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This Week in Logistics News (October 27-31, 2014)

Talking Logistics

Amazon Opens 3 Logistics Centers in Poland (ABC News). Robinson introduced a new tagline (“Accelerate Your Advantage”), and last month Menlo Logistics launched a new brand, website, and tagline (“Customer Innovation”). DHL launches North Asian multimodal service linking Japan to Europe. Con-way Inc. Reports 2014 Third-quarter Results.

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Software Testing – Adding Testing Automation Expertise to Retail Expertise

Repl Group

Lead by Test Director Antony Kaplan, the team has been tasked with applying the latest innovations in testing automation to REPL’s world-leading retail projects. For a global fuel customer, a POS software replacement programme called Reset has already seen Australia, the Netherlands and Poland tested manually. In Summary.

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SCM World 2014 Chief Supply Chain Officer Report: A Conversation with Kevin O’Marah – Part IV

BlueYonder

If I am going to produce for the European market, it may make sense to make products in Poland or the Czech Republic. Some of the strong examples of this come out of industries that are IP and technology intensive, semiconductor being an example. or at least Mexico. This applies to food products as well as aircraft.

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Who said supply chains are boring?: Using GPS to track cargo.

Supply Chains Rock

They are an innovative producer of high quality sweeteners, breath mints and semi-pharmaceutical products, has begun working with arviem to improve its global supply chain visibility for trade lanes between China and Europe. For example at the pallet level for high value goods. Wouldnt it be great to track it down?

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Celebrating Heroes on International Women in Engineering Day

QAD

This year we had panel contributors from Poland, India, UK, Australia and the US. Agnieszka Mazur , Global Consulting Center Director (Wroclaw, Poland). Jayne: “Those who innovate and teach are heroes. A small change to the business process here can determine a tsunami of business innovation elsewhere.”.

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Demand-Driven Transformation at Shell

Supply Chain Shaman

The Terra Technology implementation is an example of demand sensing while the DDMRP implementation is an example of demand translation of the probability of demand into materials requirements. Change in logistics cost or production cost based on implementation, for example, accumulates with time. Others become apparent overtime.

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SIGVARIS AU: putting customers first with the B2B Store

Unleashed

When faced with ordering frustration from staff, direct clients and wholesalers, the SIGVARIS team used new technology innovatively to make the whole process simple and easy to follow for everyone involved. Here’s Damien Peak, SIGVARIS AU’s Operations Manager, on how.