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Insights from Elemica reveal 2014 Frankfurt

Talking Logistics

What do the Germany World Cup Team and the Boston Red Sox have in common? Meanwhile, the Red Sox won the World Series in 2013, going from worst to first in one year — and then back to worst in 2014. As I wrote earlier this year in Is Your Business Model Safe? , Supply Chain Operating Networks Accelerate Business Cycles.

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E2open Acquires icon-scm: Five Reasons Why You Should Care

Supply Chain Shaman

The supply chain management market is troubled and needs some excitement. The product, a licensed offering, was designed to enable a “rapid response” of what-if analysis in material-centric discrete supply chains. This licensed software offering was purchased at slightly under 3X revenues.

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The secret to distance selling success

DELMIA Quintiq

Distance selling has seen double digit growth in Germany for the past few years, and it’s showing no signs of slowing down. In 2013, the German E-Commerce and Direct Selling Trade Association (BEVH) reports a growth of 22 percent, with a turnover of €48.4 In 2013, German consumers spent a total of €165.5 Got a comment?

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SAP to Expand Cloud Presence with Acquisition of Ariba

Supply Chain Network

The acquisition will combine Ariba’s successful buyer-seller collaboration network with SAP’s broad customer base and deep business process expertise to create new models for business-to-business collaboration in the cloud. The transaction is expected to be accretive to SAP’s non-IFRS earnings per share in 2013.

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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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Takeaways from Descartes Evolution 2019

Talking Logistics

I remember speaking a few years ago with Art Mesher, Descartes’ CEO from November 2004 through November 2013, and he attributed the turnaround to Descartes’ shift from a “culture of selling” to a “culture of serving.” One of Descartes’ most high-profile acquisitions was its purchase of MacroPoint for $107 million in August 2017.

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ASML considers risks down to ten tiers deep

Supply Chain Movement

Profile of Harold Bol, Director of Supply Chain Planning & Configuration Management, ASML. billion euros, which was almost 12 percent more than in 2013 – and far beyond the wildest dreams of the original 31 employees who started out in a temporary prefabricated building on the former Philips Natlab site in Eindhoven in 1984.