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This Week in Logistics News (December 7-11, 2015)

Talking Logistics

MercuryGate extends invoicing and document management solution with HubTran integration. October 2015 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). According to a report in Re/code: The trailers won’t be used to deliver packages to customer doors. SMC³ Unveils New Version of BatchMark XL Analysis Tool.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 1 – 7)

Logistics Viewpoints

According to the annual survey released by the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) and Prosper Insights & Analytics, consumers plan to spend a collective $24 billion on Easter this year, up from $20.8 Spending is growing across several categories, and the top Easter items consumers say they are planning to purchase include candy ($3.3

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This Week in Logistics News (March 2-6, 2015)

Talking Logistics

Descartes Reports Fiscal 2015 Fourth Quarter and Annual Financial Results. The post This Week in Logistics News (March 2-6, 2015) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez. Ports Gridlock Reshapes the Supply Chain (WSJ – sub. Brooks Bentz Joins Transplace as President of Consulting Services.

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IKEA’s IWAY Has Lessons For Every Procurement Team!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Check out Procurement Report Card: Most Executives Think Procurement Isn’t Strategic Enough! Looking back on the training process, our research, strategy, implementation and evaluation methods closely mirrored supplier relationship management and procurement management. Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Ethics in Procurement – Simple, but Not Always Easy

Logistics Bureau

If you have not yet tackled the question of ethics in procurement, now is a great time to start. It does not matter whether you are a procurement professional, internal customer, external customer, senior executive, or supplier. Procurement is what sets entire supply chains and their organisations in motion.

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This Week in Logistics News (June 1-5, 2015)

Talking Logistics

Here are some interesting findings: 40% of consumers have purchased from retailers based outside the U.S., with nearly half (49%) reporting they did so to find better prices, and 35% said they wanted items that couldn’t be found in U.S. Finally, UPS and comScore, Inc. released the fourth UPS Pulse of the Online Shopper™ U.S.

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Cross-Border E-Commerce: Growing Fast, But Still a Messy Reality

Talking Logistics

“More than a quarter of all revenue for sellers on Amazon globally was from cross-border transactions in 2017, up more than 50 percent from the year prior, Amazon Vice President Eric Broussard said in an interview,” as reported by Jeffrey Dastin in a recent article in Reuters. Your order from the U.S.