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This Week in Logistics News (November 17-21, 2014)

Talking Logistics

Menlo Logistics Keen to Build on 2014 Growth in South Asia. The robots keep coming — that was one of my predictions heading into 2014 (and the year before that too). The post This Week in Logistics News (November 17-21, 2014) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. A New Traffic Jam Hits L.A.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 7-11, 2014)

Talking Logistics

May 2014 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Cass Freight Index June 2014. The bottom line: For the 11th time in 5 years, Congress is kicking the can yet again on coming up with a long-term funding solution until after the November 2014 elections. Turnover at For-Hire Carriers Largely Unchanged During the First Quarter.

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Amazon vs. Alibaba: A Battle for Southeast Asia

Elementum

Later this year Amazon proceeded to invest US $3B in expanding their ecommerce reach in India , in addition to a previous $2B in 2014. Now, Amazon is further expanding their reach, announcing their plans to enter Southeast Asia with a launch in Singapore in the first quarter of 2017.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 27-31, 2014)

Talking Logistics

Now it’s 2014. President Obama also referenced global trade in his speech: Let’s do more to help the entrepreneurs and small business owners who create most new jobs in America…And when 98 percent of our exporters are small businesses, new trade partnerships with Europe and the Asia Pacific will help them create more jobs.

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Ocean Risk Management part 2: Navigating Global Shipping Alliance

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The alliance was formed in 2014 and covers major shipping routes between Asia, Europe, and North America. The alliance covers shipping routes between Asia, Europe, and North America, as well as routes within Asia. The alliance was formed in 2017 and covers major shipping routes between Asia, Europe, and North America.

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The Journey to End-to-End (E2E) Supply Chain Visibility Is Ongoing

Logistics Viewpoints

Contrast that with Southeast Asia, where we have to fill the gap with cell phone triangulation. Our systems have to be able to deal with that complexity in such a way that every user, whether they are managing a production facility in Asia, or optimizing inventory out of headquarters, gets value.

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Apple & Foxconn: Financialization across the Pacific

SCM Research

2014): Financialization across the Pacific: Manufacturing Cost Ratios, Supply Chains and Power. It is always inspirational to find articles that, at first glance, fall out of our discipline, but, at second glance, change the way we think about supply chain phenomena. One of these articles is Froud et al. Leaver, A., & William, K.

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