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This Week in Logistics News (October 3-7, 2016)

Talking Logistics

It is going to take several more years and millions of dollars more to bring other promising technologies to market and to find a cure, which is why the money we raised is so important. My daughter was diagnosed with T1D on October 4, 2011 — five years ago this week at age 11. Why do I do this?

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SCRC Partner Profile: A Textbook Transformation at Biogen-Idec

Supply Chain View from the Field

In a growing number of companies today, supply management is being asked to demonstrate deep insights into customer requirements, and to quickly translate those insights into product offerings that often rely more on outsourced capabilities. Biogen Idec Inc. is showing how this can happen in the biotech sector. Headquartered in Weston, Mass.

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3 Uses of IoT Tech Spurring Sustainability in Supply Chains

GlobalTranz

IoT Tech is Driving Sustainability in the Supply Chain. But perhaps the most far-reaching changes will center around the use of large data systems to drive sustainability in logistics and supply chains. billion tons of oil in 2011, worth approximately $743 billion. Using IoT Tech to Make us More Fuel Efficient.

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Perseverance With a Pinch of Grit

BlueYonder

Kranthi Remala is a senior software engineer at JDA in Hyderabad. Left to right: Kranthi, her father, Mr. In 2007, I got my first offer as a Software Developer in a Product Development company called iMotions, headquartered in Denmark with its development center in Hyderabad. How did you land a career in supply chain?

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Perseverance With a Pinch of Grit

BlueYonder

Kranthi Remala is a senior software engineer at JDA in Hyderabad. Left to right: Kranthi, her father, Mr. In 2007, I got my first offer as a Software Developer in a Product Development company called iMotions, headquartered in Denmark with its development center in Hyderabad. How did you land a career in supply chain?

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Interoceanic Passages

Abivin

In the current global economy, the closure of a maritime chokepoint would have significant economic ramifications due to the disruption of trade flows and even some supply chains (e.g. As of 2011, the cost for container ships was $74 per TEU of capacity for laden containers and $65.60 Gibraltar and Suez during World War II).

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Today, DB Schenker handles the complex supply chain of multinational companies like Apple, P&G, Dell, BMW and Ford, offering land transport, ocean freight, air freight, contract logistics and supply chain management divisions. It manages the supply chain for 69% of the Fortune 100 companies. Revenue: €5.66