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Is Logistics Outsourcing Right for Your Company?

Supply Chain Movement

More shippers today appear to be outsourcing some or all of their logistics. How does a company decide that outsourcing logistics is the right choice? Integrated technology gathers data from all parts of the supply chain and provides full visibility to orders and costs. Is logistics outsourcing right for your company?

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Do Tariffs Really Impact China’s Global Supply Chain?

NC State SCRC

By operating the terminals and financing the development of ports, they can then offer the technology and equipment to manage the terminals and provide resources for industrial organization projects and inland logistics channels that include railways, roads and cross docking stations for truck shipments.

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Mindmap High-Tech Supply Chain 4.0

Supply Chain Movement

With emerging ground-breaking technology, such as Augmented and Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence with thinking robots, Internet of Things by interconnectivity between machines, 3D printing and Big Data analysis delivers threats and opportunities to high-tech companies at the same time. United States Minor Outlying Islands. Uzbekistan.

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Updated IT Subway Map: Major acquisitions in SC software

Supply Chain Movement

This young, publicly listed American software vendor recently bought out Terra Technology, a specialist in demand sensing (short-term forecasting based on point-of-sale data). United States Minor Outlying Islands. Uzbekistan. Virgin Islands, British. Virgin Islands, U.S. Wallis and Futuna. Western Sahara. I accept the Terms & Conditions.

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SCM Map Europe: European location decisions remain complex

Supply Chain Movement

For the fourth consecutive year, Supply Chain Media has produced the SCM Map of Europe providing an overview of the most relevant data for value chains. According to logistics real-estate specialists, the Netherlands – and in particular the southern part of the country – is a favoured location and will remain so for the coming years.

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Who’s Using Blockchain in 2020, and How?

Logistics Bureau

De Beers’ Tracr can provide provenance data for diamonds and track them from the mine to the retail outlet. The result of the collaboration is the Food Trust Blockchain , a distributed ledger solution capable of recording data associated with more than a million individual products. Other Food Industry Blockchain Initiatives.