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This Week in Logistics News (September 29 – October 3, 2014)

Talking Logistics

North American Freight Numbers July 2014. One of the early pioneers of software-as-a-service (SaaS) transportation management systems (TMS) was Nistevo, which was acquired by Sterling Commerce in May 2006 (Sterling Commerce had become an AT&T company in late 2005). Song of the Week: “Ana Ng” by They Might Be Giants.

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One Multinational’s Supply Chain Transformation Journey

Logistics Viewpoints

For some customers, they manage the inventory using a vendor managed inventory program. In some case they manage inventory at the customer’s site. “We The company has been on a supply chain transformation journey since 2005. The company has over 300,000 products. across 17 different segments and customer personas.

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Where Do We Go From Here? Taking a Look at the 2016 State of Logistics Report

GlobalTranz

percent annually between 2010 and 2014. trillion in 2014. Changes in transportation and storage of inventory costs made up significant portion of the 2016 SOL. Inventories are a major issue analyzed by the 2016 SOL as well. Yet, the inventory cost increased in 2015 by 5.1 Slow Growth Rate and Low Percentage of GDP.

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Inflation is Back Up – Are you Ready?

Herlitz Inventory Management

Growing up with a father who developed inventory management software for a living spawned some interesting conversations around the dinner table. It hasn’t been lost here at Herlitz Inventory Management! Since 2009, when Herlitz Inventory Management was founded, annual inflation has been below 3 percent in the US. War on Terror.

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New Bookends: The Tale of Supply Chain Global Leaders in Consumer Products

Supply Chain Shaman

The report analyzes supply chain performance and improvement by the Consumer Products Leaders in the period of 2006-2014. In the selection of time frames to analyze, we look at the long-term view including the recessionary period of 2006-2009, the post recessionary period of 2009-2014 and the more recent time period of 2011-2014.

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Sustainable Supply Chain Management.

ModusLink Corporation

When the product has a defect after its production, it is sent back to the inventory to reuse or recycle it. Cardwell, 2014). 2014, July 30). Based on (Ali Esfahbodi, 2016), the main activities in a typical sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) are illustrated above. Vishal Gupta, 2013). Bhattacharjee, K. Cardwell, D.

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And I thought last year’s Top 25 Supply Chain was a surprise

Kinaxis

I am bolder on Samsung, simply because they had the highest 2016 Inventory Turns aside from McDonalds. 1999-2005 – Carly Fiorina. 2005-2010 – Mark Hurd. Three pieces of edgy insights from this: a. My Bold Predictions were not far off. I did call the Nike and Starbucks entry into the Top 10. 1992-1999 – Lew Platt.

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