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Alibaba Expands U.S. Online Shipment Program

Supply Chain Matters

Reportedly, this five day delivery logistics support has also expanded to countries such as France, Germany, Mexico, Portugal , and Saudi Arabia under the capabilities of Cainiao , Alibaba’s logistics fulfillment arm. © Copyright 2024, The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group and the Supply Chain Matters® blog.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 24-28, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Revenues increased 25 percent to $38 billion in the quarter compared to Q2 2016, but profits fell by 77 percent as the company continues to invest heavily in its various businesses, including its logistics and fulfillment network. Tesco launches nationwide same-day delivery (Logistics Manager). AscendTMS To Integrate With FourKites.

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World Cup fever: Scoring the goal

DELMIA Quintiq

During holidays and special events, we tend see the same themes in supply chain blog posts. The post on the logistical challenge of Christmas deliveries, the supply chain commentary on Valentine’s Day flower forecasting, harvesting and shipping, and the production processing post on chocolate Easter bunnies.

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Inditex Achieves Added Business and Supply Network Accomplishments

Supply Chain Matters

Of all of our featured blog content in 2021, our most read blog was our March 2021 commentary: Zara Provides The Benchmark For Supply Chain Digital Transformation. . Further reported was the highest profitability performance in a decade in the midst of high inflation and disrupted global transportation and logistics networks.

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The Supply Chain Response to India’s Second Wave of Covid!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Saudi Arabia shipped 80 Metric tonnes of liquid oxygen to India and Portugal assured 20,000 litres of oxygen per week to India along with 5503 vials of Remdesvir. Some of the others countries who helped us in this time of grave crisis included Bhutan, Ireland, Romania , Portugal, Hong Kong and Thailand.

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Introducing QAD Adaptive ERP 2023 and Enhancements for QAD Adaptive Applications

QAD

Updates in the past few months address new requirements for Brazil, India, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, United States and other global regions. With this release, an integration with QAD EQMS is available to feed QAD SRM supplier ratings with quality and logistics related data, strengthening supplier management decision-making.

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Crisis was inevitable according to chaos theory

Supply Chain Movement

For example, a few years ago, the logistics director of car maker Skoda proudly told me that simulation software had enabled them to figure out how to fit three car bodies into one shipping container. Simpler portfolio.