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How the Suez Canal blockage proves technology has the power to transform the shipping industry

Gravity Supply Chain

These new routes can add around 3,500 nautical miles and between five and 12 extra days to their journey, along with security issues for vessels passing through the Port of Aden or The Gulf of Guinea, both well-known for their risk of piracy. ” Gravity’s shipment tracking technology helps mitigate risks.

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The IoT Reality Check

C3 Solutions

It's not the retailers aren't interested; in fact, they strongly believe that IoT will have a dramatic effect on business in the next three years , and 72 percent in a recent North American study said they were interested in IoT based automation, sensors and analytics. Where's the ROI?

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Smart Cities Should Focus on Helping People

Enterra Insights

However, when cities view themselves as “the world’s best laboratories for solutions,” citizens can feel like they are guinea pigs. That means doing more with less should be welcomed by both citizens and those who govern them. Instead of being the subjects of experimentation, citizens need to be treated as lab partners.

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Smart Cities Should Focus on Helping People

Enterra Insights

However, when cities view themselves as “the world’s best laboratories for solutions,” citizens can feel like they are guinea pigs. That means doing more with less should be welcomed by both citizens and those who govern them. Instead of being the subjects of experimentation, citizens need to be treated as lab partners.

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A Reflection on Supply Chain Digitization Trends in the Metal Industry

o9 Solutions

There is not a single day without the metals industry making the headlines: from the Guinea coup to price volatility, to the semiconductor crisis impacting the automotive industry and consequently reducing the demand for metal manufacturers. Moreover, modern supply chain planning solutions like o9’s can ingest external data in real-time (e.g.,

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Rethinking your optimum

Supply Chain Movement

Advanced analytics and optimization technology is the game-changing advantage that will push you past the competition – giving your business more agility, higher accuracy and sharper insights to maximize your revenue. Equatorial Guinea. Guinea-bissau. Papua New Guinea. El Salvador. Falkland Islands (Malvinas). Guadeloupe.

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Download now: 3PL Subway Map Europe 2016

Supply Chain Movement

Equatorial Guinea. Guinea-bissau. Papua New Guinea. 21% of respondent shippers expected their LSP to be able to provide expertise and services in the area of predictive analytics in the future, with a further 15% expecting their LSP to already have expertise in this area and to provide services in the near future.

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