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Top Solutions for Supply Chain Agility

Logistics Viewpoints

Customers use their modular, SaaS solutions to route, schedule, track, and measure delivery resources; plan, allocate and execute shipments; rate, audit, and pay transportation invoices; access global trade data; file customs and security documents for imports and exports; and complete numerous other logistics processes.

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The Advantage of Speed: The Cooper Health Supply Chain Relies Upon Real-time Risk Alerts

Logistics Viewpoints

For at least a decade, few supply chain professionals knew about these solutions. Buying organizations use this technology to monitor and analyze supplier risk events in real-time. So, suppliers were asked if they used carriers or their own trucks to haul freight. The pandemic changed that.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 29 -September 2, 2016)

Talking Logistics

GE Acquires Top Supply Chain Software Provider ShipXpress to Expand Digital Rail Offerings. Online freight marketplace Freightos acquires Spain’s WebCargoNet (TechCrunch). DHL to trial vision picking in the UK (Logistics Manager). MatchBack Systems Announces Major Big Data Milestone. UPS Announces U.S.

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Citations of Excellence Awards 2016

SCM Research

Technology Designed to Combat Fakes in the Global Supply Chain. The Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Freight Transport by Pooling Supply Chains. Closed-Loop Supply Chains: A Critical Review, and Future Research. Business Horizons, 56 (2), 167-177 DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2012.11.010.

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Whitman School Collaborates with Staples to Analyze Supply Chain Management Opportunities Sparking Millennial Interest

GlobalTranz

Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence and associate professor of supply chain. Whitman faculty and students will analyze big data on customer orders and make adjustments in inventory deployment decisions to create further efficiencies. The work brings out a new perspective in supply chain risk management.

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Google Will Acquire a 3PL – And Other Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2015

Talking Logistics

Managed Services: The “Stretch Armstrong” of Logistics. Process Industry Moving Up the Supply Chain Maturity Curve. Big Data and Analytics for Oil and Gas Transportation. It’s the promise of Big Data, Business Intelligence, and Analytics. For related commentary, see: Notable Quote: C.H.

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Logistics, Data, and Cognitive Computing

Enterra Insights

Shannon Vaillancourt, President of RateLinx explains, “The right data can create the intelligence required to know where to begin to solve many common problems. These can include freight costs that are too high, transit times that are too long or not charging enough for freight.”[1]