Fri.Jul 27, 2018

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Brexit’s Unknowns Present Challenges

APICS

British aerospace giants Airbus and Rolls-Royce are preparing for Britain’s departure from the EU – also known as Brexit. Reuters reports that as much as the big companies prepare, their business may suffer consequences resulting from their smaller supply chain partners.

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Warehouse Management Proficiency Through Mobility Technology

GlobalTranz

The role of warehousing in e-commerce is undisputed, and mobility technology is integral to enhance warehouse management proficiency in the modern world. According to Ivanti , mobility technology allows warehouse managers to develop better processes and systems for inventory management and maintain high accountability, visibility, and proficiency in operations.

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Supply Chain News on Walmart and Amazon by the Numbers 2018

Supply Chain Digest

Our Annual Review of the Two Most Important Retailers in th World

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What is an autonomous robot?

PINC

Here are seven qualities that set autonomous drones and robots apart from their human-controlled counterparts.

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Scaling Logistics for Success: A White Claw Story

Speaker: Scott Campbell and Molly Feller

As the demand for your products skyrockets 🚀, you're likely experiencing logistical challenges that are preventing you from scaling your business. The sudden surge in demand can be exciting, but it can also put a strain on your supply chain and logistics operations. In this webinar, join Scott Campbell, Vice President, Logistics & Demand at Mark Anthony Services and Molly Feller, VP Logistics as a Service Operations at e2open, as they explore the challenges that arise when companies expe

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3 Reasons Sustainability Matters to Your Supply Chain

Americold

As customers continue to set increased expectations around transparency and energy-conserving efforts, incorporating corporate social responsibility (CSR) is becoming a market differentiator.

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Shipper of Choice Infographic

Freight Plus

Download a high resolution copy of our Shipper of Choice Infographic by submitting the form below Are your supply chain costs going up? Contact a trusted adviser at Aborn & Co. today for a complimentary consultation and learn how we have empowered data to save our clients over $5 billion in freight expenses.

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Friday in 5: Selling The Empty Space Inside Retailers’ Packages

BlueYonder

Welcome to Friday in 5 – news from around the supply chain world, served up in one place to keep you up to date. This week: Retailers are learning to monetize the empty space inside packages; billions of pounds of meat are piling up in U.S. cold-storage warehouses; RadioShack returns with a new store-in-a-store format; UPS grows on the back of e-commerce demand; and MIT researchers explore critical hurricane-related supply chains.

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Uncovering Cost Savings in Material Handling and Fleet Management

Talking Logistics

Jeff Burns, President at Kenco Material Handling Solutions discusses the following questions and more in this timely and informative episode: What does “fleet management” mean for material handling and distribution folks? What are some of the main challenges companies face related to fleet management? How do you determine whether to buy, lease, or rent equipment?

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Compliance Instruction Manual: Valuation Chapter

Shapiro

It’s time to open your Import Compliance Tools Instruction Manual! The first page brings you to one of Customs’ most common errors when importing: Valuation. The responsibility of reporting the correct value of the cargo to Customs falls on the importer because of ‘Reasonable Care,’ which states importers are aware of their obligations when importing.

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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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US GDP Q2 Growth Highest in Almost 4 Years

Supply Chain 24/7

The US economy advanced an annualized 4.1 percent on quarter in the second quarter of 2018, well above an upwardly revised 2.2 percent expansion in the previous period and in line with market expectations.

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Average price of injection moulding machines

Exapro Hub

Are you looking for an injection moulding machine but you don’t know how much money you should include in your investment plan? As you know, you should never prefer price over quality. A new machine can indirectly cost you money after you bought it. But how can you know if you are crossing the limit? Or maybe you’re about to sell yours and you don’t know for how much you should sell it?

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Time to Reimagine STEM Education from Bottom to Top

Enterra Insights

Even the most casual observer of the human condition understands the world continues to become more technologically advanced. In spite of a few eras during which humankind’s knowledge regressed, technological advancement is a trend that helps define human history. Common sense tells us our children need to be prepared to succeed in a technology-based world; yet, many pundits insist Industrial Age education models are keeping us from achieving that goal.

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Shipper of Choice Infographic

Freight Plus

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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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This Week in Logistics News (July 23-27, 2018)

Talking Logistics

Cyberattack and hacker threats. Robots and self-driving cars. Same-day delivery. Blockchain. Tariffs. Just another typical week in the world of supply chain and logistics. Here’s the news that caught my attention: China’s Cosco Shipping Hit by Cyberattack in U.S. (WSJ – sub. req’d). Study warns of rising hacker threats to SAP, Oracle business software (Reuters).