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July Transportation Market Overview 2021

Freight Plus

Volumes remain high and with import volumes remaining elevated and domestic manufacturing continuing it’s bull run, there’s no foreseeable light at the end of the tunnel in 2021. Uber Freight recognizes the importance of managed transportation. Click the Button above to receive the full transportation market report for July 2021.

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The Rise of China-Africa Trade: Why Transportation and Logistics Should be Front and Center

BlueYonder

President Barack Obama’s trip to Africa in early July had many media outlets lamenting about the U.S. being late in recognizing the trade potential with Africa, and that the States had ceded the trade supremacy to China. Secondly, logistics infrastructure in Africa is terribly inefficient.

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Sustainable Supply Chain Management.

ModusLink Corporation

Sustainable distribution: Distribution of goods usually generates a lot of waste and is can damage the environment, but green distribution consists of green packaging including size, shape, and materials that have an impact on transportation of the goods. Retrieved from Triple EFF. consulting. EM Ojo, C. Corporate news.

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When local problems go global

DELMIA Quintiq

Too often they have implemented MRP and MPS production management systems that come with their ERP but are philosophically rooted in 1980’s planning methodology, when manufacturing was much more regional and computing power was a fraction of what is available today. Flexible inventory buffer windows. Complex resource capability rules.

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Arkieva Customer Spotlight: AkzoNobel Strengthens Position as The Leading Global Supplier in Coil Coatings

Arkieva

Headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Arkieva customer AkzoNobel is a leading global paints, coatings and specialty chemicals manufacturing company. BASF’s Global Industrial Coatings business supplies a range of products for industries including construction, domestic appliances, wind energy and commercial transport.

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How Do You Define a Mature Supply Chain Planning Organization? (Part 1)

Supply Chain Shaman

Manufacturing is designed and planned in isolation. Most often the focus is on transportation or logistics, but does not take into consideration the trade-offs between make, source and deliver. Use of third-party data for transportation lane and drayage times by day/time of week. Manufacturing. Tactical Supply.

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Starbucks Appoints New Supply Chain Chief

RFgen

Investigations showed that one main cause of the loss in revenue was that less than half of deliveries arrived on time, driving up costs, and over 50% of their supply chain budget went to outsourcing delivery to third party transportation services, leading to cost inflation. Plant in Columbia, South Carolina in 2009.