EcoVadis
JUNE 3, 2018
In their example, shipping one container of flowers from Kenya to Rotterdam involves about 200 documents, from the local mills and export authorities to the port workers, customs agents and distributors. Everledger, for example, traces the origin of diamonds from provenance and verifies authenticity for consumers using blockchain.
Logistics Bureau
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Transportation outside of a capital city is typically informal—think, a family with a truck. Kenya is a big exception. So, for example, I saw an analysis from one of the big five consultants, and they had the output from every continent, and there was just no number for Africa. And I thought, what a real tragedy.
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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society
MAY 28, 2022
Transport markets tend towards consolation, which we have observed with the container liners and the emergence of new business models brought about for example by platform aggregators. Entire markets are being redefined by the opposing forces of fragmentation and consolidation, with industry boundaries getting blurred.
Requis
OCTOBER 30, 2020
In its simplest form, what we’ve seen over the last few years is increased use of technology in warehousing, for example, in terms of automation. For example, I don’t know if you have these in your shopping malls, but here we have red and green lights that shows drivers where the open parking spaces are in parking lots.
The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society
JULY 14, 2021
Freight monitoring accounted for more than half of the USD 116bn spent on transportation digitization in 2019, and the segment remained one of the top-5 use cases in 2020, according to IDC. a) covering more modes of transport and use cases, b) increasing the geographical footprint, and c) enhancing analytics capabilities.
Talking Logistics
MARCH 10, 2017
January 2017 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI). For example, goods from Schneider Electric were transported on a Maersk Line container vessel from the Port of Rotterdam to the Port of Newark in a pilot with the Customs Administration of the Netherlands under an EU research project. Department of Transportation.
Logistics Bureau
OCTOBER 30, 2017
It might help to think of a KPI as something like an instrument on a car dashboard—a speedometer for example. Later in this article we’ll look at some examples of functional and cross functional KPIs. Transportation. Against a required standard of performance. Inventory management. Purchasing and supplier management.
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