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

Logistics Viewpoints

The success of a company has nothing to do with its form, whether as solely online retailer, a startup or a company evolving from brick and mortar retail. Last but not least, the largest retailer in the world is Walmart. Such a partner should also be independent enough to be able to integrate different manufacturers.

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Global Manufacturing Activity Levels Continue to Stabilize in March and Q1-2023

Supply Chain Matters

Global Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. Morgan Manufacturing PMI® , compiled by S&P Global in association with ISM and IFPSM , provided a banner headline of global manufacturing output showing signs of stabilizing at the conclusion of Q1. That stated, the reported 49.6

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o9 Solutions and Genpact Partner to Digitally Transform Supply Chain of Eckes-Granini

o9 Solutions

This transformation initiative combines Genpact’s decades of expertise in retail and consumer goods, supply chain optimization, and digitally enabled operations with o9’s Digital Brain platform , which is powered by o9’s proprietary Enterprise Knowledge Graph (EKG) technology for end-to-end supply chain and scenario planning.

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

Talking Logistics

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 The functionality accounts for all applicable national tolls in France, Germany, Austria and Slovakia.

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GrandVision: “We are changing completely as we become demand driven”

Supply Chain Movement

the world’s largest network of optical retail stores is far along the path from historically being supplier-led to having a strong demand driven supply chain. After that it quickly went on to buy many other optical retailers including the French based, multinational GrandVision SA in 2005. Grandvision has grand plans.

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

Talking Logistics

Robinson Opens Austria Office. Here are some excerpts: “As the retail market shifts to a direct-to-consumer model, more and more companies are leveraging UPS solutions,” said Scott Davis, UPS chairman and CEO. Trucking Leaders React to the State of the Union. YRC Worldwide Teamster Employees Ratify Contract.

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Who said supply chains are boring?: AMR's Top 25 Highs and Lows

Supply Chains Rock

One company I am glad to not see in the list this year is Zara, the Spanish clothing retailer. I still have bitter memories of all the T-Mobile shops in Austria running out of iPhones on the launch day. Manufacturing Central. Apple continues to hold the #1 spot. I think in coming year SCM industry will grow a lot. SCM Lowdown.