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The Pandemic hasn’t Dampened Enthusiasm for Blockchain Technology

Enterra Insights

Kevin Beasley, CIO at VAI, explains, “As consumers hunker down at home because of COVID-19, their spending on packaged retail food items has surged. … Supply and retail companies continue to deliver, but there’s no doubt the supply chain is feeling the strain. Blockchain and supply chain.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 3-7, 2016)

Talking Logistics

It is going to take several more years and millions of dollars more to bring other promising technologies to market and to find a cure, which is why the money we raised is so important. In the meantime, here’s the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: DHL Supply Chain acquires Italian Group MIT Safetrans.

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This Week in Logistics News (July 15-19, 2013)

Talking Logistics

Con-way Freight Raises the Bar on Mexico Service, Adds Door-to-Door Tracking, 24-Hour Customer Resource Center, Enhanced Web Tools. LLamasoft Launches Data Services to Provide Reference Data for the Supply Chain Design Community. HighJump Software Acquires Evenex.

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Challenges Abound as Peak Season Approaches

Intelligent Audit

From supply chain snafus to the growing threat of history-making strikes, it’s been another week of exciting changes within the global logistics industry. per package for its SmartMail products, depending on shipping speed and distance, ” according to SupplyChainDive. Recurrent Food Safety Failures Threaten Supply Chains.

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New Shipping Operations Ideas Bring Fresh Air to Stale Strategies

Intelligent Audit

Facing Low Package Volumes, UPS Introduces Logistics-as-a-Service Offering. This service offering will include improved delivery density, end-to-end visibility, financial solutions, advanced capabilities, and reverse logistics, Supply Chain Dive reports. For UPS, the partnership with Overstock, currently valued at $1.4

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This Week in Logistics News (December 5 – 11)

Logistics Viewpoints

And while it has been one of the most challenging and difficult years in recent memory, it has also been a great year of bringing you the all the biggest supply chain and logistics news. Like in years past, I have learned a lot this year from reading and researching so many supply chain and logistics news stories.

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Complex costs of transportation

Supply Chain Movement

Supply Chain Movement and software vendor Eyefreight have developed this checklist to provide to pinpoint the key drivers of Freight Spend Management. A TMS with inventory allocation enables shippers to monitor shipments down to the package level. How likely are carriers to agree on endless rate cuts? Christmas Island.