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How to effectively control your transport costs.

ModusLink Corporation

It is no secret that transport costs have been rising across all different modalities. Carriers must enforce measures such as peak surcharges, and records are being broken in terms of transport costs throughput. Inflation puts immense pressure on many businesses and forces them to reevaluate their current transport operations.

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The Ultimate Guide to Contract Logistics: What You Need to Know

SCMDOJO

It involves outsourcing logistics activities, such as warehousing, transportation, distribution, inventory management, and order fulfillment, to a dedicated logistics service provider. The Netherlands: The Logistics Hub of Northern Europe The Netherlands stands as a logistics hub for the whole of Europe due to several factors.

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Job opening: Associate Director European Distribution at Astellas

Supply Chain Movement

The products are made in our EMEA Astellas sites, which are based in Kerry (Ireland) and Meppel (the Netherlands). In this position you will co-develop, document and implement the supply chain strategy in relation to the transport and distribution process of the European products. Your personal qualifications.

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Is Google the most innovative supply chain company in the world?

Freightos

So when I asked Cathy Roberson, a senior analyst at Transport Intelligence and a tech-enthusiast who is vox supplychainus on Twitter at cmroberson06 , I was not surprised when she sent me back an analysis that seems to match up perfectly with some of Google’s recent projects: Google Glasses, Android and 3D printing.

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The Importance of Transparency in Supply Chains

Enterra Insights

Food Safety Modernization Act) with further regulation on the horizon in the Netherlands and Switzerland, among others.” For example, shipments that are missing origin documents are being held up and turned away at ports, causing costly disruptions that ripple through supply chains.” ” Concluding thoughts.

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Your UFLPA Risks May Be Wearing A Disguise

QAD

It is not just a documentation error. The US, UK, the Netherlands and others have accused China of human rights abuses in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR). Once again, importers will need to provide sufficient documentation to prove the provenance of these goods before they can enter into the US.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 13-17, 2018)

Talking Logistics

Blockchain might not be able to solve, cure, or save everything as the hype suggests, but there are certainly applications where the business case makes more sense, such as global trade because of the many different parties, documents, regulations, and financial transactions involved. New Transportation Solutions from project44 and Kuebix.