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Digital logistics: how manufacturing companies can profit

DELMIA Quintiq

Digitalisation as a central element is decisively influencing the development of logistics and its concepts,” was the conclusion from Roman Stiftner, President of BVL Austria. He used the example of a joint project with a customer, a leading worldwide manufacturer of plastic packaging, to drive his message across. The final outcome.

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This Week in Logistics News (January 27-31, 2014)

Talking Logistics

Robinson Opens Austria Office. Unless, of course, Wal-mart actually enjoys handling paperwork and views it as a core competency, in which case, paper on. Trucking Leaders React to the State of the Union. Reid Deals Body Blow to Obama on Trade ( WSJ – subscription ). YRC Worldwide Teamster Employees Ratify Contract.

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Stepping Forward to Meet Opportunity

BlueYonder

I’m from the UK and have lived here most of my life apart from about a year in Germany and Austria when I was an undergraduate (I studied languages and management). That’s a much longer-term play, of course, but the needle is definitely moving in the right direction. Welcome to Wednesdays for Women! Tell us a little about yourself.

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Eco-friendly Food Packaging: 8 Trends in Food & Bev Explained

Unleashed

73% of consumers say they ‘”definitely or probably” will change their consumption habits to reduce their environmental impact ( Nielsen ), presenting a huge opportunity for food manufacturers. This means they are backed up by a authoritative certification, such as: The European OK Compost Home standard (from TÜV Austria).

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The Evolution of a Supply Chain Planning Support Team

DynaSys

Of course, there is still room for improvement, and we do not want to stop where we are today. We were 3 people supporting them, handling calls, answering questions, fixing bugs, all attached to R&D, in addition to a few additional persons supporting other older software and handling phone calls. QAD acquired DynaSys in 2012.

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The History and State of Vehicle Routing!

Supply Chain Game Changer

We had courses on Linear Programming, Operational Research, Scheduling and Control systems, Stochastic modelling, Mathematical Programming, Simulation, Heuristic modelling, Applied Statistical analysis, and much, much more. In fact our computer programming courses were conducted creating endless stacks of punch cards.

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The Great Maersk Shift

Freightos

The shift to full end-to-end integration, of course, leaves no one else in the middle. The first is size , of course, with Maersk running over 17% of global ocean capacity , but also selling land-services to just under 20% of those same customers. Other sources reported that DB Schenker was not the only forwarder making this shift.