Freightos

DECEMBER 2, 2021

So in January, as players across the global freight industry were discussing how to navigate higher freight rates, delays, and capacity shortages , Freightos.com, a global freight booking platform and part of the Freightos Group, reached out to our customers to find out how logistics disruptions are impacting them. What’s the solution?

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MIT Supply Chain

APRIL 3, 2014

Logistics on the move. The logistics role is changing according to John Wiehoff, CEO of C. The logistics business has changed dramatically over the last 20 years. Robinson (CHR), the world’s largest provider of truckload transportation services, visited MIT CTL recently to give his view of the changing face of logistics.

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Freightos

AUGUST 31, 2016

We have exciting news at Freightos – we’re proud to announce that we’ve acquired WebCargoNet , a leading logistics technology provider. In many respects, this should be a good time for the logistics industry. And yet, logistics providers are challenged by rising shipper expectations and dropping margins.

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MIT Supply Chain

APRIL 27, 2023

For example, UPS management wants more flexible work contracts that allow the company to flex with changing market conditions. Echoes from the past Over the last 250 years, technological innovation has driven industrial revolutions that have brought transformative change to society in general and the workplace in particular.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 17, 2015

For the past few years I’ve been using that phrase, which you typically find in investment literature, when making the case for innovation in supply chain management. As the table below shows, back in 2008, the U.S. trailed both Saudi Arabia and Russia in oil production, and it trailed Russia in natural gas production.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JULY 9, 2015

Retail Internet Convergence is the explosive arrival and growth of mobile commerce that will have a significant impact on the way businesses are managed in the future, from revenue and logistics to the supply chain and bottom line. Keeping Logistics in Step with the Speed of Mobile. to meet customer needs. from 1997-1999.

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Requis

JULY 14, 2020

Steeped in the investment world since 2008, Brian decided very early on to focus on supply chain and operations investment. After graduation in 2008 I joined Jeff Citron at KEC Ventures (noted for stock trading platform Island ECN and Vonage; Jeff is also known for Datek Online). That stayed with me.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 25, 2016

“There are no sacred cows here,” said Chris Timmer, Chief Commercial Officer at LeanLogistics (a Talking Logistics sponsor) in his opening remarks at the company’s ClientConnect 2016 conference last week. Innovation Lab Leveraging Services. One great example is built-in tutorials. BI Enablement for Actionable Intelligence.

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 20, 2015

manufacturing sector following recent years of reshoring and great slow-down of new off-shoring by major manufacturers, and gradual economic recovery from the 2008 financial markets disaster, appear likely to increase the workforce deficiency over coming decades, in light of ongoing staff shortages. Meanwhile, the U.S. In recent decades, U.S.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Sales and Operations Maturity Model from 2005-2008. Notice how the water turns from blue to brown in Figure 3 with the lack of demand translation capabilities within the enterprise for manufacturing and logistics. The industry considers the company a leader, but I know the dark side that internally, the IT processes squash innovation.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

Editor's Note: This is a guest blog from Freightos , is a SaaS-enabled marketplace for the logistics industry. Early examples of intermodal containers include railroads from 1830s (various sized containers), and Pennsylvania Railroad regular container service (1929). Loading and unloading was particularly troublesome. Significance.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 24, 2015

Notwithstanding many sound reasons for reshoring , an Information Technology and Innovation Foundation report indicates that U.S. There were 10% fewer manufacturers in 2011 than in 2008—a record low since 1977, when the Census Bureau started collecting Business Dynamics data. Future Outlook of Reshoring in America. manufacturing.

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RFgen

AUGUST 29, 2016

A Past of Innovation. Additionally, the plant has dropped energy and water consumption by 27 and 15 percent respectively since 2008. The Panini sticker campaign is only one example of sustainability success at the Dunkirk plant. Another major focal point for sustainability is supply chain logistics management.

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RFgen

AUGUST 29, 2016

A Past of Innovation. Additionally, the plant has dropped energy and water consumption by 27 and 15 percent respectively since 2008. The Panini sticker campaign is only one example of sustainability success at the Dunkirk plant. Another major focal point for sustainability is supply chain logistics management.

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Freightos

JANUARY 28, 2016

There’s been several great predictions for logistics in 2016. Tech giants thrive on opportunity, and more are exploring logistics opportunities. Forwarders have their innovation heads in cloud technology, so that they move data as well as they move freight. The best recent example? Beware the Giants from the Amazon.

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Freightos

JANUARY 28, 2016

There’s been several great predictions for logistics in 2016. Tech giants thrive on opportunity, and more are exploring logistics opportunities. Forwarders have their innovation heads in cloud technology, so that they move data as well as they move freight. The best recent example? Beware the Giants from the Amazon.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 29, 2015

We've already listed the top 10 manufacturing articles, the top 10 supply chain articles, and yesterday, the top 10 logistics articles. Among the most discussed catalysts for the next approaching transportation capacity crunch, we have to look at collaboration between all the players in the myriad of logistics layers.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

In 2014, I co-founded and continue to Chair the Board of ReMAP which is a $25M private/public partnership focused on accelerating the commercialization of Canadian innovations in the advanced and electronics manufacturing space. This was the beginning of what is now known in the industry as JDM or Joint Development and Manufacturing.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 27, 2019

He noted that reaching such aspirations isn’t possible without supplier innovation. We need to free up the back office to allow people to focus on the more important stuff, including Innovation around digitalizing our processes and improving products for our customer’s benefit.” You’ve got to work this.

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 20, 2013

The supply chain solution from Adva Optical Networking is in a class of its own when it comes to planning and translating planning into production, says Krych, noting that ADVA Optical Networking found an elegant implementation of an innovative idea with its supply chain segmentation customized to the specific needs of the industry.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 12, 2014

In 2011, the United States was home to 10 percent fewer manufacturing firms and manufacturing establishments than in 2008. Yes, manufacturing jobs are up by 700,000 since 2010 , but there are still over 1 million fewer manufacturing jobs than there were in 2008. labor force was 35 percent smaller than it is today).

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KEPLER Consulting

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

On the front line since 2008, the automotive sector was quickly forced to adapt and work on the flexibility of its model in order to maintain a robust economic performance. Recurring examples. Steering columns or exhaust lines are striking automotive examples. 2 Facilitate Arbitration.

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Supply Chains Rock

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Wednesday, October 01, 2008. They are an innovative producer of high quality sweeteners, breath mints and semi-pharmaceutical products, has begun working with arviem to improve its global supply chain visibility for trade lanes between China and Europe. 4 comments: logistics malaysia. About.com - Martins Logistics Blog.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 27, 2022

Let’s take P&G as an example. The company transitioned from an innovator in the 1990s to a late adopter in the last decade. So, while companies can achieve economies of scale in administration, sales, and logistics, the economies of scale for make, source, and deliver only happen when companies aggressively manage complexity.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

APRIL 8, 2014

Logistics and Distribution. There are pre-packaged software applications which help companies in analyzing their data and give them meaningful insight into their data - examples are customers demand trends, financial analysis, sales optimization etc. Communication Services. Consumer Packaged Goods. Financial Services. Healthcare.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 9, 2014

percent, the lowest since September 2008. Can the industry create a business and operating model where drivers become a shared resource between carriers, enabling drivers, for example, to drive a load a certain distance, then switch at a meeting point, and drive a different load back home, all in one day? Last week, the U.S.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JUNE 20, 2012

Logistics and Distribution. Gopi Krishnan - As regards operator driven maintenance, I see examples of the self-service concept here. The Facebook parallel is a great example of lateral thinking - of applying concepts learnt in one place to a totally different context. December 2008. November 2008. October 2008.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 30, 2015

Editor’s Note: As an older Millennial who landed in Transportation Management & Logistics marketing, our target audience are manufacturers who ship freight. Unfortunately, the passion began to fall through when the oldest millennials entered the workforce in 2007 and saw a huge economic collapse in 2008. Economic Instability.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Logistics and Distribution. Research has proved that the use of social media can vastly improve the sales, lower costs of procurement and bring about innovation in the supply chain. For example, an internal social media application can help the purchasing team collaborate more effectively with the payables team. December 2008.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JULY 3, 2012

Logistics and Distribution. In this blog, with the example of Asset Management for personal health, they emphasize on identifying avenues for adding more Asset definitions to the EAM purview. An excellent article, really on the cutting edge of EAM scope innovation. December 2008. November 2008. October 2008.

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Requis

JANUARY 17, 2020

For a quick introduction you can review this article he wrote for DHL Logistics. During the global financial crisis (GFC) in 2008, we came closer than anyone realizes to a total halt in global trade because banks couldn’t trust each other with credit. Make a distinction between “business as usual” and “the innovation incubator”.

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Requis

JULY 24, 2020

You can start with things like logistics, and see how much things have changed in just the past five years. He agrees that 10 years ago, it would have been difficult to do things that we see innovators doing now, because technologies weren’t as advanced. “If Aoaeh finds Floyd’s scepticism understandable.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The conference was a great opportunity to interact with logistics and procurement executives in an environment of open dialogue and discussion. All of a sudden, everyone is “knocking on the door” of procurement and logistics, asking for cost improvements. Many executives are simply naive when it comes to this area.

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Supply Chain Insights

JUNE 30, 2017

Because the consumer products manufacturers have a wealth of other data including revenues, promotion performance, supply chain and logistics, and consumption marketing research, it became sensible to combine and align this data into a single repository from which they can better sense, understand, respond and predict consumer demand.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 9, 2021

And because of that, when we- and we do predictions, we’ve done this since our inception in 2008 and we’ve had a traditional format for how we do our predictions. So that’s certainly a consideration here, as well as the area of logistics and, you know, again, the end-to-end visibility that logistics provides.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

Logistics and Distribution. Few such examples are: Google is inviting its employees in the Santa Monica area to try out its Google Shopping Express service for same day delivery pilots. Think of all the jobs that would be created, but also the logistics that need to be managed! December 2008. November 2008.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Value-added along the value chain is, thus, represented by a “smiling curve”, with increasing levels of value added on one end through R&D, Design, and Commercialization activities, as well as the other end where Marketing, Specialized Logistics, and Brand Management, and After-Sales Services that are customer-facing are critical.

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