Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

When you can barely see beyond the bow of the ship, when extreme wind and waves threaten to throw you off course – or worse, sink you – it’s understandable that long-term thinking can get chucked overboard like so much extra ballast. I can only imagine what it must be like to be at sea during a major storm.

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The Logistics of Logistics

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Tim Higham and Joe Lynch discuss the free TMS, which is of course AscendTMS. The 3PL was sold in 2014. Key Takeaways: The Free TMS Free and open-source: AscendTMS is a free and open-source transportation management system (TMS). AscendTMS).

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2018

The field of supply chain management–combining source, make and deliver–into a common process started in 1982. The source of the data is public reporting of balance sheet information. As a result, both have gone through major restructuring efforts over the course of the last five years. I was wrong. My Point of View?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 9, 2016

In 2014 Thoma Bravo acquired GHX, a Supply Chain Operating Network for healthcare. In 2014 OpenText acquired GXS. Over the course of the last decade the remaining solutions struggled. The Elemica announcement contained the obligatory positive quotes and promises to customers. Is the announcement good for the industry?

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MIT Supply Chain

APRIL 16, 2021

As the program grows and matures, this infrastructure underpins the growth of participant communities both within and outside the course programs. including some 40,000 who have paid to verify their identities and earn certificates upon passing the courses?—?have have enrolled in the program.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 14, 2013

Over the course of a year, we analyzed a decade of financial data to gain an understanding of how companies and industry sectors are balancing growth, profitability, cycles and complexity. Industries that have formed cross-functional leadership teams combining source, make and deliver together have made the fastest progress.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 12, 2015

Unless the source of natural gas dries up, which is not likely for many years to come, the price of gas is likely to remain low for the foreseeable future. The data published by MAPI in December 2014 shows that industrial production increased at an annual rate of 3.9% in the third quarter of 2014 and is expected to grow by 3.5%

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

According to sources, Stevedores are demanding advance payment in cash. However, a 2014 report by University of Tennessee on managing risk in global supply chains points out that 90% of the firms surveyed do not quantify risk when outsourcing production! Of course, this will be no guarantee that you will eliminate risk.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 2, 2016

As first reported by Fairfax Media , a factory in North Korea has been making high-priced surf and snow gear for Australian surfwear company Rip Curl since at least 2014, with the garments labeled “Made in China.” It’s very likely that North Koreans are producing garments for other brands too, either in the country or as slave labor in China.

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NC State SCRC

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

defense firms tend to follow a traditional “white box” sourcing approach, as shown in this figure. Much of the sourcing behavior involved in standard defense industry practices is tied to establishing “price reasonableness” in accordance with FAR 15.403 (FAR, 2005).

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 7, 2020

Of course, it is helpful to have some statistics on hand to validate the statement above. According to a survey by Deloitte from 2014, 79 % of companies with high-performing supply chains achieve revenue growth superior to the average within their industries. In 2014, a survey by Tompkins Consortium delivered a shocking revelation.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In 2014, while sipping on an early morning coffee, Maddy called to ask me a question. There is no technology solution that stretches across industries to automate the processes of source, make and deliver. Ethical Sourcing. These are all issues in ethical sourcing initiatives. I remember the call like it was yesterday.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 26, 2015

The WSJ article and other sources, such as this Khan Academy video series , explain how bitcoin works, so I won’t go into it here. Source: [link]. But I read an article in this weekend’s Wall Street Journal – The Revolutionary Power of Digital Currency by Michael J.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 24, 2015

From the person who sources the original wood from a tree to the company that delivers the finished desk to the store: they all need to effectively fit under the supply chain management umbrella. Of course the government will be promoting the message that it's best to keep jobs within our borders, there's no surprise there.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 27, 2015

Over the course of the last six years, in the Consumer Products Industry, based on Rob’s study, the number of items has proliferated by 30%. Data sourced from the Terra Technology 2014 Benchmarking Study. This is his fifth year of studying demand processes. Unfortunately, today, most companies are not working on either.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

The project includes research into supply chain issues related to such large-scale local food sourcing and distribution, plus outreach and at least one new academic course designed to help prepare NC State students for positions as buyers for sustainable agricultural products or other supply chain roles.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Unless you’re talking about ice dams, of course, and how water is dripping into your house, which is what I’m dealing with at the moment. December 2014 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Transportation Department pushes tough oil train standards – sources (Reuters). million, respectively, for the full year 2014.

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RFgen

APRIL 6, 2016

A report created by the Material Handling Industry trade group concluded supply chains will need to hire 270,000 employees per year between 2014 and 2018, according to Fortune. Companies can offer their own Internet course to bring potential hires up to speed or to give online audiences a taste of what positions will entail.

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RFgen

APRIL 6, 2016

A report created by the Material Handling Industry trade group concluded supply chains will need to hire 270,000 employees per year between 2014 and 2018, according to Fortune. Companies can offer their own Internet course to bring potential hires up to speed or to give online audiences a taste of what positions will entail.

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EcoVadis

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Global Sourcing Director – Methods, Tools & Responsible Sourcing (Bel Group). She is the Global Sourcing Director – Methods, Tools & Responsible Sourcing, and she has 10 years of experience in Responsible Purchasing. Training: developing and updating an e-learning course on Responsible Purchasing.

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Kinaxis

JANUARY 4, 2016

In 2014, three of the top five biggest supply chain disruptions were related to natural disasters. Supply chain managers need to have backup routes and options available and at the ready, and need to be able to quickly and effectively run scenario simulations to determine which course of action will allow for the smallest overall impact.

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Kinaxis

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Big business are jumping on the bandwagon too – utilizing collaborative distribution, reverse logistics and cooperative sourcing to lower costs, improve efficiency and better optimize their supply chain. And of course, we’ll need those delivered same-day. Think Uber , Airbnb , and other peer-to-peer lending services. Not an easy task.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 13, 2014

The second company reads market data through syndicated sources. The evolution of big data techniques can allow us to sense changes in these streams quickly and change course. Join us in our research study on Big Data and join us at our Global Summit in Scottsdale, AZ on September 10-11, 2014. I believe that data matters.

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TMC

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

How can shippers navigate a course through these unpredictable times? Although container shipping is in dire straits with several other lines at risk of failure or in the throes of restructurings, it is by no means the only source of unpredictability in freight markets. Consider, for example, the Panama Canal puzzle.

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KEPLER Consulting

MARCH 25, 2018

M and € 125 M) published in 2014, showed that 35% of Mittelstand companies thought that digitization was not very relevant compared to their value chain and another 14%, that it played a weak role. Of course, it is the connection, the availability and the processing of the data that will make the difference in the future. Industry 3.X

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Source: Dictionary.com. The journey began with a one size fits all approach in 2008, and the policies evolved over the course of the last seven years. Orbit Chart for SanDisk for 2006-2014. Platitude: a flat, dull, or trite remark, especially one uttered as if it were fresh or profound.

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Supply Chain Movement

JUNE 11, 2014

I split this off from global sourcing because we had plenty of buyers but not enough planning and logistics so service and documentation was failing. Their mission is to work with our many global buyers, collectively known as Risk Management and Sourcing (RMS), to streamline the buying, planning and logistics.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

What we found during the course of our research was a highly motivated and engaged set of stakeholders from both the private and public sectors, who believe in the vision of a growing biobased economy. In fact, speakers at the December 2014 BIO conference noted that the level of VC funding was at a 4-year low!

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 4, 2016

Of course, there are other factors affecting the American push towards reshoring and nearshoring. These recall counts point to sizeable growth over the past decade in the recall notices of Chinese-made consumer goods from 58 in 2002 to 153 in 2014. manufacturers' decisions to reassess where they are producing or sourcing.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 20, 2015

New products are often introduced in the market and are a source of competitive advantage in industries such as automotive and consumer electronics. This, of course, has become costly with globalization, unless multiple suppliers have been strategically chosen within close proximity. This can be done in various ways.

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GlobalTranz

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The total number of licensed freight brokers between January 2014 and September 2016 has risen from 13,565 to 16,932. Of course, one possible and straightforward explanation is that those are just the numbers of regular turnover within the freight broker industry. That's a total increase of 3,367 active brokers.

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RFgen

AUGUST 14, 2017

In 2014, Massachusetts resident Pierre Picone pleaded guilty to selling counterfeit integrated circuits (IC) to the U.S. Navy over the course of 5 years. Based on its findings, the SASC formed eight conclusions, including: Most counterfeit electronic parts in the defense supply chain are sourced from China.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

High-velocity or streaming data requires different architectures built on non-relational, cloud-based architectures using open source tools like Apache Spark. Chart the course of the team by hosting a workshop where you review the past year and brainstorm/outline the problems the team encountered. source Moody’s).

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JULY 26, 2013

Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Supply Chain Planners were involved to correct this situation & issue of Purchase Requisitions missing Source of Supply got addressed. Sourcing,Procurement,Contract & Spend Management (38). January 2014.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2015

How will transportation, inventory, and sourcing policy decisions change in light of this cheap oil environment? Of course, what happens in the U.S. In short, the increased threat of terrorism underscores the importance of taking a smarter approach to supply chain risk management , which was one of my predictions for 2014.

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BlueYonder

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

But in only a few years since then, Google’s Books Library project has digitized and scanned books from many more libraries and sources. ii] https://www.coursera.org/course/ml. In 2002, the University of Michigan gave Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin an estimate of 1,000 years for scanning the library’s seven million volumes.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JUNE 10, 2021

Global Supply Chain & Sourcing Director for ECCO Global Shoe Production & Sourcing. Integration of system, digitisation of the S&OP process and broader sourcing strategies were paramount to success of this role. In 2014, I was appointed Global Supply Chain role with ECCO Shoes and relocated back to Singapore.

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