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Ultimate Guide To Technologies That Are Transforming Supply Chains

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

According to research from McKinsey & Company, the supply chain dimension has the lowest level of digitization (43%) compared to other dimensions, including products and services, marketing and distribution channels, business processes, and new entrants at the ecosystem level.

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Collaboration at the Logistics Sharp End – Can It Work?

Logistics Bureau

What Can Companies Gain from Collaborating in Logistics? Sharing costs and bringing prices down through economies of scale, depending on the type of collaboration, can help each company’s bottom line. US food company Sysco offered an example when eyeing joint operations with U.S. Foods a few years ago. Insights and innovation.

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Collaboration at the Logistics Sharp End – Can It Work?

Logistics Bureau

What Can Companies Gain from Collaborating in Logistics? Sharing costs and bringing prices down through economies of scale, depending on the type of collaboration, can help each company’s bottom line. US food company Sysco offered an example when eyeing joint operations with U.S. Foods a few years ago. Insights and innovation.

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Uberisation of Logistics – Are You Too Late?

Logistics Bureau

The romantic version of the story is that the Uber company founders could not get a taxi on a snowy night in Paris, and decided to invent a system for an alternative taxi service. The Uber model depends on access to a pool of loosely-coupled service providers willing to provide their own assets or resources to get a job done.

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Ultimate guide to technologies that are transforming supply chains

6 River Systems

According to research from McKinsey & Company , the supply chain dimension has the lowest level of digitization (43%) compared to other dimensions, including products and services, marketing and distribution channels, business processes, and new entrants at the ecosystem level.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Third-party logistics companies ( 3PLs ) specialize in distribution, warehousing and fulfillment services. The core competency of these companies is logistics , and they do it well. Even Amazon used third-party logistics companies when the company first started, until reaching sufficient scale to have a logistics arm of its own.

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Supply Chain Innovation: The Next 15 Years

Logistics Bureau

Automation: Many developed countries are suffering a depleting pool of talent from which industrial and commercial entities can recruit. If this situation continues, many companies will be looking at how much they can automate their supply chains to operate with fewer employees and less expense, without sacrificing customer satisfaction.