Talking Logistics
APRIL 26, 2019
Swipe, click, this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Google Spinoff’s Drone Delivery Business First to Get FAA Approval (Bloomberg) Amazon to invest $800 million to make one-day free shipping the standard for Prime members (WSJ – sub. Amazon offers one-day and two-hour shipping to Prime members for some products for a fee.
Kinaxis
MAY 13, 2015
For Avaya, the journey began with the realization they were spending too much time on low-value, reactionary activities, like translating and moving data. More specifically, Avaya saw their on-time ship rate jump from 86% to 94%, their past due revenue decrease from $42M to $10M and their employee engagement scores increase by 57%.
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NC State SCRC
JANUARY 13, 2017
Most logistics companies are still far from being able to fully integrate data and analytics to better manage. Not many people are doing much with big data and we all need better systems to manage all that data to make better decisions and cut through the massive complexity that exists in the supply chain.
Talking Logistics
SEPTEMBER 19, 2014
Kuehne + Nagel inaugurates North America’s regional Integrated Logistics Control Centre in Raleigh, NC, USA. FedEx to Increase Shipping Rates. Menlo Logistics Opening New Multi-client Warehouse in Ladkrabang, Thailand. DHL opens new life sciences and healthcare competence center at Leipzig airport.
Supply Chain View from the Field
FEBRUARY 26, 2015
His insights and presence were most appreciated by everyone, especially given the snowfall we were experiencing in Raleigh last night! The sales person who wants that commission is happy – but the one in Phoenix who has to ship what is perhaps the last small shirt in the store, loses on that potential sale.
NC State SCRC
DECEMBER 8, 2019
You can either ship it by boat from China (30 days) or by plane (FedEx). Tom then had to design the rules to visualize data. The Pulse rooms are fed by data warehouses which pull together data from 94 different applications that are each being used to run data in different parts of the Flex organization.
NC State SCRC
MAY 11, 2020
After all, supply chain management is about getting things moving, and that applies not only to roads, airports, and ships, but to how we think about getting things to people. Supply chain resilience generally means the ability to manage risk and be best positioned to respond and even gain advantage from disruptions (Sheffi, 2007). [1]
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