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Supply Chain Leadership Driving Industry 4.0 & Resilience During Crisis – LogiSYM July 2020

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

This can be applied to inventory management, fleet and order tracking, ID badging. This helps improve order management and accuracy, shorten estimated transit times (ETAs) and minimise out-of-stock situations. Amazon’s supply chain heavily depends on the outsourcing of its inventory management. Dr. Nicolas Hubbard.

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Is Google the most innovative supply chain company in the world?

Freightos

So when I asked Cathy Roberson, a senior analyst at Transport Intelligence and a tech-enthusiast who is vox supplychainus on Twitter at cmroberson06 , I was not surprised when she sent me back an analysis that seems to match up perfectly with some of Google’s recent projects: Google Glasses, Android and 3D printing. through 2018.

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Podcast: VC Brian Aoaeh on the Future of Supply Chain Investment

Requis

But in 2018 we didn’t succeed in raising our third round of funding, so we disbanded the team. It was done by an academic whose life has been devoted to solving these sorts of problems, and he’s done it for transportation, he’s done it for the navy, he’s done it in spare parts, and almost every industry you can think of.

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26 logistics professionals reveal the biggest trends in logistics technology

6 River Systems

AI will be able to survey an area or room and create an accurate inventory in seconds, including weights and volumes, and determine damage on items. These advancements are accelerating thanks to better tools that were created in 2018. There are hundreds if not thousands of transportation mobile apps available today. marctuinier.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

This compilation is based on the most currently available company revenue data (between 2018 and 2020) without factoring in any other metric. The company has operations in more than 40 countries and specializes in integrating different modes of transport in logistics solutions. Nippon Express owns more than 31.7 Revenue: $14.2

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Supply Chain Management in a VUCA World

Enterra Insights

Back in 2011, supply chain analyst Trevor Miles ( @milesahead ) noted there is a similar sounding word supply chain managers should associate with VUCA. He explains, “I almost feel that we should be shouting ‘Vuka’ which in Xhosa (one of the South Africa languages) means ‘wake up.’ Wake up to the new reality that VUCA is a new norm.”[1]

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Why Blockchain Within The Supply Chain Makes Perfect Sense

GlobalTranz

WHITE PAPER] The Top Supply Chain Trends that Will Impact Supply Chain Management in 2018. Before we get into blockchain’s potential entry points into the supply chain ecosystem, let’s take a look at the two current trends in SCM *(Supply Chain Management): Dynamism SCM has evolved to become a huge, global ecosystem.