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The Logistics of Fidget Spinners: Amazon vs Alibaba

Freightos

Just this April, Credit Suisse reported that over 8,600 brick-and-mortar stores may shutter their doors in 2017. Digital channels may spell trouble for traditional retailers but it also represents evolution, giving Asian and Indian manufacturers a global reach. All the Q3 2017 logistics technology updates. Take Fidget Spinners.

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Ryder Places First Medium-Duty Electric Vehicle Order with Chanje Energy and Begins to Roll Out Charging Stations

Supply Chain Network

Miami, November 2, 2017 —Ryder System, Inc. The Chanje all-electric large delivery style vans will become available for Ryder ChoiceLease and rental customers in most of the above markets by the end of 2017. Ryder’s stock (NYSE:R) is a component of the Dow Jones Transportation Average and the S&P MidCap 400® index.

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Top 15 Biggest 3PLs in the US - 2017

Material Handling & Logistics

DB Schenker offers land transport, air and ocean freight, as well as comprehensive logistics solutions and global supply chain management services from a single source. Media Caption. CEVA Logistics (The Americas). Privacy Settings. anonymous user. DataTable subpages. Media Image. transactionID. 0ff3bbd4-0831-42fe-a19d-94d4d0a04e28.

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36 innovative companies re-inventing and rethinking supply chain and logistics

6 River Systems

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. Additionally, the company’s manufacturing expertise will enable the reduction of production costs.

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Get Your Supply Chain Back on Track in the Wake of the Hurricanes

Material Handling & Logistics

The 2017 hurricane season wreaked unprecedented damage and destruction on the southern United States and Caribbean, with three catastrophic category 4 and 5 storms occurring within a single month. Companies have an even smaller margin of error than usual entering peak season, due to the ripple effect of the recent hurricanes.

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Supply Chain Predictions for 2018: Real-Time, Innovation, Cognitive, Blockchain, Industry-Academic Partnerships, and Taking a Stand!

NC State SCRC

Here are a few of the big stories that I wrote about this past year that I believe define some of the big shifts in the supply chain ecosystem we witnessed in 2017, and the predictions for 2018. Supplier driven innovation was also a major theme at the Procurement Leaders meeting in Miami this spring.