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What to Expect When You’re Expecting Supply Chain Disruptions

QAD

Not only do they expect items in a timely fashion (like 1-2 or even same-day shipping thanks to the Amazon Effect), but customers also demand visibility. Technology Can Help In high volume shipping environments, technology is crucial to improve smooth long term operations. What carriers are needed? What supporting technology is needed?

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Transportation Strategy in a Constrained Infrastructure: 30th SCRC Meeting Kicks Off Today

Supply Chain View from the Field

The 30 th SCRC meeting kicked off today with a theme on “Transportation Strategy in an Infrastructure Constrained Environment”. This is a theme that was discussed a year ago at a conference in DC on Transportation Infrastructure, over coffee with William Lucas from Caterpillar. It is also happening at border crossings such as Mexico.

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Revealing Survey Relative to Business Sustainability and ESG Actions

Supply Chain Matters

There are mixed views in business and supply chain management settings as to whether customers would be willing to both maintain brand loyalty or pay extra for products that are deemed to be sourced and produced from sustainable sources and social responsibility driven labor practices.

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Toyota and USPS See Opportunities for Blockchain Technology in Supply Chain Management

Talking Logistics

Of course, bitcoin as it exists today also has the potential to transform freight audit and payment and other supply chain finance processes, especially for small suppliers and transportation providers. Source: “Blockchain Technology: Possibilities for the U.S. Overview of Fluent Applications (source: Fluent website).

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Experts Choice Of Top Online Logistics Resources

Freightos

So I went straight to the source and asked consultants, trade reporters, Wall Street Journal reporters and others, what their go-to logistics and supply chain sources were. Transport Intelligence, the well-respected U.K. is one of the industry’s most respected logistics sources. Shipping Gazette Daily News.

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3 Trends Underscore Food Shippers’ Need for Supply Chain Management Software

Supply Chain Collaborator

Yet, there are still many food shipping organizations that are using old-school, spreadsheet and email based processes to manage logistics. Room to Grow – Young Leaders Embrace Opportunities in Food Shipping. FSMA Rules Finalized. Read the article in the current issue of Food Shippers of America magazine.

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Delivering Green: Three Case Studies in Low-Carbon Logistics

MIT Supply Chain

Logistics is a leading source of carbon. In this case study we present two Ocean Spray initiatives – distribution network redesign and intermodal shift from road to rail – that in combination led to a 20% reduction in transportation CO 2 emissions, while achieving comparable cost savings across the transportation network.