Talking Logistics

JANUARY 8, 2016

According to the press release: Information presented via [the Supply Chain Information Sharing and Analysis Center] is powered by TransVoyant’s CDI™ Platform. This live and predictive analytics platform filters through news sources (including Lloyd’s Maritime, CNN, and more), blogs, social media (ex.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 14, 2016

August 2016 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). One of my predictions for 2016 was that we would see increased innovation to simplify and expedite trading partner (B2B) connectivity, which is at the heart of what Appterra does, a company Descartes acquired this week for $5.8 Looming digital regulation has U.S. million. “By

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Supply Chain Movement

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

The Global Procurement & Supply Chain Management for Oil And Gas Industry 2016. Date: 11-12 April, 2016. Venue: Intercontinental Berlin, Germany. Organizer: Magvoy Energy – MagVoyages ltd. Url: [link].

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ToolsGroup

JUNE 7, 2016

Source: Algorithmic Supply Chain Planning: The Future of SCP , Amber Salley, May 2016. The analyst firm says algorithms “are now feasting on the wealth of data becoming available, leveraging the huge computing resources in the cloud and becoming a pivotal source of competitive differentiation.”

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Kinaxis

APRIL 26, 2017

It has leased 20 Boeing 767 aircraft to shuttle goods around the US, and helped ship at least 150 cargo containers from China since October 2016. It’s great to offer same day shipping, but what happens if there’s a catastrophic level disruption at the origin source? Find a way to know sooner and act faster.

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NC State SCRC

AUGUST 6, 2016

This project presents an opportunity to benchmark salaries (base salary, incentive compensation and equity/stock grants, etc. Commodity/Category sourcing profiles within Research and Development (R&D). Develop sourcing strategies for R&D commodity categories (play books). Can’t wait for the gun to go off!

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ToolsGroup

JANUARY 22, 2019

Some processes have the potential and need to be automatically optimized, while others need to be presented to the planner so they can understand the business trade-offs and make the final decision. Source: ToolsGroup. Conscious supply chain planning at the top. Subconscious planning on the bottom.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 11, 2022

You must live in the present.”[1] ”[2] Since we can’t go back and must live in the present, we also must prepare for the future. It also involves weaponizing supply chains — various legislative loopholes in the US still allow states and companies to source supplies such as personal protective equipment from China.”

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Enterra Insights

MAY 18, 2023

In the latest WEF Global Risks Report , the authors note, “Present and future risks can interact with each other to form a ‘polycrisis’ — a cluster of related global risks with compounding effects, such that the overall impact exceeds the sum of each part.”

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The original 2016 driver for this shift seems hard to believe in today’s freight environment: a focus on long-term business viability spurred by ocean freight rates so low that they precipitated the bankruptcy filing by ocean carrier Hanjin. Image via StarAir.dk). Behind the Maersk shift. The difference… and the looming carrier threat.

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Resilinc

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This transformation has triggered a substantial price surge, with nickel prices tripling since 2016 , underscoring supply constraints amid the accelerating adoption of electric cars. Challenges and Opportunities Recent developments in the lithium industry have presented a mix of challenges and opportunities. What is Cobalt?

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 18, 2018

Financial reengineering focuses on the optimization of short-term results that are usually based on a functional analysis of source, make, or deliver. Few consultants understand the interrelationships between source, make and deliver. Recently, I presented at the University of Tennessee Supply Chain Forum. Reflections.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 15, 2015

9:00-11:30 Session 1: Paper presentations and discussion – Inspections, disclosures and social responsibility. Ensuring Corporate Social Responsibility via Vertical Integration and Horizontal Sourcing – Adem Orsdemir, Bin Hu, Vinayak Deshpande. Sunday, February 28, 2016. 11:30-11:45 Break.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Digital can help them use resources in a more environmentally responsible manner, improve their sourcing decisions, and implement circular-economy solutions in the food chain.”[1] Looking forward, precision agriculture presents some of the best opportunities to meeting growing global food demand while minimizing environmental impacts.

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Supply Chain Movement

AUGUST 18, 2016

Date: 19 October, 2016. Global sourcing and sourcing in Central-Eastern Europe (CEE) has long been state of the art for international companies. 3rd CEE Procurement & Supply Forum. Venue: Prague, Czech Republic. Organisation: BME Verband. URL: www.bme.de/en/all-events/cee/. en/all-events/cee/.

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Supply Chain Trend

AUGUST 31, 2023

Decision Quality A decision quality framework is proposed in detail in the book Decision Quality (Spetzler and colleagues, 2016). Based on their combined experience, decision quality experts Spetzler and colleagues (2016) identified five mega biases that are threats to good organizational decision making.

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Unleashed

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The key regulatory standards now at play in the medical device industry include: ISO 13485:2016 – The International Organisation for Standardisation’s requirements for medical device quality management systems. These are medical products that deliberately/fraudulently misrepresent their identity, composition or source.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The respite however, could be short-lived, as a new wave of disruptive technology emerges—one which many believe will spell the end of the warehouse as a significant source of employment and transform it into a centre of wholly automated activity. 2045 Here We Come. Robotic Opportunities for All?

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Once a tainted food source is discovered, it’s important to know where it came from and where else it might be found. 4] Carolyn Heneghan, “ More than money: What a recall truly costs ,” Food Dive, 26 September 2016. [5] As the late professional golfer Chi Chi Rodriguez once stated, “Red meat is not bad for you.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 12, 2017

Much of that growth has been fueled by acquisitions, including four acquisitions in 2016, with more certainly to come this year. The R&D team delivered about 350 product releases in 2016. Ports, Airports and Global Infrastructure Group, also presented at the Executive Forum.

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Arkieva

JANUARY 6, 2017

Just in case you missed some of our supply chain strategy posts , we’ve compiled a list of our popular supply chain posts from 2016 below (ranked based on shares and views). Here is a list of the Top 20 Supply Chain Strategy Blog Posts from 2016. Supply Chain Complexity 1 – Plan/Source/Make/Deliver/…. Please subscribe here.

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ivalua

MARCH 17, 2021

Typically they’re presented with three options; increase taxes, increase fees, or pursue federal resources. The Grants Oversight and New Efficiency (GONE) Act of 2016 – The goal of this law is to provide visibility into aged grants and enable efficient closeout of expired grants.

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ivalua

MAY 30, 2023

Launched by the Saudi government in 2016, the Saudi Vision 2030 Program is a sweeping reform initiative with the aim of diversifying the country’s economy and reducing its reliance on oil production. However, implementing category strategies for successful sourcing and supplier management can be challenging without the right tools.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 27, 2018

Seppala ( @timseppala ) explains, “[A crypto-anchor] works as a data source for blockchain. This could help situations like oil spills and runoff from land-based pollution sources, and to predict threats such as red tide.” You might remember back in 2016 when Microsoft launched Tay, an AI chatterbot.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Here’s what ATA Chief Economist Bob Costello had to say: “Clearly, 2016 started soft for truck tonnage. There was a deceleration in freight volumes during the second half of 2015 which continued into the first month of 2016. We do not expect capacity to tighten in 2016 unless the economy regains steam.

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EcoVadis

MARCH 3, 2016

This pushes procurement to source in lower cost ways, looking around the globe for new suppliers, which as a consequence can often introduce new CSR and related risks. Several CPOs (more than three present at the conference) came recently (within the past 5 years) from other industries. Leadership on the move… Up!

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 16, 2018

In 2016, the value of goods traded between the two countries topped $525 billion, making Mexico the third largest trading partner of the U.S. The document is presented to the customs agent at the border as proof that the goods and/or materials originated in the United States, Mexico, or Canada. Likewise, a U.S.

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E2open

MARCH 17, 2017

In late 2016, E2open acquired Orchestro, a leading provider of demand signal repository (DSR) technology and preemptive analytics for retail and omnichannel fulfillment. What to Look For in a DSR platform: Scales and supports cross-retailer and multi-data source visibility for the enterprise vs. siloed sales team point solutions.

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E2open

MARCH 17, 2017

In late 2016, E2open acquired Orchestro, a leading provider of demand signal repository (DSR) technology and preemptive analytics for retail and omnichannel fulfillment. What to Look For in a DSR platform: Scales and supports cross-retailer and multi-data source visibility for the enterprise vs. siloed sales team point solutions.

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AIMMS

JUNE 23, 2016

My takeaways from Gartner’s Supply Chain Executive Conference 2016. Gartner’s Noha Tohamy offered a great presentation about this at their recent Supply Chain Executive Conference. Apps have come to define the way we work and live in many ways. But what exactly is a Supply Chain Analytics app? Oil blending is not easy.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 13, 2016

And I remember attending many other conferences and presentations around that time, and the message from consultants, analysts, and academics were all the same: “Don’t view logistics as a cost center, view it as a competitive weapon.”. Your supply chain strategy in effect becomes your business plan.”.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

In fact, it made me think of a specific chapter I read from Magnus Carlsson’s Strategic Sourcing and Category Management: Lessons Learned at IKEA. In 1995 IKEA faced an organizational shift in purchasing and sourcing methodology. Now bear with me here…. They wanted to expand their production, and become more competitive globally.

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SCMDOJO

JULY 26, 2023

Viewers gain understanding of the art of negotiation and its function in resolving complicated problems while maintaining lives and relationships through the hard negotiations presented in the film. Learners will discover effective sourcing techniques and how to navigate challenging situations to achieve successful outcomes.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

When filing a lawsuit for medical device liability due to defects, the lawyer only has to prove that the defect was present at the time of immediately after the medical device or tool was manufactured. The 2016 Rule was for class II medical devices. The 2014 Rule was for class III devices.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

She explains, “It is worth noting that the processes of the last decade were vertical supporting the strong silos of make, source and deliver. ”[4] Like Sullivan, McLagan and Cecere were writing half a dozen years ago; yet, challenges presented by siloed data and information remain. . Silos and Omnichannel Operations.

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NC State SCRC

MARCH 25, 2016

But what happens when information is presented by human and automated sources? And what happens if those information sources conflict? In a series of tests with undergraduate students, the students were presented with the following scenaraio: “You will be performing as the leader of a vehicle convoy. Boettcher, Roger C.

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SupplyShift

JUNE 2, 2023

Recycling rates did improve slightly from 63% to 64% but have been stagnant since 2016, underscoring the pressing need for more effective packaging waste management solutions. Collaborate with your suppliers to initiate necessary changes, such as minimizing packaging, sourcing alternative materials, or investing in recycling initiatives.

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