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Editor’s Choice: Fortifying Warehouse and Distribution Centers Against Cyberattacks

Logistics Viewpoints

This article is from Patrick Byers, DevOps Engineer at Lucas Systems, and looks at fortifying warehouse and distribution centers against cybersecurity attacks. Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting this growing sector due to the large amounts of data stored in these systems and their potential value.

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Real Time Container Tracking with Kyle Henderson

The Logistics of Logistics

Faced with the challenge of limited data availability, he co-founded Vizion, an API-first solution empowering cargo owners, freight forwarders, and software providers to achieve true supply chain visibility by tracking ocean freight in near real-time. With data refreshed multiple times daily, latency is reduced to 6 hours or less.

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The Journey to End-to-End (E2E) Supply Chain Visibility Is Ongoing

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It means being able to see where a shipment or an order is while it’s in transit — whether on a truck, a railcar, an ocean liner or a cargo plane — anywhere in the world. Ensuring that systems can meet the goals of local and HQ teams equally well. In layman’s terms, it’s fundamentally about seeing everything, everywhere.

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UPS Strike Averted While Workers Gain Heat Protection

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UPS is the largest parcel delivery company in North America. The New Contract The new agreement eliminates a two-tiered wage system and institutes raises across UPS’ workforce. The five-year deal includes wage increases and historic new protections for working in high temperatures for UPS’s employees.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 20 – 26)

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The company has also taken a tech-driven approach to tackling the issue, by investing in machine learning and improving its proactive controls that automate and broaden its intellectual property protection and counterfeit detection systems. This resulted in meaningful cost savings for our last mile delivery program overall,” he added.

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Addressing Challenges in Global Logistics Operations with Technology

DELMIA Quintiq

This shift is more prominent in North America as they have typically, bigger houses and therefore, more scope for concepts such as a home gym and home office. This meant a huge movement of goods from East Asia to Western Europe and America, creating an asymmetry in demand as well as freight rates.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 25 – March 4)

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Together with GKN Sinter Metals, John Deere is using the Metal Jet technology to produce thermal diverter valves in the fuel system for its small and midsize tractors assembled in Mannheim, Germany. This July, the company is moving forward with a supply chain services platform for retail partners across North America.