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Is Bitcoin Gold or Fiat Currency?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Bitcoin gold or fiat currency article and permission to publish here provided by Jean Nichols. These are digitally transferred with a currency acting as a finger swipe. Defining the Currency value. People have developed different currencies ever since the idea of the transaction came into the market. Subscribe Here!

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Strategic Transportation Spend Management: How FAP + Historical Data = Actionable Insights

Intelligent Audit

Shippers regularly spend up to 10 percent of gross expenses on transportation spend management and related shipping expenses. Aside from labor costs and freight payments , transportation and logistics management—including paying carriers and sending freight—can eat up budgets and add to fees. Additional Ways More Data Increases Value.

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Blockchain for Supply Chain: A Comprehensive Guide for Businesses

SCMDOJO

By providing a secure and transparent way to track products from their origin to their final destination, blockchain for supply chain can help increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve trust between suppliers and customers. Blockchain technology is a decentralized, digital ledger that records transactions in a secure and transparent way.

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Blockchain and TMS: A Future Match Made In Heaven?

GlobalTranz

The implications of a technology capable of self-maintaining security, maximizing data reporting and accuracy, streamlined payment processing and shipment scheduling, immediate access to real-time data, and end-to-end transparency evoke mirages from the past, asserts Talking Logistics With Adrian Gonzalez. What’s that mean?

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Does Geography Matter in the Digital Age?

Enterra Insights

But then along came the internet in the 1980s, and suddenly distance-related business costs collapsed for transactions, communications, transportation, and search. Transportation costs became lower in two ways. Nevertheless, the globalization of business placed greater emphasis on lead times, transportation costs, and so forth.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 21-25, 2016)

Talking Logistics

Omnitracs’ Roadnet® Transportation Suite 3.7.4 Speaking of cross-border trade, “all five major transportation modes – truck, rail, pipeline, vessel and air – carried less U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics. So, what is the current state of the transportation market?

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Are Asian Economies Heading for a Bumpy Ride in 2022

20Cube Logistics

The rising shipment, transportation charges, and demurrage that happened in the wake of the pandemic, have pointed towards makers designing and devising methods to sell out their products to retain at least a thin margin of profit. With the foreign investment getting affected, the supply of goods would also be impacted.