytics

By Tom Blanck | Principal, Packaging Optimization Practice In a recent article published in the Wall Street Journal entitled “IKEA Can’t Stop Obsessing About Its Packaging,” reporter Saabira Chaudhuri highlights many of the ways Swedish furniture retailer IKEA is cutting waste and boosting efficiency through optimizing its packaging. IKEA CEO Peter Agnefjäll’s mantra is simple: […].

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Supply Chain Cartoon Caption Contest Starting June 29, 2015

Supply Chain Digest

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Gartner’s 2015 Digital Commerce Guide

ModusLink Corporation

As you may have seen in the news last week, ModusLink was included in industry analyst firm Gartner’s Digital Commerce Vendor Guide for 2015. This annual guide takes a high-level look at the e-commerce industry and its major players, split up in different categories, while sharing some tremendous insight into the current state of the […]. The post Gartner’s 2015 Digital Commerce Guide appeared first on ModusLink Global Solutions.

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Inventory Management: Technology Enablers

Kinaxis

by Andrew Dunbar The modern day inventory manager described in this series is the backbone of your company’s inventory planning process. She has a strong understanding of supply chain fundamentals and is an expert at controlling the key levers impacting the inventory company’s investment in inventory. All that’s left is to add a planning system that enables her to work effectively.

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Open Letter to the Chief Financial Officer

Supply Chain Shaman

For most, it is the end of the quarter. While for others, the end of the fiscal year is looming. The end of any fiscal period is a good time to take stock, and reflect. So, I thought, what would be a better time to write an open letter to the CFO? My goal is to help companies perform better in future quarters by improving alignment. Let me share some background.

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Elementum Whiteboards: Trucker Shortage

Elementum

First up in our weekly whiteboard series: American manufacturers rely heavily on trucks for shipping freight – but there just aren't enough truckers to meet demand. What are the reasons for the shortage? The news desk explains in this whiteboard video.

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More Than 40 New Manufacturers Join Configura’s Platform in 2023

More than 40 manufacturers across the commercial interior, material handling, and kitchen and bath industries expand offers via Configura’s CET platform in 2023.

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Sohar celebrates seafarer day with gifts for mariners

Logistics Middle East

Sohar Port and Freezone joined the IMO in celebrating the 5th annual International Day of the Seafarer with gifts and celebrations.

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Southeast Asian Pirates: Nothing to Shiver your Timbers Over

Elementum

The Economist reported this week on the rise of pirates in Southeast Asian waters. With one third of the world’s freight traveling through these waters, the region would naturally be a hotspot for pirate activity. And while Malaysia managed to rein in the issue over a decade ago, hijackings and thefts have been cropping up further east, in Indonesian waters.

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Alstom and National Grid sign major Saudi MoU

Logistics Middle East

Alstom Grid and National Grid SA have announced the signing of a MOU to develop electricity infrastructure in Saudi Arabia.

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Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah Port registers 15% growth

Logistics Middle East

Saudi ports see mixed bag of results for traffic throughout in first five months of 2015

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Fire breaks out as container ship and tanker collide

Logistics Middle East

The tanker Navigator Aries collided with containership Leo Perdana and caught fire in bad weather.

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DP World wins with Jebel Ali at first ever Navis awards

Logistics Middle East

DP World's Jebel Ali Port has won Container Terminal Operator of the Year at the first ever Navis Inspire Awards 2015.

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Unique Group bullish on subsea and offshore sectors

Logistics Middle East

Unique Group CEO says company will double subsea and offshore operations by 2019 through investment and acquisitions.

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