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This Week in Logistics News (July 3-7, 2017)

Talking Logistics

In their June 2005 paper titled, “ The Effect of Supply Chain Disruptions on Long-term Shareholder Value, Profitability, and Share Price Volatility ,” Kevin Hendricks and Vinod Singhal report the following findings from their research: Disruptions have a negative across the board effect on stock price, profitability, and share price volatility.

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Logistyx Technologies Talks Parcel Shipping, Holidays, and Returns

Logistics Viewpoints

The companies that had a program to deal with supply chain disruption were in much better shape than those that didn’t. The news is reporting that supply chains are going to be disrupted this holiday season, so more and more consumers are starting early. Are charges known at time of purchase?

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This Week in Logistics News (February 19 – 25)

Logistics Viewpoints

The potential supply chain impacts of this conflict dwarf any other supply chain news that might be reported. The Potential Impact on the Commodity Supply Chain. Oil, gas, steel and metal products account for other everyday items purchased from the two countries.” Russia Attacks Ukraine.

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The Impending Ocean Carrier War on Last Mile Fulfillment

Freightos

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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Warby Parker vs Luxottica: Supply Chain Disintermediation in the Eyewear Industry

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

Luxottica recently strengthened its position in the industry by vertically integrating with the world’s largest lenses manufacturer, Essilor, in January 2017 [2]. With expected sales of $250 million in 2017, Warby Parker sales are projected to be split 50/50 between online and brick-and-mortar [5]. 4] [link] , accessed July 20, 2017.

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Technology Support in Integrated Business Planning: Automation, Augmentation and Human Centricity

Supply Chain Trend

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.

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All I Want in My Easter Basket is a Supply Chain Planning System of Record

Logility

These can be used to develop risk mitigation plans for potential supply chain disruptions. When a disruption takes place (e.g. Expedited shipping is slashed, manufacturing efficiencies soar and purchasing costs fall.