Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

More on Maersk’s transition to an end-to-end provider can be found in this 2020 report. On the horizontal carrier integration front, Maersk has doubled down on its extension from ocean consolidation (Hamburg Sud, 2017) to air cargo, increasing Maersk Air by 33% with three leased cargo planes and two new Boeing purchases.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 8, 2017

As reported by the Wall Street Journal : United Parcel Service Inc. The company said on Wednesday “that soaring online purchases have caused delays in its distribution network,” according to Reuters. The post This Week in Logistics News (December 4-8, 2017) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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Arkieva

MARCH 16, 2017

I was excited to visit Disney, but I only have two clear memories: the Mickey ears I purchased and my brother’s trying to order the most expensive item on the menu every time we ate out. As a new addition to Arkieva and the supply chain world, participating at SAPinsider SCM and Logistics 2017 was exciting for me.

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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. Invest in technology and analytics.

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Supply Chain Trend

AUGUST 13, 2020

Third wave supply-chain planning software will play the machine role in the human-machine collaboration, enabling the knowledge worker to manage large amounts of data, use advanced analytics, and automate processes and decisions across the enterprise and the wider value chain. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Supply Chain Matters

MAY 13, 2022

Online commerce platform provider Shopify , often compared to Amazon in the ability to support small and mid-sized businesses create and maintain an online shipping presence, announced thi9s week its intent to acquire end-to-end online logistics San Francisco based fulfillment provider Deliverr for a reported $2.1

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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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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2015

According to a report in Re/code: The trailers won’t be used to deliver packages to customer doors. The four main elements of the ELD Final Rule include: Requiring commercial truck and bus drivers who currently use paper log books to maintain hours-of-service records to adopt ELDs within two years.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Featuring Our 12 Best Procurement Articles! Procurement’s North Star article and permission to publish here provided by Sam Jenks. What exactly are you and your procurement team working towards? What is Procurement’s North Star Metric? The North Star Metric (NSM). Subscribe Here! Email Address.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

As fall becomes winter, supply chain leaders are planning their budgets and building strategies for 2017. With this in mind, in this blog, I make an argument that we, as supply chain leaders, have screwed up direct material procurement. My goal is to have supply chain leaders consider a procurement redesign for 2017.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

APRIL 8, 2014

Industrial Manufacturing. Sourcing & Procurement. Sourcing & Procurement. ProcureEdge – Sourcing & Procurement. Abstract Technologies such as Social networking, mobile, analytics and cloud computing have been shaking the IT industry for past several years. Automotive. Communication Services.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Many of my clients talk about a customer-centric supply chain but rely on useless metrics from an annual survey or a net promoter score. I called the customer service line for the manufacturer and was told that the only thing I could do was call a maintenance specialist. Customer Service Failure. Internet and Cable Issues.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Former McKinsey analyst Markus Zils adds, “The circular economy aims to eradicate waste — not just from manufacturing processes, as lean management aspires to do, but systematically, throughout the life cycles and uses of products and their components. Kadir van Lohuizen ( @mediakadir ) reports, “The world generates at least 3.5

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Shipping approximately 400 million selling units consisting of 700 million manufactured units per year, Carter’s employs about 4,000 employees at its peak. The company leverages globally sourcing strategies to buy products at a lower cost and then deploys some unique process logic to drive mass customization for retailers.

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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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Arkieva

JANUARY 6, 2017

After a couple of quick questions about the product that she had purchased, it was obvious to me that the product itself had the right features. If you are a retailer, manufacturer, or distributor, the day-to-day moves in the Dow neither drive nor necessarily reflect the day-to-day operations of your business. Read More ». Read More ».

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Provenance

AUGUST 13, 2018

A report proposing three system solutions that could reshape the industry and set the clean energy technology sector on a path to sustainability. Read the short version of this report on Medium. Chapter 2 of this report outlines some of the barriers observed to play a prohibitive role to transparency for REE mining and processing.

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Freightos

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The free report is available in PDF with supporting spreadsheets and high-resolution infographics here. Other sources reported that DB Schenker was not the only forwarder making this shift. Advantages Beyond Shipment Booking and Execution. Driving the Maersk Shift. A Maersk ocean liner generates some 2 GB a of data per day.

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Zipline Logistics

JANUARY 6, 2020

Loads on the spot market, in which retailers and manufacturers buy trucking capacity as they need it, rather than through a contract, have fallen by a chilling 62.6% (in 2019),” according to an article published by Business Insider. Trucking Insurance Costs on the Rise. That half-year closure figure outpaces the entirety of 2018.

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Supply Chain Trend

DECEMBER 13, 2016

These leaders all have 20+ years S&OP experience and published books, whitepapers and articles in renowned magazines. Over the first few months, I quickly learned that it was much more than supplying reports and data. I have purchased the E-Book myself and truly enjoyed it. . Just keep moving forward.

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Claritum

MARCH 15, 2017

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. It seems the biggest headaches experienced by the many delegates we spoke with were; categorisation of expenditure, capturing requirements efficiently, lack of reporting and overcomplicated platforms. Just two batteries could costs us hundreds (and we make them!).

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Unleashed

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This modern business model functions as the online solution to making retail, manufacturing, wholesale, and service-based sales. Services: Professional services that may be purchased over the internet. This is the most popular eCommerce business model, and most niche product categories fall under the B2C umbrella.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 13, 2017

After decades of jobs moving overseas, the tide has turned in favor of reshoring , reports the Reshoring Initiative in its latest annual report. 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. Supply Chain Control.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

I thought I understood all the major supply chain implications of the pandemic until I began reading Yossi Sheffi’s new book The New (Ab)Normal: Reshaping Business and Supply Chain Strategy beyond Covid-19. The potential supply chain impacts of this conflict dwarf any other supply chain news that might be reported. Oil Prices Jump.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Yet all of the functions that we now associate with Supply Chain have been around for a very long time: Planning, Inventory Management, Logistics, Procurement and Purchasing, Warehousing and many more.”[2] 5] Kate Vitasek, “ Supply Chains And Adjusting To Trump: Think Local And Global ,” Forbes , 20 March 2017. [6]

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Other examples: The United States Postal Service (USPS) published a report in May titled Blockchain Technology: Possibilities for the U.S. Postal Service , with supply chain management as one of the focus areas; in October, as reported by Reuters, “IBM, U.S. What will happen in 2017? Will prices continue to increase in 2017?

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