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The New Significance of a Logistics Strategy: Role, Success factors, and Integration

Logistics Viewpoints

Logistics strategy as an enabler of new business models. They have changed the way they see logistics, and no longer view it as just a support process in their organization. A logistics strategy provides the competitive edge. A logistics strategy provides the competitive edge. Design of the logistics network.

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Elon Musk Ensures that Product Development is Not Siloed

Logistics Viewpoints

The discipline has done a good job of driving collaboration between sales and marketing and manufacturing, procurement, and logistics. I attended the SAP Spend Connect Live conference in Vienna, Austria a couple weeks ago. He said to the head of production design at SpaceX, for example, “you are responsible for the production process.

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Shipping Container Shortage–Another Bullwhip Example

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Chinese tech giant Alibaba’s logistic arm Cainiao launched a container booking service last week in response to the global shortage. and Europe have surged 300%, Mark Yeager, chief executive officer of Redwood Logistics, told CNBC. For the route from Asia to the West Coast of the U.S., rates are up 145% year over year.

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COP26: 5Zs that changed the world

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

In respect to logistics and transport something remarkable happened at COP26. The initiatives launched at COP26 will significantly reshape the transport and logistics ecosystem, its fleets, its infrastructure and its practices. COP26 has received more attention than previous summits.

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Digital logistics: how manufacturing companies can profit

DELMIA Quintiq

Digital logistics – success through networking. Logistics and IT are growing even more closely together. 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. Transport & Logistics'

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This Week in Logistics News (November 18-22, 2013)

Talking Logistics

In this week’s news… XPO Logistics Acquires Optima Service Solutions. In 3PL news, XPO Logistics announced that it has acquired Optima Service Solutions, LLC, “a leading non-asset provider of last-mile logistics services for major retailers and manufacturers in the United States” for $26.6 This week, for example, C.H.

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

Talking Logistics

Robinson Opens Austria Office. Ratings for President Obama’s “State of the Union” address were the lowest since 2000 , but if you tuned in, he raised a couple of points related to supply chain and logistics. In my opinion, this is another example of where a Supply Chain Operating Network would offer a better solution.