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National Logistics Day 2023

Enterra Insights

It has been around since 2005 and is celebrated every year as a way to thank those who work hard behind the scenes, ensuring that goods are delivered quickly, efficiently and safely.”[3] ” You don’t have to convince supply chain professionals of the importance of logistics. Logistics helps to create value.

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Supply Chain Resilience Core Capacities

MIT Supply Chain

Part 2: Lessons from Comparing Disruptions In the previous post in this two-part series, The 7 Core Capacities of Supply Chain Resilience , we identified the core capacities that are the building blocks of supply chain resilience. Source: James B. In the matrix, this is referred to as a secondary impact.

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The Data Behind Amazon’s Logistics and Fulfillment Play

Freightos

Not even B2B is spared from these changing expectations (which is why we at Freightos launched an online freight marketplace ). While freight industry executives likely sighed with relief when an update of Amazon’s logistics.amazon.com page on June 28th turned out to be nothing more than a franchise model for courier delivery services.

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Energy Efficiency Is Key to Better Logistics

Material Handling & Logistics

Logistics providers have discovered that sustainability in the supply chain delivers a good ROI. For a long time now, corporations and their supply chains have been required to prove that they are acting in a sustainable, environmentally-friendly way. We are in the middle of everyone’s supply chain.

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Logistics, Perpetually in Motion (Takeaways from Descartes Evolution 2016)

Talking Logistics

Second, Descartes continues to expand and strengthen its transportation management system (TMS) footprint , as the slide below illustrates: Source: Descartes. Back to the “logistics in motion” theme, the freight forwarding and customs brokerage segment of the industry has experienced significant changes over the past decade.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 13-17, 2015)

Talking Logistics

Now, this week’s supply chain and logistics news, which was dominated by transportation-related items: Are Imports Moving to the East Coast? Cass Freight Index June 2015 Report. And here’s a chart they included in the post: Source: [link]. Or is it due to a temporary slowdown in freight movements in the quarter?

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Justifying Investments in Risk Avoidance

MIT Supply Chain

This is the classic Catch-22 dilemma faced by many corporate security managers when trying to justify further investments in steeling the supply chain against disruptions. The obvious conundrum is that hardening the corporation, its processes, and its supply chain requires investment. Replacement sources were soon found.