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This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech June 28 2022

Supply Chain Matters

indicate that both are building a data platform that aims to predict shipping delays and prescribe alternative plans for their customers. The new supply-chain intelligence platform, termed FourKites X, aims to combine data from FedEx’s network of more than 16.5 million daily shipments.

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History and Evolution of Supply Chain and Logistics

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Also, traditional logistics focuses its attention on activities such as procurement , distribution, maintenance, and inventory management. The entire business cycle of an industrial company (sales forecast, supply, production, storage, shipping, after-sales service, etc.) New Jersey: John Willey & Sons Inc.

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I Will Be Wrong Again: Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2017

Talking Logistics

planes and ships ); Iran and North Korea and their nuclear ambitions; ISIS exporting its brand of terrorism around the world; and China building islands in the South China Sea (and reportedly putting weapons on them ). Cyber risk and security is getting more attention from the ocean shipping community too.