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What Is Old Is New Again. Maybe, Just Maybe, the Emperor Is Getting Some Clothes.

Supply Chain Shaman

In the height of the e-commerce craze, the marketplace offerings started with a focus on e-procurement. The widely-held view was that the e-procurement market would fuel the next generation of marketplace applications. The rebirth of marketplace offerings is not on the back of e-procurement or ERP. The debates were heated.

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Do No Harm…

Supply Chain Shaman

I have learned that supply chain systems are more complex than I originally thought, and that the relationships between supply chain metrics are nonlinear. Recently, I spoke to a major European retailer that lost 5% of their grocery revenues to Amazon in the first quarter of 2014. Why It Matters.

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AIMMS in 2016: what’s in store for this year

AIMMS

We are witnessing a growing interest in prescriptive analytics across a wide variety of industries. more times the number of AIMMS PRO Platforms in comparison to 2014. Some of the reasons driving PRO adoption among customers include: The ability to make changes to the model centrally and instantly distribute to business users.

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AIMMS in 2016: what’s in store for this year

AIMMS

We are witnessing a growing interest in prescriptive analytics across a wide variety of industries. more times the number of AIMMS PRO Platforms in comparison to 2014. Some of the reasons driving PRO adoption among customers include: The ability to make changes to the model centrally and instantly distribute to business users.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Many metrics can be used to determine the top 3PL warehousing companies, such as company revenue, the number of warehouses, total warehouse square footage , etc. This compilation is based on the most currently available company revenue data (between 2018 and 2020) without factoring in any other metric. Møller Mærsk Group.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2016

Talking Logistics

As history has shown, terrorist attacks (and how the world responds to them) affects oil prices, stock markets, consumer confidence and spending, and trade lanes — and they can trigger new regulations and security measures, which could increase supply chain costs and lead times. Abercrombie & Fitch Inc. and L Brands Inc.’s