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This Week in Logistics News (July 25-29, 2016)

Talking Logistics

“Your compressor is dead.” Those are not the words you want to hear from the technician who comes to service your central air conditioner. “Dead as in I need a new one, or dead as in a new part will bring it back to life?” I asked him, even though I already knew the answer. “Dead is dead,” the technician said in his thick Irish brogue, then he shook my hand and left.

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C3's Top 4 Must-Reads on Becoming a Shipper of Choice

C3 Solutions

Welcome to C3 Solutions' Top Must-Reads series - Volume 4. This is the fourth of a 6 blogs series featuring C3's selection of of the top must-reads on various supply chain and logistics hot topics: Cloud Supply Chain Systems , The Internet of Things , Chain of Responsibility, Becoming a Shipper of Choice, Yard Management & Dock Scheduling systems and best practices.

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Six ways to detect if you’re having a Coaching Conversation

Supply Chain Trend

About 70 percent of change failures are due to culture-related issues: employee resistance to change and unsupportive management behaviours. S&OP implementations requires significant change, not the least behavioural change. Despite this obvious importance of behaviours in change management, only 26 percent of practitioners indicate that behaviours are addressed enough in S&OP implementations.

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Why Marketing Your Supply Chain Matters

APICS

Marketing isn’t just for the marketing department or your company’s marketing people. In fact, the marketing you can do is probably much more interesting to the people who matter a lot to you – prospective employees.

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2024 Annual T&L M&A Report

Tenney Group, an industry specialized M&A Advisory firm in the T&L space, produced the 2024 Annual M&A Report. The report contains an in depth overview of 2023 notable deals and the market, while also providing the outlook for 2024 M&A.

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Boeing and Airbus Have Sky-High Expectations for Supply Chain

RFgen

Boeing and Airbus will stop at nothing to live up to customer expectations, so their supply chain constituents must adjust their practices to increase efficiency. Aircraft makers Boeing and Airbus are not compromising their expectations for any supply chain issues coming from their partners. In fact, Dan Crowley, the chief executive at Triumph, an aerospace equipment group, recently assured these two major Triumph customers that production plans will continue in full swing.

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Boeing and Airbus Have Sky-High Expectations for Supply Chain

RFgen

Boeing and Airbus will stop at nothing to live up to customer expectations, so their supply chain constituents must adjust their practices to increase efficiency. Aircraft makers Boeing and Airbus are not compromising their expectations for any supply chain issues coming from their partners. In fact, Dan Crowley, the chief executive at Triumph, an aerospace equipment group, recently assured these two major Triumph customers that production plans will continue in full swing.

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No Single Template Exists to Create Smart Cities

Enterra Insights

Cities are unique. Like a Siren’s call, their uniqueness beckons residents and tourists alike; and, that uniqueness should be celebrated … Continued. The post No Single Template Exists to Create Smart Cities appeared first on Enterra Solutions.

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What Are the Top Issues Facing the Trucking Industry Today?

DAT Solutions

The American Transportation Research Institute recently posted its yearly survey of the most critical issues facing the trucking industry. In it, they offer a list of 29 issues that “have been identified as the top industry issues for 2016 by industry professionals.” Survey participants are asked to choose the three most important issues facing their businesses.

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Are You Letting Bad Freight Management Hijack Your Brand?

ModusLink Corporation

The last time you ordered something on Amazon Prime, I’m guessing you came away satisfied. For the most part, they’ve got it down to a science: click a button, and the item you want shows up at your doorstep a few days later. It’s that consistency and reliability that helped Amazon build one of the […]. The post Are You Letting Bad Freight Management Hijack Your Brand?

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Why Trucks Will Uncouple from Human Drivers Sooner than You Think

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Why Trucks Will Uncouple from Human Drivers Sooner than You Think. The driverless truck is no longer a fanciful idea that will materialize in some future world. The technology has advanced rapidly over recent years, and I believe that we’ll see these automated vehicles on our highways in the near future. Here’s why. When demand for a product or service outstrips supply, new technology often bridges the gap.

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UK Pharma Awaits Fallout Following Brexit

Elementum

A month after the British people voted to leave the EU , difficulties for the pharmaceutical industry and risks in future investments have arisen. In fact, more than 50 leaders in the pharmaceutical industry, including the CEO of GlaxoSmithkline (GSK), have expressed their concern about Brexit—as it could result in regulatory and business upheaval. Since the UK government decided to invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty in the fall of 2016, the country has two years to wrap up its 43-year old a

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[Infographic] The Top 5 Leadership Qualities in Successful Executives

GlobalTranz

In different parts of the world, leaders set priorities between different leadership qualities, but the quality- winner can still be determined. For the majority, for the next five years, the most valuable quality of the leader will be the ability to think creatively. It is extremely difficult to instill creative thinking in a young generation because of lots of helping services that facilitate student's life like custom writing service, modern gadgets, cribs etc.

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