Talking Logistics

JANUARY 9, 2017

Three years ago, I wrote a popular post highlighting “ 5 New Year’s Resolutions for Supply Chain and Logistics Executives.” Stop viewing technology as a silver bullet. For related commentary, see “ There’s No Silver Bullet for Supply Chain Visibility ” and “ Forget Innovation, Just Execute Better ”.

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BlueYonder

APRIL 16, 2020

To provide insights into the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic and its impact on supply chains around the world, we are delivering a blog series to help anyone looking for support and advice. Our experts, who have spent years in the supply chain industry, share their insights. All non-essential businesses shut down.

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Kinaxis

AUGUST 10, 2015

Through the supply chain. Modern slavery is one of the supply chain industry’s dirty little secrets, but thankfully, governments in the US and UK are attempting to wash it clean, working to put a stop to a problem that should never have been allowed to exist in the first place.

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Supply Chain Movement

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Contents Supply Chain Movement 16 – 2015 Q1. Our supply-chain future: fair sharing – column. 11 | Snapshots Roundtables Supply Chain Movement. In the rapidly changing economy, countless companies need advice on strategy and especially supply chain management. Facts & Figures.

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Logichain Solutions

JULY 30, 2018

With the buzz around blockchain, many important supply chain concepts are being used interchangeably and create confusion. Are companies using blockchain to create visibility in their supply chain, or to trace products downstream and upstream in the supply chain? Supply chain visibility.

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Intelligent Audit

JUNE 30, 2022

Retail supply chain management has always been a complicated and complex process. But in the timeframe between 2020 to 2022, a volatile supply chain market showed the weakness in outdated, legacy supply chain execution built on rigid technology or lacking any accurate data that can improve overall decision-making.

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Logichain Solutions

JULY 30, 2018

With the buzz around blockchain, many important supply chain concepts are being used interchangeably and create confusion. Are companies using blockchain to create visibility in their supply chain, or to trace products downstream and upstream in the supply chain? Supply chain visibility.

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Logichain Solutions

JULY 30, 2018

With the buzz around blockchain, many important supply chain concepts are being used interchangeably and create confusion. Are companies using blockchain to create visibility in their supply chain, or to trace products downstream and upstream in the supply chain?

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Logichain Solutions

JULY 30, 2018

With the buzz around blockchain, many important supply chain concepts are being used interchangeably and create confusion. Are companies using blockchain to create visibility in their supply chain, or to trace products downstream and upstream in the supply chain?

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Logichain Solutions

JULY 30, 2018

With the buzz around blockchain, many important supply chain concepts are being used interchangeably and create confusion. Are companies using blockchain to create visibility in their supply chain, or to trace products downstream and upstream in the supply chain?

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Supply Chain Network

JUNE 30, 2011

If the mantra of the real estate industry is “Location, Location, Location”, the new mantra of supply chain executives is fast becoming “Collaboration, Collaboration, Collaboration”. As a result, more companies are investing heavily in countries like China and Brazil. How technology can help. Let’s look at some examples….

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Requis

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Supply chain and logistics consultant, educator, and podcast host Rob O’Byrne has over 40 years of supply chain experience. He has been helping companies design more profitable supply chains for over 25 years, most of them as founder and CEO of Logistics Bureau. Highlights from the Conversation.

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Jaggaer

APRIL 14, 2020

This in turn could put logistics under pressure at companies like Amazon. This is perhaps an extreme example, but it highlights how COVID-19 is causing severe disruptions to supply chains. The broader issue is that border controls and travel bans limit the ability of supply managers to identify and qualify new suppliers.

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MIT Supply Chain

MAY 23, 2013

3D printing is being hailed as a breakthrough technology that will revolutionize manufacturing and supply chain management. Yet there are a number of important supply chain-related questions about the technology and its application that still need to be answered. Here are a few examples. Quality issues.

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Enterra Insights

MARCH 3, 2021

.”[1] He describes the IoT this way: “It is the network of physical objects, whether in terms of devices, vehicles, buildings or even humans, which are embedded with electronics, sensors, and software and network connectivity. It even helped National Geographic track a discarded plastic bottle from Bangladesh to the Indian Ocean.

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Jaggaer

JULY 23, 2019

Digital transformation is delivering benefits to many of the world’s leading fashion companies, especially in Italy, where roughly half of the leading fashion concerns have implemented JAGGAER solutions. Supply chains are multi-tiered and therefore difficult to manage.

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GlobalTranz

JUNE 24, 2015

To reiterate that reshoring is more than just hype and a very important topic for us to consider the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) study found that 54% of companies with above one billion in revenues are now considering reshoring. In fact, since the recession, more manufacturing companies have been lost than gained in the U.S.

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Shipsy

MAY 12, 2020

Rice exports also have seen substantial movement to Bangladesh from Mundra , whereas the MHA has been pushing west Bengal government to start moving them via road as well. Experienced professional in logistics technology space and handles sales at Shipsy for Southeast Asia. Nhava Sheva: Mundra: Amit Walia. May 12, 2020.

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EcoVadis

JULY 3, 2014

Dell’s goal is to include up to 50 million pounds of recycled content in products by 2020, and the company has already saved $18 million dollars in material costs. This is the holy grail of supply chain sustainability management. But how does your company get there?

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Shipsy

MAY 12, 2020

Rice exports also have seen substantial movement to Bangladesh from Mundra , whereas the MHA has been pushing west Bengal government to start moving them via road as well. Experienced professional in logistics technology space and handles sales at Shipsy for Southeast Asia. Nhava Sheva: Mundra: Amit Walia. May 12, 2020. July 22, 2020.

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Material Handling & Logistics

AUGUST 16, 2017

Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar. This is truly a brilliant plan on China’s part,” explains David Gonsalvez, CEO of the Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation, which is part of the MIT Global Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence Network. companies are already seeing benefits. Eurasian Land Bridge.

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NC State SCRC

AUGUST 7, 2017

Based on a recent interview with an executive at a large global apparel company, several insights regarding improvements in global consistency of data became important. Rather, data is collected and viewed as a means for simply capturing what happened, at a given moment in time, and hopefully glean insights into why an event happened.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 7, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights for readers added indications that China Plus materials supply or production strategies are garnering increased attention from businesses large and small. This appears to be evolving with more evidence points appearing across business, industry and supply chain media.

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EMERGE App

JULY 11, 2018

Much of its meteoric rise was also well-timed with the rapid change in the technology market from desktop PCs to the mobile web, including must-have devices like the iPhone and iPad to just about every mobile device made on this planet. Annual technology product updates became bi-annual. Also, check out the company website.

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EMERGE App

JULY 16, 2018

Suddenly, small and medium-sized businesses had access to Amazon’s superior technology, customer experience and order fulfilment for a fee. It worked for some companies. Your website and Amazon FBA are just tools for your business. These tools work for everyone the same way regardless of what products you’re selling.

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EMERGE App

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Other countries outside of yours will have an advantage in producing certain goods because of lower costs, a highly-tuned supply chain or an abundance of raw materials and labour. For example, China for just about everything that can be made, Vietnam for clothing and shoes, and Bangladesh for garments. And the list goes on.

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EMERGE App

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Other countries outside of yours will have an advantage in producing certain goods because of lower costs, a highly-tuned supply chain or an abundance of raw materials and labour. For example, China for just about everything that can be made, Vietnam for clothing and shoes, and Bangladesh for garments. And the list goes on.

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NC State SCRC

DECEMBER 28, 2015

If there’s anything we’ve learned in the last year, it’s that prediction is not only much more complicated than it looks, and that the volatility and uncertainty that exists in the global supply chain operating environment is making life a whole lot LESS unpredictable.

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Arena Solutions

APRIL 21, 2022

Water pollution shrank or completely stopped on the beaches of Bangladesh, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Maldives. In celebration of Earth Day, we’re proud to highlight the work of our sustainably minded EV customers and other e-mobility innovators who are investing in our planet through technology. Electric Vehicles.

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Freightera

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

We will discuss how other services and companies compare to Freightera using ground freight shipping in North America as the baseline. Traditional Non-Automated Freight Brokerages Traditional non-automated brokers still rely on phone calls, and in more cases than you’d think, pen and paper. out of 1164 reviews. And so do we.

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Freightera

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

We will discuss how other services and companies compare to Freightera using ground freight shipping in North America as the baseline. Traditional Non-Automated Freight Brokerages Traditional non-automated brokers still rely on phone calls, and in more cases than you’d think, pen and paper. out of 1164 reviews. And so do we.

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Material Handling & Logistics

MAY 2, 2018

Much of the food waste produced around the world can be traced back to inconsistencies in the supply chain: inventories aren’t recorded, suppliers aren’t informed, and quality isn’t taken into account. Blockchain offers a decentralized and immutable ledger that can be accessed by any party operating in a given supply chain.

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EcoVadis

MARCH 17, 2016

As companies have tried to gain greater visibility over their supply chains, most have deployed an “audit cycle approach” to enforce supplier compliance with client company policies and expectations. Audits are ineffective tools for detecting, reporting , or correcting environmental and labour problems in supply chains.”.

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NC State SCRC

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Most of the garment industry at the time was sort of “old fashioned”, a bit rude and unpleasant, but the jeans industry in the 60s and 70s had Levis, which was a fun company, and was growing like crazy. That is where most of the business goes today – Bangladesh and Pakistan. ” Olah Inc. They assume others will do it for them.

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Logistics Bureau

JULY 26, 2021

Whether to relocate supply or manufacturing from China to another low-cost country or switch to a near-shoring or re-shoring strategy is not a decision to take lightly. That makes the slow but steady increase in the number of large companies doing just that all the more notable. Let’s see what the evidence suggests.

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Supply Chain Movement

MAY 19, 2016

The supply chain software industry is in a considerable state of flux. as the advance of e-commerce continues, companies with an omnichannel approach are increasingly implementing specific order management systems. Bangladesh. Three large, international take-overs are changing the face of the market. Antarctica.

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Supply Chain Movement

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

A technology revolution is rapidly changing the way we work, providing threats and opportunities along the way. These developments impact Original Equipment Manufacturers, both at strategic level and at operational level within their supply chains. Mindmap High-Tech Supply Chain 4.0. Bangladesh. Afghanistan.

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