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This Week in Logistics News (May 27 – June 2)

Logistics Viewpoints

And now on to this week’s logistics news. companies were further rattled after Chinese authorities recently questioned workers at Boston-based consulting firm Bain & Co. Walmart added new functionality that lets sellers purchase shipping labels for domestic orders on its marketplace.

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Joseph Shamir to Retire as ToolsGroup CEO; Inna Kuznetsova Named Successor

ToolsGroup

BOSTON (May 31, 2022) – ToolsGroup , a global leader in supply chain planning and optimization software, announced today that Joe (Yossi) Shamir will retire from his role as CEO. In her previous role, she was the CEO of 1010data, the leading provider of cross-enterprise data analytics tools.

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Who Should Be In The Winner’s Circle?

Supply Chain Shaman

On a cold Boston winter day, I slipped into my seat on a back row in a packed conference room at AMR Research. The topic of the meeting was the logistics to launch of the AMR Research Top 25. When Gartner purchased AMR Research in December 2009, the methodology became the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25. The result? The reason?

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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech December 13 2022 Edition

Supply Chain Matters

This action represents a reported 77 percent premium to the company’s closing stock price on November 22, 2022, the last full trading day prior to media reports involving a potential transaction. The announcement further coincides with Coupa Software’s report of fiscal third quarter financial performance.

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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech- March 5 2022 Edition

Supply Chain Matters

Founded in 2014, this Boston based robotics technology firm leverages capabilities that are described as mimicking human hand-eye coordination, leveraging machine-learning to a vision system on a gripper and allowing mechanical fingers to bend and twist around objects to perform piece-picking tasks.

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Insights from Elemica reveal 2014 Frankfurt

Talking Logistics

What do the Germany World Cup Team and the Boston Red Sox have in common? As I wrote earlier this year in Is Your Business Model Safe? , Herman Woltjes, Shell Chemicals – “Logistics Execution”. But at the same time, supply chains are challenged by complex logistics, systems issues, legal requirements, and lack of resources.”

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Top 10 Logistics Trends That Could Impact Supply Chains in 2022

Locus

“All great enterprises are about logistics. Not genius or inspiration or flights of imagination, skill or cunning, but logistics.” — Tom McCarthy. This was majorly due to their inability to understand and adapt to the changing logistics trends. A decade back these developments in logistics might have seemed impossible.