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It’s Silicon Valley and Detroit, not Silicon Valley vs Detroit (Pt. II)

QAD

In “ It’s Silicon Valley and Detroit, not Silicon Valley vs Detroit (Pt. The consortium includes other car manufacturers, tech companies, and automotive suppliers, including BMW, Fiat Chrysler Automotive, Intel, Mobileye (Intel purchased Mobileye in 2017 for $15.2 Examples include: BMW Consortium. Waymo Partnerships.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 14-18, 2013)

Talking Logistics

In other news… Descartes Launches Updated Advanced Home Delivery Solution. HighJump Software, TrueCommerce EDI Solutions Group Announces Strategic Partnership with Unisun Software. Wal-Mart seeks to tether small stores to big ones ( The Detroit News ). and “What is a transportation provider?”

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Top Considerations Around Reshoring in Today’s Supply Chain

QAD

It’s no secret that putting all of your eggs in one basket probably isn’t the best idea, but that’s exactly what manufacturers around the world have been doing for years in offshoring production to China. That includes front-end forecasting and planning, procurement, manufacturing, logistics and import/export.

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Overcoming Automotive Logistics Challenges – Part II

BlueYonder

Before, they might say to purchasing, “You guys have done a brilliant job; you’ve reduced your costs by a million dollars because you’re buying everything from India. The biggest savings won’t be from trying to make transportation cheaper at a plant, but looking at why logistics cost are so high for that plant. No, we’re not.

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Dispelling Three Common Myths about Global TMS Deployment

Talking Logistics

For the last couple of decades transportation management systems (TMS) have revolutionized supply chains, helping companies streamline their logistics processes, achieve greater visibility into their operations and save significant dollars on transportation. Myth #2 – TMS providers don’t offer a truly global solution.

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Supply Chain Management in a VUCA World

Enterra Insights

Yet all of the functions that we now associate with Supply Chain have been around for a very long time: Planning, Inventory Management, Logistics, Procurement and Purchasing, Warehousing and many more.”[2] ” Coining a term and defining the term are two different things. Carey School of Business, explains what it entails.

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The FarEye Story With Kushal Nahata

The Logistics of Logistics

You start having all the data, bringing AI and some other tools against it. I’m in Detroit about 4 and a half to 5 hours away, depending on the traffic. These transporters came in and said, “We’ve got vehicles moving. We built it because we wanted to scale, and we wanted our customers to be able to use the tool.