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7 Supply Chain Cost Saving Ideas from SpaceX

Supply Chain Opz

This method was extended within the industry and later it''s called "Value Engineering" or sometime called "VA/VE". After that, the Japanese auto industry adapted this concept to its situation and they called it"Target Costing". - What would that cost? It may seem to be too simple but this concept spread like the wildfire.

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The Amazonification of Logistics

Techgistics

Amazon has had such a major impact on eCommerce, that I thought it would make sense to look back on some of their innovations that are directly or indirectly impacting logistics: Super Saver Shipping Super Saver Shipping was introduced in 2002 offering free shipping for orders over $25.

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

6 River Systems

Revenue data is sourced from the companies’ websites and market research platforms such as Macrotrends. A behemoth in the logistics industry, UPS has operations in shipping, air freight, trucking, last-mile delivery and drone delivery. To this day, NFI Industries is privately held by the Brown family. Møller Mærsk Group.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 9-13, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Container Cargo Imports Surged at End of 2016 (WSJ – sub. Source: Amazon patent filing. If Amazon has serious plans of realizing this idea, there’s already a company in the UK called Mole Solutions that has been working on creating “underground freight pipelines” since 2002. Alphabet Inc.’s and Europe every day.