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UPS Strike Averted While Workers Gain Heat Protection

Logistics Viewpoints

This claim was made again in UPS’s last annual report. The agreement requires in-cab air conditioning in most UPS delivery vehicles purchased after Jan. Existing and newly purchased package cars would be fitted with air induction vents to alleviate extreme temperatures in the back of the vehicles where cargo is loaded and unloaded.

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I am MAD!

Supply Chain Shaman

We can connect through EDI, but a document has latency and limitations for unstructured data. Today, 7% of order and purchase order flows move through business networks. For access to the report on business networks reference this r eport. However, inter-enterprise communication moves largely by email. The gaps are large.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 7-11, 2015)

Talking Logistics

Hundreds of Cafe Bustelo cans washed ashore in Florida this week. MercuryGate extends invoicing and document management solution with HubTran integration. According to a report in Re/code: The trailers won’t be used to deliver packages to customer doors. Source: Laurie Cus.

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Reflections: Building the Network of Networks

Supply Chain Shaman

Today, retired and tan, Maddy calls me from time-to-time from Florida. Here is the latest report outlining the capabilities. I am updating this report.). He wrote the invoice to the fake company and signed the receiving documents without physically receiving the merchandise. In this case, the purchase was wooden pallets.

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Hospitals Suffer from a Lack of Market Transparency: New Evidence from a Research Project with SCWorx

NC State SCRC

A number of potential solutions have been suggested with the rise of social media and e-markets, including provider and supplier consolidation, public websites documenting healthcare costs, reimbursement levels and integration with electronic medical records as part of its elements.

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26 logistics professionals reveal the biggest trends in logistics technology

6 River Systems

These technologies also contribute to a rise in big data and analytics in the logistics field. Mobile apps: Pulling these reports several times a day can be tedious and leads to performance not being monitored in real-time. Mobile apps can generate reports and monitor performance metrics. ScienceSoft.

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Basic ITAR Compliance Awareness

Arena Solutions

You must have a documented ITAR compliance program. It is critical that you have a compliance program in that you document it and I’ll talk about some of the implications of that later on when we talk about consequences. And you can get all the results immediately, you can get certain reports on where the gaps are.