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The History of Shipment Tracking

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In today’s world, shipment tracking sounds new and innovative, but humanity has been tracking shipments for longer than many realize. Ancient Egypt Established the First Known Courier Service Ancient Egypt established the first known courier service around 2,400 B.C.E. Modern shipment tracking might not seem like a big issue.

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Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods

Gravity Supply Chain

This corporate management innovation eventually became standard operating procedure throughout the West. made great use of this innovation during the Vietnam War to ship supplies to soldiers, who sometimes even used the containers as shelters … This innovation made the modern globalized world possible.

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Mindmap for Global Logistics Integration

Supply Chain Movement

At the same time, a tsunami of technology innovations is flooding the business landscape, creating new possibilities but also more complexity. Third, it is essential the system generate pre-invoices to reduce carrier invoice uncertainties, eliminate fraud, and manage freight spend. Congo, The Democratic Republic of The. Cook Islands.