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This Week in Logistics News (January 14-18, 2019)

Talking Logistics

Meaning, will its hype far exceed what it will ever accomplish in the industry? Also this week, as reported by Reuters , “Ford, technology giant IBM, South Korean cathode maker LG Chem and China’s Huayou Cobalt have joined forces in the first blockchain project to monitor cobalt supplies from Democratic Republic of Congo.”.

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Updated IT Subway Map: Major acquisitions in SC software

Supply Chain Movement

The supply chain software industry is in a considerable state of flux. Congo, The Democratic Republic of The. directly from their suppliers, from their own warehouse or even from a retail store). Three large, international take-overs are changing the face of the market. Cape Verde. Cayman Islands. Central African Republic.

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KPI Key Performance Indicators in Supply Chain & Logistics

Logistics Bureau

Warehousing. Of course, the difference between KPIs and metrics will vary at different levels of your organisation, so for example, while a metric recording “receiving accuracy” in a warehouse would certainly be a KPI for a warehouse manager, it would be completely extraneous as an executive-level KPI.

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