Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 29, 2016

To gain competitive economies of scale and drive the segmented response, the back office operations–procurement, manufacturing and transportation–are automated and effective. This is the goal of the Network of Networks initiative which we are deeply vested in testing during 2017. Trying to Right a Wrong.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 23, 2020

I am also developing a framework for my new book. Let’s celebrate that over the last two years, there were four significant acquisitions by traditional supply chain planning providers to deepen analytics capabilities: 07/2018 JDA purchases Blue Yonder (Purchase price confidential.). Stay tuned.

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GlobalTranz

DECEMBER 29, 2015

We continue our series on the most read articles from the Cerasis blog for 2015 today by featuring any of the blogs in the transportation management or transportation categories. . We've already listed the top 10 manufacturing articles, the top 10 supply chain articles, and yesterday, the top 10 logistics articles.

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GlobalTranz

JULY 8, 2016

Today, we wrap up our series on the top 5 blogs in our 4 main categories ( Freight , Manufacturing , Logistics , and Supply Chain ). Today's post will cover the top 5 Transportation Management blogs from 2016 so far. Top Transportation Management Blogs from the First Half of 2016 So Far. Get The Full List Here.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Descartes Integrates Transportation Messaging and Customs Filing with SAP®. The company said on Wednesday “that soaring online purchases have caused delays in its distribution network,” according to Reuters. We decided to collaborate with Descartes because of their expertise in multi-modal transportation messaging and customs filing.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Kuebix Announces the First Free Multimodal Transportation Management System (TMS). Ryder Reports Third Quarter 2017 Results. DCLI to Purchase TRAC Intermodal’s Domestic Chassis Fleet. Amazon Launches ‘Business Prime’ to Bring Quick Delivery to Work (Bloomberg). UPS announces U.S. ATA Truck Tonnage Index Fell 0.9% in September.

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

DB Schenker Takes $25 Million Stake in Online Freight Booking Platform uShip (WSJ – sub. Exclusive: Wal-Mart to tear down walls between store, online buying operations – sources (Reuters). Amazon’s delivery drones may drop packages via parachute (CNN).

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 7, 2022

For those unaware of the term, shrink is an accounting term used to describe when a store has fewer items in stock than in its recorded book inventory. The company created Project Gigaton in 2017 to engage suppliers and other stakeholders up and down the supply chain to reduce carbon emissions. Robots are everywhere these days.

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 15, 2024

Services by Amazon Here are some of the key services offered by Amazon: General public: Amazon.com – an e-commerce platform offering a diverse selection of products such as books, electronics, apparel, and groceries. Pharmacy: Amazon Pharmacy – Online service for purchasing prescription medications with home delivery.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 23, 2017

At the same time, technological advances such as the Internet of Things, automated transportation and similar futuristic innovations , have been offering the promise of disruption for the last few years without really delivering, although there is little doubt that they will, maybe in 2017, or maybe later.

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Enterra Insights

MAY 31, 2019

” The quote finds its origins in Sir Francis Bacon’s book Meditationes Sacrae , which was published in 1597. “Facebook was still competing with MySpace for traffic,” he writes, “Amazon was primarily known for selling books, and the iPhone was just released. ”[2] What has changed? “Take a 360

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Source: Laurie Cus. Amazon Buys Thousands of Its Own Truck Trailers as Its Transportation Ambitions Grow (Re/code). October 2015 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). Hundreds of Cafe Bustelo cans washed ashore in Florida this week. China Approves Merger of Cosco, China Shipping (WSJ- sub.

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Supply Chain Trend

AUGUST 13, 2020

IBP can support a company’s vision by positively influencing its values and behaviors, thus actively shaping the company’s culture (Van Hove, 2017). In my benchmark survey (Van Hove, 2017), only 25% of survey participants answered yes to the question ‘ We have a relentless focus on only what is important for long term business objectives ’.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JANUARY 25, 2018

According to FTR Transportation Intelligence , it’s been common to see truckload utilization over 95%. When securing transportation, you’d do best to align your favorable freight attributes with carrier goals. GDP and manufacturing indices continue to show strength in the economy. New trucks entering the market.

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 4, 2016

Second, we just released our second Talking Logistics YOUniversity course, Building a Strong Transportation Management Foundation. billion annually starting 2017, mainly to upgrade its supply chain and technology infrastructure, as it races to reduce stock shortages and pushes for online growth.”

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

As a logistics service provider, focusing on over-the-road surface transportation management solutions via technology and managed transportation services, we find the following information on the history of shipping containers of great significance to the logistics and supply chain community at large. The Early Days: 1956-1960s.

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Freightos

APRIL 24, 2016

US Army uses the “Transporter” container, developed four years earlier for removals, for Korean War supply movements. McLean purchases a steamship and a railroad terminal company. First intermodal cargo transportation (containers are stacked on deck). Export manufacturing starts moving away from ports.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 13, 2022

Founded in 2017, Deliverr supports more than one million orders per month for thousands of merchants across the United States. Supply Chain Matters readers will recall that in April 2021, Panasonic announced that the Japan based manufacturing and services company would purchase the remaining 80 percent of Blue Yonder shares for $5.6

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 6, 2023

Ground transportation’s consolidation process also generates fewer carbon emissions and leaves a smaller environmental footprint than shipping individual items back to retailers. Supply Vision provides modular applications that help LSPs coordinate shipments, from quoting, routing and booking through to final delivery.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 26, 2018

And this global trip isn’t just for sightseeing – leading companies find that a diversified sourcing base and far-flung manufacturing can help cut production costs, increasing the bottom line. However, the biggest pain point for these global supply chains is the one that seems inescapable – transportation costs.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Starbucks redesigned their cups for the Grande product, and the flimsy cups were a source of constant spills and burns. I called the customer service line for the manufacturer and was told that the only thing I could do was call a maintenance specialist. In 2017, with the 360 smart bed launch, the Company rethought bed fulfillment.

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Instead, it continues, to include the entire lifecycle of a product, from sourcing of raw materials, to the return and recycling of the product, and reintroduction of recycled materials into the manufacturing or production process. Lawmakers are placing obligations on manufacturers to own the future of the materials they process.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 21, 2020

This has proved to be a major source of risk. Poor business continuity planning, lack of risk management programs and single source suppliers, have magnified the impact of such risks. A significant paradigm shift in procurement and inventory control is an emerging area of focus.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The GCC chemical industry is second largest manufacturing industry in value add, after refining. 2017 Facts and Figures report by Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association (GPCA), the chemical industry accounts for 3.1 Supporting localisation – To increase resilience, means to decentralise sourcing.

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DELMIA Quintiq

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

One of the main reasons so much waste is generated globally is that 99% of the materials that flow through our manufacturing systems wind up in the trash within six months, according to Paul Hawken’s book, Natural Capitalism. Specifically, what if we could design products that produce less waste during the manufacturing process?

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Provenance

AUGUST 13, 2018

The clean energy technology sector achieved considerable growth with China’s low REE prices and advances in manufacturing technology , growth that some associated with low environmental and social sustainability standards. Nevertheless, over the last few decades the world largely relied on Chinese REE supply.

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6 River Systems

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

With how quickly new technology, tips and warehouse management techniques are emerging, wouldn’t it be nice to take a page from someone else’s book? In addition to cutting the need for outsourced manufacturing, this move could give the company a leg up on the competition by making it possible to get products in the hands of consumers faster.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

JDA Powers the Always-on Supply Chain with Latest JDA Manufacturing Planning Release. Descartes Reports Fiscal 2017 Second Quarter Results. According to the press release: The new Matternet M2 drone is completely autonomous [and] can transport up to 2 kilograms (4.4 DOT pushing slower truck speed limits (The Hill).

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QAD

JUNE 11, 2019

On 29 March 2017, the UK served their withdrawal notice under Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union. Customs authorities must accept the declaration and assign a unique identifier to your shipment before it can be transported. Should a hard Brexit occur, the UK will publish its own tariff book and classification codes.

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Freightera

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

trillion in 2017 to $16.9 trillion USD in 2025, with transportation accounting for a majority of the spending at about 70 percent, or $11.8 percent of $715 billion per year of these transactions were made via automated platforms in 2017. Over 9,000 manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers and retailers in the U.S.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

He is an industrial engineer with a diploma in transportation and logistics from the University of Applied Sciences in Bremerhaven. Value, i.e. Price to Tangible Book Value (PTBV). For example, this included transport management, export management, as well as customs and foreign trade. Performance.

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 6, 2020

But much in the same way shippers had transportation difficulties in 2018, the past year was not easy on the other side of the industry — carriers. Industry incumbents like Celadon , New England Motor Freight , Falcon Transport, and HVH Transportation all shut down, some abruptly, after supply-side conditions did not improve.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The following is a 5,000 word exploration of Maersk’s strategic shift to end-to-end logistics services, based on open sources. Maersk would split into two divisions – a Transport & Logistics division, and an energy division. Other sources reported that DB Schenker was not the only forwarder making this shift.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

In fact, some huge "Futurists" like Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, as well as Brett King are currently writing books on the matter ( Beyond Mobile: Life after Smartphones and Augmented - Life in the Smart Line respectively). By 2017, augmented reality is estimated to have a value of just over $6 billion. AR is not without its faults.

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Freightera

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

7, 2017 – Just in time for the busy fall shipping season, the Canadian startup serving businesses with instant freight quotes and online bookings unveiled its break-through redesign. The new site for the first time offers quotes and booking on mobile devices. SOURCE Freightera. VANCOUVER, British Columbia , Sept.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 13, 2017

added 77,000 jobs in 2016, with an additional 13,000 reported for the previous six years, for a total of 338,000 manufacturing jobs reshored since 2010. products to support the Return One Million Jobs initiative to bring one million manufacturing jobs back to America. And how does this benefit manufacturers in the retail industry ?

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AB&R

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

But, before you close the books in 2018, there’s a significant tax incentive available to your company that you may not be aware of. In addition, the 2018 deduction limit is $1,000,000, an increase from $500,000 in 2017. Section 179 allows you to purchase or lease your equipment. What is Section 179?

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