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How to Protect Your Carrier Assets During Capacity Crunch

Talking Logistics

Having available capacity means more than having enough trucks, rail or steamship carrier assets to manage your business. With capacity in a constant state of flux, it’s critical that shippers and 3PLs maximize efficiencies and assist carriers in maximizing the utilization of available assets. Build a Reliable Carrier Network.

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ZF’s Transition from Lean to Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

ZF has been working with a supply chain solutions provider called SupplyOn since 2001. According to Mr. Sobeck, the SupplyOn solution means that when you need to “register a supplier or to update their information, you only need to do that once instead of several times.” Will the needed parts arrive at their plant on time?

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Analog Supply Chains are an Anachronism in a Digital World

Enterra Insights

It was designed with linearity in mind: a singular focus on minimizing transport costs through building high-capacity, point-to-point distribution infrastructure. And as global trade has accelerated in recent decades, greater levels of investment and manpower have been dedicated to expanding capacity to achieve cost efficiencies.

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Successful Cargo Space Delivery

Freightos

Dragon is the name of the space cargo ship that just delivered 7,000 pounds of freight, including the inflatable room. Then came NASA’s SPACEHAB Logistics Double Module , which provided a total cargo capacity of up to 4,536 kilograms (10,000 pounds). We’re huge fans of innovation in the logistics space. Space Delivery As Science Fact.

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[Video] Sanofi Genzyme trends in pharmaceutical supply chains

Kinaxis

The pharmaceutical company is the result of a takeover by Sanofi in 2001. Typically, supply chains are extended, lead times are long and a thicket of government regulations combine to present some steep challenges. “As It takes a long time to get volumes and capacity up in this business,” he says.

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Buyers, B-17 Bombers, and Heedful Interrelating…Musings for the Week

NC State SCRC

A collective mind emerges as a capacity in an on-going activity stream when activities among people are tied together ascontributions that are subordinated to a joint system. These four lapses are lapses of interconnection in gathering information about unexpected events (Weick, 2001). What does this have to do with supply chains?

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50 warehouse automation stats you should know

6 River Systems

Warehouse automation stats show that automation is making a big impact on warehouses and distribution centers. There are many driving forces behind the automation trend, from rising labor costs to rapid growth in ecommerce sales and a growing demand for rapid order fulfillment , such as two-day and even same-day delivery. ” 3. feet in 2016.