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Supply Chain Sustainability Gathers Steam

Logistics Viewpoints

The global supply chain is routinely beset by challenges, both large and small, but the past couple of years have delivered a string of significant logistics disruptions that have threatened to upend the tightly choreographed dance of global freight transportation. That’s starting to change. More and more large U.S. In the U.S.,

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Enabling Innovation Groups To Sell More Effectively to Operations Leaders

ThroughPut

Whether it is access to data, maneuvering around competing innovation objectives, tracking down actual factory-floor operators, or involving oft-neglected procurement groups, there are internal bottlenecks everywhere.

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Supply chains on film

Supply Chain Movement

Supply chain professionals can learn a lot from Hollywood about outsourcing, sustainability, Big Data, innovation, supply chain strategy and risk management. Transportation against the clock. In Sorcerer (1977), drivers are tasked with transporting creates of explosive nitroglycerin through the South American jungle in two old trucks.

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Hub Group acquires Exel Transportation Services

Supply Chain Network

(NASDAQ: HUBG), one of the nation’s leading freight transportation management companies, announced today that it purchased Exel Transportation Services (ETS) for $83 million before post closing adjustments. ETS is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hub Group, operating independently under the name Mode Transportation.

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Air Cargo Got It Wright: 9 Incredible Air Cargo Facts

Freightos

The company still aggressively pursues innovation. #3 Memphis International Airport comes in 2nd. trucking freight quotes from some of the world’s best forwarders. “This is huge” Mr. Anthony Foxx US Secretary of Transportation. Today DHL Express boasts a fleet of approximately 120 airplanes. million tons (4.4

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This Week in Logistics News (February 25 – March 1, 2019)

Talking Logistics

Bot features include pedestrian-safe technology from the iBot, plus advanced technology such as LiDAR and multiple cameras, allowing the zero-emission, battery-powered bot to be aware of its surroundings […] FedEx plans to test the bot this summer in select markets, including Memphis, Tenn., pending final city approvals.