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This Week in Logistics News (September 15-19, 2014)

Talking Logistics

Thirteen Years After 9/11, A New Attempt To Screen 100 Percent of Cargo Containers ( Roll Call ). Last year at the Ariba LIVE 2013 conference, I led a discussion session titled “At the Intersection of Social and Business Networks” with about fifty senior executives in supply chain and procurement. FedEx to Increase Shipping Rates.

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Better Inventory Management Requires International Suppliers To Step Up to Digital Transformation and Collaboration

Logistics Viewpoints

Just last year many were chartering their own cargo ships to get all these goods to their destinations.) Inbound/procurement teams could view SKUs at facilities with low days of supply, and drill into orders in the yard with low SKUs. All aboard. International suppliers, we are talking to you.)

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Multimodal 2015 – Advanced Supply Chain Management and Logistics for Cargo Owners

Supply Chain Movement

Date: 28 – 30 April 2014. In 2014, more than 7,000 high-calibre visitors attended. Shipping Managers, Procurement Directors, Distribution Managers, Traffic Managers, Logistics Directors, SCM Directors, Sourcing Managers, Transport Managers and Supply Chain Directors from: Major High Street and Online Retailers. Multimodal 2015.

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Pricing Power in a Cargo Bazaar: Does Revenue Management Add Value?

BlueYonder

Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) were the center of the cargo transportation universe and the shippers were fully reliant on them for all their logistics needs. A true cargo pricing bazaar was the result. These conditions create a perfect storm for the carriers to break out of the cargo pricing bazaar. What do you think?

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Can B2B e-commerce solve supply chain issues?

Cathy Roberson

The overall expansion was supported by the sharpest rise in new orders since June 2014. A Middle-East-based B2B online platform, Tradeling, launched last year with an initial investment from Dubai Airport Freezone Authority to help businesses across the Middle East and North Africa to procure goods from around the world.

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Cargo Flight Launches a Vital Link in the Ebola Response Effort

MIT Supply Chain

million, combined with procurement of locally available commodities, will meet two critical needs in the country’s constrained health care system. A major challenge is procuring equipment in large quantities so that the items are standardized. Allen funds this effort, which is part of the broader #TackleEbola initiative.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] AI Technologies: The Role of Humans & The Application in Logistics

GlobalTranz

Google’s 2014 purchase of the British firm Deep Mind for something more than $ 400 million produced a bonanza of publicity earlier this year, when its game playing program whipped a human master of the ancient strategy game Go.