Talking Logistics
SEPTEMBER 20, 2017
There may be instances where you will have to work more closely with carriers and book further in advance to ensure you can meet critical deliveries. If you fail to book in time, you may miss your delivery deadlines, or will have to use an expedited shipping method to meet them. Booking early is a good idea in certain situations.
Supply Chain Shaman
JUNE 5, 2013
Most often the focus is on transportation or logistics, but does not take into consideration the trade-offs between make, source and deliver. Use of third-party data for transportation lane and drayage times by day/time of week. I am currently busy writing a second book. <Writing a book is tough work.
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Supply Chain Shaman
MAY 14, 2013
When this happens, proxy metrics like Return on Assets (ROA), Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), Days of Payables (DOP), Material Costs, Transportation Costs or Sales and General Administrative Costs (SG&A) can be discussed and trade-offs can be made easily cross-functionally. Functional metrics in isolation degrade value.
GlobalTranz
APRIL 26, 2016
As a logistics service provider, focusing on over-the-road surface transportation management solutions via technology and managed transportation services, we find the following information on the history of shipping containers of great significance to the logistics and supply chain community at large. Shipping between Europe, S.E.
Freightos
APRIL 24, 2016
US Army uses the “Transporter” container, developed four years earlier for removals, for Korean War supply movements. First intermodal cargo transportation (containers are stacked on deck). Development of intermodal container shipping is impacting other transport modes. Shipping between Europe, S.E. Significance.
Repl Group
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
Nowhere is this more true than in South Africa. . Having worked in the UK and US, Doug Robertson is REPL’s South Africa Senior Principal. With under-qualification prevalent, South Africa suffers from a skills shortage that’s particularly felt in computing and electronics among other occupations.
Supply Chain Shaman
APRIL 7, 2016
I am half-way through a spring speaking tour that will wrap-up in June with a speech in South Africa and Peru. Use GPS, maps and weather signals to better predict arrival and route transportation assets. This work is important to me. I believe that supply chains build economies and save the world. 3) Supplier Sensing.
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