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This Week in Logistics News (April15 – 20)

Logistics Viewpoints

Evans Chebet of Kenya won the men’s division with a time of 2:05:54, for an average pace of 4.8 Helen Obiri of Kenya won the women’s division with a time of 2:21:38. The 127th running of the Boston Marathon took place on Monday. An estimated 30,000 athletes from over 100 countries participated. minutes per mile.

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Out of Africa

Supply Chain Shaman

One of my favorite presentations at the event was by Francis Marabula, Executive head of Supply Chain, Safaricom, Kenya. He spoke of M-Pesa and the evolution of new models for mobile commerce in Kenya. The M-Pesa mobile application now represents 30% of GDP in Kenya with 60,000 outlets. What do I mean by The Internet of Things?

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The Need For Supply Chain Innovation: Why You Should Watch These Four Trends ?

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Data received through a broad range of feeds computed with the help of powerful analytical tools and recommendation engines is a prerequisite to manage large-scale supply networks in a disrupted and volatile environment. It is that data-driven company which has the best chances to weather the increasingly violent “storms”.

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Podcast: Rob O’Byrne on Digital Transformation, Sustainability, and Diversification in Sourcing

Requis

It comes down to understanding of technologies, systems, and analytics. People still need to know the basics, but the big change is in the analytics area. We have a couple of people in our business who are amazing at building online analytics tools to analyze inventory, provide benchmarking, and all sorts of diagnostic tools.

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In the crosshairs: Real-time logistics visibility

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

FourKites or Shippeo), offering delivering visibility that is “good enough” or “superior” compared to the status quo and business intelligence (BI) / predictive analytics. a) covering more modes of transport and use cases, b) increasing the geographical footprint, and c) enhancing analytics capabilities.

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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. Rethink your optimum: Prepare your supply chain for the challenges of 2017 and beyond. Holy See (Vatican City State).

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Strategic moves among logistics providers

Supply Chain Movement

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. Holy See (Vatican City State). Iran, Islamic Republic of. Isle of Man.