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Writing: Working on My Book

Supply Chain Shaman

My kitchen table is piled high with interviews for the upcoming book, Metrics That Matter. Writing a book is a labor of love. It is my second book. To give readers a sneak peek for the book, here I share my interview with Peter. Peter is one of sixty-five companies that I have interviewed for the book. I am behind.

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[e-Book] The Most Impactful Supply Chain & Logistics Trends in 2017

GlobalTranz

“The problem with trends is that they are like a freight train gaining speed; everyone can see the train, but at what point do you say the train is really moving at speed?” – Steve Banker from a recent Forbes article. Finally, we include trends you will see in manufacturing and manufacturing technology.

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Skillfully Managing Manufacturing Reshoring Projects

GlobalTranz

There’s more involved in successfully reshoring a foreign manufacturing operation back to the U.S. Reshoring is a hot topic in manufacturing. These “Bring Manufacturing Back” initiatives have many moving parts and require careful planning and execution and very skillful project management. than simple cost comparisons.

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Are Ocean Freight Prices Absolutely Broken?

Freightos

And the lack of demand visibility is a big contributor to China-US ocean freight rates doubling to the West Coast since June, and passing $4,000/FEU to the East Coast – which was surprising as most analysts thought that rates and profits would freefall. Is ocean freight pricing broken? Was it profiteering? It worked. .

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This Week in Logistics News (February 3 – 9)

Logistics Viewpoints

In a strange twist, all the parking spaces for private planes in Las Vegas are currently booked, according to the Associated Press. At this time, the company does not provide customers with any information about who is delivering their packages. Bank Freight Payment Index. I guess she’ll have to work some of that Taylor magic.

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Are Ocean Freight Prices Absolutely Broken?

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

And the lack of demand visibility is a big contributor to China-US ocean freight rates doubling to the West Coast since June, and passing USD4,000/FEU to the East Coast – which was surprising as most analysts thought that rates and profits would freefall. Is ocean freight pricing broken? Was it profiteering? And it can be fixed.

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Should We Celebrate this Marriage?

Supply Chain Shaman

At the time, we were both deployed as consultants for Manugistics to help a manufacturing company to implement end-to-end planning. in to transportation management to drive routing information and booking optimization). The groups of supply planning, procurement and logistics operate within silos. History of E2open.