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Schneider Electric has been working to simplify its supplychain over the last few years. This French public multinational was selected as having the best global supplychain by a leading analyst firm. Schneider Electric’s supplychain operation is of great interest to other practitioners.
We continue our top blog posts of 2014 from our main categories today by focusing on something at Cerasis we are experts in : Logistics. We’ve already listed the top 10 manufacturing blog posts and the top 10 supplychain blog posts last week. Some logistics involves transportation or warehouses or both.
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I’ve made many supplychain and logistics predictions over the years, and have been wrong many times, including this prediction from December 2014: Google will acquire a logistics service provider (3PL) and/or a logisticssoftware vendor.
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Best Pick and Pack Shipping Systems for 2014. Order fulfillment has seen a rise in technology in 2014 and there is now a large offering of advanced products to help make your warehouse function more efficient. With software plugged into your warehouse management system, picking and shipping orders has become a lot more accurate.
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As we head off for the holidays, a quick thank you to all of our readers, followers, and sponsors for another great year of learning and conversation on Talking Logistics. Again, thank you for making this another fun and rewarding year on Talking Logistics. Wearable Devices: The New User Interface for LogisticsSoftware.
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So it gives me great pleasure to say, that with the next pick in the 2014 NBA Draft, the NBA selects Isaiah Austin from Baylor University.”. In other news… SupplyChain Risk Management Now a Priority for Most Businesses ( Accenture ). HighJump Software Releases Next Cloud-Based Solution: HighJump Route Administrator.
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