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This Week in Logistics News (September 14-18, 2015)

Talking Logistics

FedEx to Increase Shipping Rates for Express, Ground and Freight Services. The solution “delivers rich cloud-based capabilities centered on key pillars of omni-channel success, [including Trading Partner Community, Commerce Platform, Asset Tracking, Master Data Management, and Inventory and Warehouse Management].

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Top Talking Logistics Posts & Episodes (Q1 2016)

Talking Logistics

Thanks to all of you — our readers, social media followers, and sponsors — we’re having a great year so far (pageviews are up 46 percent this quarter compared to the same period in 2015 and we have almost 75,000 followers on LinkedIn), and we have many more great episodes, posts, and other content planned for the weeks and months ahead.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 11-15, 2016)

Talking Logistics

How long before Amazon announces that it is buying its own 18,000 TEU container ship? Speaking of container ships, there continues to be a lot of confusion and uncertainty surrounding the new SOLAS requirements, which go into effect on July 1, 2016. percent from February 2015). percent in February from January (but was up 1.0

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Three Tough Headlines: What Can We Learn?

Supply Chain Shaman

I worked with consultants defining a business case for cloud-based supply chain solutions and new vendors looking to use artificial intelligence to solve the problems of master data management. Today, on average, there are 10-25 ships sitting on the water waiting to unload. It was not a good week for supply chain leaders.

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Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2016

Talking Logistics

Well, my big audacious prediction for 2015 did not come true. It’s also important to note that shipping and aviation, two industries with significant greenhouse gas emissions, are not included in the COP21 agreement. Insights from Kenco Customer Summit 2015. Aligning Warehouse Labor Management with Omni-Channel Strategy.

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Supply Chain Metrics - Gaining Visibility in a Data-rich World

Logility

In another example, minimizing distribution expense by going with the low cost shipping option, may extend shipment times and negatively impact customer service levels. Seamlessly combining internal and external data into an integrated platform enables the effective support of end-to-end supply chain performance management needs.

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Supply Chain Can Teach Us Much About the Future of Professional  Education

MIT Supply Chain

A good example is the increasing importance of data engineers and data scientists; specialists who hardly featured in operational teams a couple of decades ago. A recent workshop on data management organized by MIT CTL highlighted this challenge.