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Three Key Takeaways from MODEX 2024

BlueYonder

I have been going to MODEX since 2004 when it was called NAMH (held in Cleveland) and have made an incredible number of connections, some of which have become lifelong clients and friends. Material handling and supply chain industry professionals converge at a few marquee shows across the world. Read more in this article.

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Shippers Access Newly Released Enterprise Multi-Carrier Parcel Shipping Solution in Transportation Management System With New Partnership

GlobalTranz

(Eagan, MN) – North American third-party logistics (3PL) company, Cerasis, in partnership with Pierbridge , a leading transportation management software development company, announces the addition of multi-parcel carrier shipping management to the Cerasis Rater, a web-based transportation management system (TMS).

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Coronavirus Highlights Fragility of Global Supply Networks

Jaggaer

Since 2004 the city of Wuhan, at the center of the outbreak and in lockdown since January 23, has been a focal point of the Rise of Central China Plan, making it one of the country’s key inland hubs for advanced manufacturing. China ’ s economy has grown in leaps and bounds from roughly 4% of world GDP in 2003 to 1 6% today.

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6 Things We've Learned from McDonald's Procurement Management

AFFLINK

To improve the situation, McDonald's created the Restaurant Supply Planning Department in 2004 to help restaurant owners do a better job at procurement management, based on both store-specific data and national factors like holidays and promotions. This process was an arduous one that took up a lot of the owners' time and resources.

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3 fun games to teach your families about 3PLs

DELMIA Quintiq

So try these three games (in no particular order) with your family and give them a taste of the industry basics: Lords of Waterdeep: Storing and shipping adventure. Along with Monopoly, Risk is one of most well-known board games in North America, and for good reason. For more information, check out this post. Risk: The KPI war.

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Freightera to Build North America’s First Low Emission Freight Marketplace

Freightera

Freightera’s Go Green option now allows shippers to choose freight quotes by lower emission, in addition to price and shipping time. Freightera Logistics’ award-winning online freight marketplace has partnered with Natural Resources Canada’s SmartWay program, to help create the North American Low Emission Freight Marketplace.

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Hollywood’s Top 10 Supply Chain Disaster Movies

Resilinc

The Day After Tomorrow (2004) We typically think of rising temperatures and global warming when we think of climate change. Deep Impact (1998) In Deep Impact , a comet strikes the earth, creating a mega-tsunami that devastates the Atlantic coasts of North America, South America, Europe, and Africa.