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Comparing and Contrasting Mom with QAD Adaptive ERP

QAD

I can reach my mom 24 hours a day by phone (although I can’t leave a message because she doesn’t know how to set up her voicemail). Which leads us into… How They Are Different. Each time I visit, I can count on a hot, nutritious breakfast every morning by 8:30 a.m. QAD Adaptive ERP is super dependable too.

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How Do You Saw a Ship in Half… Underwater?

The Network Effect

The MV Tricolor is perhaps the unluckiest cargo ship in recent memory. Luckily, it was all captured on film so you can see how it unfolded. About 20 miles north of the French coast near Dunkirk, on a foggy night on December 14 2002, The Tricolor was cruising westward on its way to Southampton England from Zeebrugge Belgium.

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Conquering the high seas: What’s shaking the global liner shipping industry?

DELMIA Quintiq

Last month we looked at this trend from the terminal operators’ point of view and how it causes planning headaches at multiple points of a container terminal. How to strengthen your competitive edge with smart planning and optimization. Minimize the number of unit moves during a call port. Good or bad news? Click To Tweet.

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Logistics Hubs as Drivers of Innovation

MIT Supply Chain

Key players came together at the first European Logistics Clusters Forum , on October 14 -15, 2014, in Brussels, Belgium, to explore their possible involvement in the initiative. It’s a chicken-and-egg problem; shippers will not provide the cargo until operators guarantee the rail capacity, and vice versa.