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[INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Shipping Containers

GlobalTranz

As a bonus, at the Imagine 2014 Magento e-commerce Conference, Malcolm Gladwell spoke about Malcolm McLean (just as he did in this Inc. Raleigh-Durham-Cary N.C. Below, you can also view the history of shipping containers in one infographic. Readers' choice! We hope you find the following information interesting and helpful.

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SCRC Meeting – Tom Linton’s “Supply Chain Eight” and Golden Winged Warblers : Questions Every New CSCO Should Ask Their CEO

NC State SCRC

I also provided an early look at one of the supply chain physics laws that I will be working on with my colleague Tom Linton, who also presented at the conference: Supply Chain Physics Law 3 : Shorter distances between parties in the supply chain improve efficiency, communication, and speed of execution. and will operate more efficiently.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 25-29, 2019)

Talking Logistics

I’ve been trying to learn the basics of the game, and as luck would have it, at the Descartes Evolution 2019 conference this week (more about the conference in a future post), I sat with a Descartes executive who is an experienced rugby player — he even coached the women’s team at his university. For Power Tools Sold In Iran.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 4-8, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Descartes Showcases Logistics Technology Platform Innovations at Global User and Partner Conference. In technology news, I attended the Descartes Evolution Global User & Partner Conference this week, which featured a lot of great sessions and case studies. Amazon expands same-day Prime delivery to 11 more cities (Seattle Times).

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This Week in Logistics News (September 15-19, 2014)

Talking Logistics

Are you attending the CSCMP Annual Global Conference next week? Kuehne + Nagel inaugurates North America’s regional Integrated Logistics Control Centre in Raleigh, NC, USA. If so, let’s connect. It’s clear from this week’s long list of news that the pace of change and innovation in supply chain management continues to accelerate.

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Post-mortem on Christmas Logistics Chaos: On Customer Commitments and Transparency

NC State SCRC

Every one of his major retail big box customers (about 6 of them) required detailed conference calls lasting an hour and a half, almost every other day, requiring detailed information on the location and origin of the just about every single trailer, shipment, ocean carrier, and third party provider down to a granular level of detail.