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10 Books Logistics And Supply Chain Experts Need To Read

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All those books would weigh 49,000 kilograms – half the cargo mass of a Boeing 747-200F. Amazon has 31,817 books about supply chain and 24,934 about logistics. That’s 56,751 supply chain and logistics books. Stacked, those books would be as tall as 10.7 Empire State Buildings. Which so happens to drive global supply chains.

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How Shipping Overcapacity Could Be Maersk’s Salvation

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Back in 2012, the company decided to transfer IT decision-making powers from the corporate level down to individual business unit CIOs. The first Maersk E Class ship was delivered in 2006 and was able to carry 14,700 TEU, a world record at the time. Twenty such ships were ordered.