GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

8 Freight Shipping Trends Shippers Must Know for 2017. With the official deadline for implementing electronic logging devices less than one year away, more freight shipping providers will be upgrading technology and systems in 2017, reports Matt Sullivan. Of course, automation begets automation.

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SCM Research

OCTOBER 18, 2022

I am sure that this case can be integrated very well into many undergraduate and postgraduate courses. See also the 2017 and 2018 SCM-related winners. Students will obtain an understanding of the supply chain challenges faced by Apple, in the context of supporting its corporate strategy and growth objectives.”

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 15, 2017

WiseTech Global buys Microlistics for $40m, its ninth acquisition in 2017 (Australian Financial Review). Of course, to have any significant impact in easing margin pressures, “The adoption by consumers is pretty important for those to be successful,” said Lee Klaskow, a Bloomberg Intelligence analyst.

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The Logistics of Logistics

MARCH 1, 2023

Chadd and Co-Founder Nikolai Pereira started AVRL in 2017 and the company has grown so quickly that it is recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in America by Inc. Over the course of every year, we identify 18 companies to work with us to automate their processes.” and automate processes. Copied from AVRL’s website.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 6, 2017

2017 started right where 2016 left off: with plenty of supply chain and logistics news. Of course, Amazon continues to make the headlines. This news underscores another of my predictions for 2017 — that the convergence of commerce and logistics will continue. Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a fun and relaxing holiday.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

So what are the issues on the Spend Aggregation Obstacle Course? © Copyright Mortson Enterprises Inc, 2017. The post Procurement – The Spend Aggregation Obstacle Course! And they often don’t trust that someone can negotiate better than they can even if their spend levels are lower. Everyone is an Expert.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

So what are the issues on the Spend Aggregation Obstacle Course? © Copyright Mortson Enterprises Inc, 2017. The post Procurement: The Spend Aggregation Obstacle Course! And they often don’t trust that someone can negotiate better than they can even if their spend levels are lower. Everyone is an Expert.

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Oracle SCM

JANUARY 13, 2017

As the PLM product marketing director at Oracle, I wanted to extend a warm welcome to all my Agile PLM friends to our annual PLM conference at the Modern Supply Chain Experience, Feb 13-15, 2017, in San Jose, California ! I'll be in San Jose and look forward to seeing you all at Modern Supply Chain Experience 2017!

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Oracle SCM

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Here’s why… To help business leaders like you evaluate new PLM strategies, Oracle invites you to join 500+ other executives, product professionals and PLM technology experts at the conference designed for PLM education and networking – Modern Supply Chain Experience, from February 13-15, 2017 in San Jose, California.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The challenge, of course, is finding the right balance — that is, figuring out how to meet peak demand volumes without building out a network that goes under-utilized the remaining 11 months of the year. The post This Week in Logistics News (December 4-8, 2017) appeared first on Talking Logistics with Adrian Gonzalez.

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Freightos

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The low rates that triggered Hanjin’s bankruptcy in 2017 quickly became a thing of the past, as surging demand, congestion, and a litany of global shipping catastrophes pushed ocean freight rates into the stratosphere. Including, of course by leveraging global freight tech for BCOs. Uncertainty became the byword.

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RFgen

APRIL 18, 2018

The 2017 holiday shopping season left us with plenty to learn moving forward. It’s only April but, if you’re in retail, chances are you’re beginning to unpack the 2017 holiday season and explore what you can improve upon for next year. The 2017 Holiday Season in a Nutshell. billion, which exceeded expectations.

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RFgen

APRIL 18, 2018

The 2017 holiday shopping season left us with plenty to learn moving forward. It’s only April but, if you’re in retail, chances are you’re beginning to unpack the 2017 holiday season and explore what you can improve upon for next year. The 2017 Holiday Season in a Nutshell. billion, which exceeded expectations.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Looking back over the course of 2017, what has surprised you the most? Looking back over the course of 2017, what has surprised you the most? What are the biggest learnings or takeaways you’ve had? What’s holding some companies back from embarking on this transformation journey? What’s […]

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Oracle SCM

JANUARY 10, 2018

Product launches kept the Oracle Internet of Things Apps team very busy in 2017. You can actively monitor your fleet such as vehicle idle time (driver sleeping on the job) or geo-fencing violations (driver deviated from planned course).

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 26, 2022

Of course, but when the wind doesn’t blow, you don’t want to be stalled in the middle of the ocean. The Energy Observer project started in France in 2017 with support from French industries. I don’t mean in a net-zero way (which would rely on some mitigation project to balance the carbon emissions), but truly sailing with NO emissions!

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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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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

From boosting the level of artificial intelligence to promoting better means of mitigating and preventing risks, technology will change how manufacturers grow throughout 2017. The First 5 Manufacturing Tech Trends of 2017. Manufacturers will face many challenges in 2017. Artificial Intelligence Will Grow More Important.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 8, 2024

European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 263, Issue 1, 16 November 2017, Pages 240-246 Donella writes that the way to interact and change a complex system is through twelve leverage points listed in ascending importance below. This is what we will do in our upcoming course on building outside-in planning competencies.

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SCM Research

MARCH 23, 2017

The Case Centre has recently selected the winners of their 2017 Awards and Competitions. This year’s winning case in the Production and Operations Management category is closely related to supply chain management: Zara: The World’s Largest Fashion Retailer , written by Kasra Ferdows, Jose A.D. Machuca & Michael Lewis.

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GlobalTranz

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

2017 will be the year of renewed focus and interest in adopting newer transportation management systems (TMSs) to boost productivity and find the biggest cost savings among shipping transportation providers. However, global use of the TMS is expected to have a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of seven percent between 2017 and 2021.

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ModusLink Corporation

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The introduction of E-Procurement: Price and availability are not the only factors to be considered in a purchasing decision, especially now that a strong supply chain has become an unmissable element for every company in today’s business climate (Namulo, 2017). Namulo, 2017).

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APICS

AUGUST 3, 2018

Earlier this year, Fortune reported that the number of women CEOs of Fortune 500 companies dropped from 32 — an all-time high — in 2017 to 24 in 2018. That’s a 25 percent decrease over the course of only one year. However, something important happened this week.

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GlobalTranz

JANUARY 2, 2018

We spent the last week exploring each category's top 10 most viewed posts over the course of 2017. These will only contain posts written in 2017. There were approximately 220 blog posts in 2017, and over 360,000 page views on those posts alone.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 12, 2017

The worlds of online and offline businesses continue to merge and in 2017, as outlined in this infographic from the CUBE , it’s time that retailers finally embraced it. Find out more about being a retailer in 2017 in the infographic below. Infographic: The Reality of Being a Retailer in 2017.

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ivalua

JUNE 29, 2020

According to OECD and National Health Expenditure data, US healthcare spending per person was approx $10,224 in 2017. Now, of course the systems of healthcare differ but overall the level and growth is certainly a concern. The above is a simplified view, of course. Most other developed countries are around 40-50% less than this.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

COVID of course taught companies the need for agility. In February 2017, Koch Equity Development LLC invested $2.68 Many-to-many can also refer to many participants in a network accessing many, many sources of event data critical to supply chain operations through a public cloud network. Stuff happens. billion in Infor.

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GlobalTranz

MAY 4, 2017

The age of internal IT departments is drawing to a close, and the role of outsourced technologies will have a lasting impact in coming years In fact, more off-site IT investments into such companies will become a standard practice throughout 2017, and you need to know why. Manufacturers Need to Process Higher Volumes of Information.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2018

Here I show orbit chart comparisons at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns for the period of 2006-2017. Pepsico has ceded profitability for inventory turns while Coca-Cola is at the same position in 2017 that the company was in 2006. For this story, I have grouped like competitors together. Not much has changed.

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Talking Logistics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The weather was close to perfect, the course and scenery were beautiful, and the cause was inspirational. FourKites’ Real-time Visibility Platform Now Fully Integrated with Manhattan Associates’ TMS 2017. BTW, it’s not too late to donate — you can still help our team cross the $50K goal line.).

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 28, 2023

Of course, back then they didn’t call it logistics or supply chain management — it was viewed as bartering or trade. 7] Staff, “ The History of the Trade and Barter System ,” The Bottom Line, 1 January 2017. 5] Staff, “ National Logistics Day 2023 ,” Logistics Plus. [6]

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MIT Supply Chain

JUNE 22, 2017

The first-ever cohort in MIT’s inaugural online MicroMasters program — consisting of more than 1,100 learners who completed all five of the online courses in supply chain management — has received its final MicroMasters certificates. The pioneering cohort was honored at an online ceremony on June 20 2017.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

But more blatantly than ever, container liners – and especially Maersk – are on a collision course with the tech companies that provide digital infrastructure for selling goods. It’s rare for ocean liners like Maersk to live in the same category as tech giants like Amazon or Alibaba. Image via StarAir.dk). Behind the Maersk shift.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Of course, all of this is easier said than done, but new challenges tend to require new strategies and new innovation. That all changed with the summer of 2017. While the hurricanes of 2017 were the tipping point that finally drug us into this tight capacity market, they weren’t the sole reason.

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GlobalTranz

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

According to Eric Rice of Supply Chain 24/7, e-commerce growth in 2017 grew faster than it has since 2011. Of course, this action goes back to ensuring cost-savings in traditional logistics, getting products from your actual distribution center to your brick-and-mortar location. E-commerce growth has become part of the record books.

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Enterra Insights

JULY 1, 2019

Of course, it’s not big data that keeps you from being blind and deaf, it’s the analysis of that data. In a 2017 TED talk, mathematician Cathy O’Neil ( @mathbabedotorg ) stated, “Algorithms are opinions embedded in code. You should be ,” The Sunday Guardian , 13 May 2017. [5] Footnotes. [1]

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