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Multi-item Scales Utilized in Logistics Research

SCM Research

Quite similar, the Journal of Business Logistics has now published a compendium of multi-item scales utilized in logistics research – a good complement to my collection. 2013) , found that not less than 980 scales were used in four journals related to logistics (IJLM, IJPDLM, JBL, TJ) between 2001 and 2010.

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Whew! It Is Finally Happening.

Supply Chain Shaman

As we have outsourced logistics and manufacturing, I firmly believe that we need to get more serious about the building of Business-to-Business (B2B) networks. These are one-to-many and many-to-many architectures that connect logistics providers, contract manufacturers and suppliers into true supply networks. It is important.

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Seasoned Leadership in Actionâ„¢! An Interview with Michael Massetti, VP at Gartner!

Supply Chain Game Changer

The first huge project I was part of at Dell was our transformation from paper documents in the computer boxes for businesses to what we called E-Docs for electronic documentation. We restructured all of the documents and created one of the first service-oriented websites so all of the information was available on line.

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31 Motivations for Reshoring Manufacturing & Updated Reshoring Stats

GlobalTranz

Errors in interpretation of product specifications, shipping documents, and other critical instructions, due to language barriers are reduced. Overall, from 2001 to 2008 average Asian wages increased 7.1-7.8%, Reverse logistics (returns, warranties) are more manageable closer to market. 7.8%, and currently meet or exceed U.S.

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Vendor Managed Inventory? Think twice and consider the risks!

Supply Chain View from the Field

Plus it saves us all of the headaches associated with logistics and that other messy stuff… ” The concept of Vendor-Managed Inventory (VMI) is defined as a supply initiative where the supplier assumes responsibility of tracking and replenishing a customer’s inventory. Material expediting increased. R eferences. Blackhurst, J.,

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Our Walk In The Fog

Supply Chain Shaman

The promise is the delivery of logistics status information along with analytics to predict a more reliable ETA. While there was a brief flurry of activities in the building of trading exchanges in 2001-2003, but only 10% survived. the current flows are one to one mainly via documents. Redefinition of Transportation Management.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 25-29, 2014)

Talking Logistics

Odyssey Logistics & Technology Corp. Announces the Acquisition of ADS Logistics. FedEx Ground loses new legal round with labor (Logistics Management). For example, a user could use the cellphone mode to make a call, fold the device into smartphone mode to send an email, then fold it into laptop mode to edit a large document.