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This Week in Logistics News (November 10-14, 2014)

Talking Logistics

September 2014 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Cass Freight Index Report – October 2014. The company expects to reduce annual costs by between $300m to $400m from 2017 by expanding use of its Orion route-planning software to all its US drivers, from about 40 per cent at present.

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UltraShipTMS Wins a Pair of American Business Awards in 2017

Supply Chain Collaborator

May 11, 2017 – Fair Lawn, NJ – UltraShipTMS was named the winner of a Bronze Stevie Award in the “Best User Interface” category in The 15th Annual American Business Awards today. The publication aggregates content monthly, culled from UltraShipTMS’s popular Supply Chain Collaborator Blog and other industry sources.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 17-21, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Manhattan Associates Reports First Quarter 2017 Performance. Source: Amazon patent. Finally, one of my predictions for 2017 was that we would see a rise in cyber attacks, with supply chain and logistics operations becoming new targets. Logistics Platform Haven Sets Sights on SAP with Launch of Haven TMS. in an email.

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Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2017

Material Handling & Logistics

Our salute to the best advancements in supply chain technology, processes and labor management from 2017. Top 10 Supply Chain Innovations of 2014 : hybrid DCs, 3-D prototypes, location-based inventory system, and more. This is our annual salute to the best in people, processes and technology within the supply chain arena. Media Type.

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Elevating the Heavy Building Materials Supply Chain (Takeaways from Command Alkon ELEVATE 2017 Conference)

Talking Logistics

Last month, I attended and spoke at the Command Alkon ELEVATE 2017 conference , where I learned many things about the Heavy Building Materials (HBM) industry. It acquired FiveCubits , a software-as-a-service provider of fleet management and mobile computing solutions tailored for the HBM industry, back in 2014.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 23-27, 2017)

Talking Logistics

By the way, to put “150 containers since October” into perspective: Walmart imported 775,400 TEUs in 2014, which works out to 2,124 TEUs imported per day.). Moving on to President Trump, in my predictions for 2017 post last month, I wrote the following: Will President Trump kill the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and renegotiate NAFTA?

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The 13 Most Preferred Cryptocurrencies!

Supply Chain Game Changer

The cryptocurrency was created in 2014 by Evan Duffield and named after his son. Ether Classic is a cryptocurrency that started in 2014 as a project by the Ethereum Foundation, which was later forked from the blockchain of Ethereum due to disagreements in its development. For now, only tokens have been issued. Bitcoin Cash.