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4 unstoppable forces that WILL change your end-to-end supply chain

Kinaxis

Buy online, pickup in store, return via postal service. You have to start thinking of your supply chain as providing a service, and you must develop a digital strategy, not just an ecommerce one, to deliver it. The current categorization of G7 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, USA) won’t be applicable.

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Sky Deutschland, Teleplan and DHL open a new European distribution centre

Supply Chain Movement

Based on a new five-year contract DHL Supply Chain, in cooperation with other partners, will provide standard storage services, inbound and distribution for Sky Deutschland. The new distribution centre provides Sky Deutschland’s over 4.6 The new distribution centre provides Sky Deutschland’s over 4.6

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Logistics Disruption and the Changing Role of People

Logistics Bureau

In logistics or the world of “trucks and sheds”, meaning shipping and warehousing, manual labour is a huge part of operations. Now, take people out of these logistics activities. The stage of transition to this futuristic mode of operation varies from one type of logistics activity to another. The first is network design.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Third-party logistics companies ( 3PLs ) specialize in distribution, warehousing and fulfillment services. The core competency of these companies is logistics , and they do it well. Even Amazon used third-party logistics companies when the company first started, until reaching sufficient scale to have a logistics arm of its own.

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Updated IT Subway Map: Major acquisitions in SC software

Supply Chain Movement

The supply chain software industry is in a considerable state of flux. furthermore, because the continuing growth in outsourcing is making global businesses ever-more susceptible to disruptions, supply chain risk management software is also on the rise. E2open offers a comparable cloud-based solution for network collaboration.

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Gradual changes in the European supply chain consulting market

Supply Chain Movement

Following on from its other two highly popular subway maps of supply chain software vendors and logistics service providers, the quarterly magazine Supply Chain Movement has now published the third edition of the Consulting Subway Map Europe showing the European supply chain consultancy sector. Falkland Islands (Malvinas).

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This Week in Logistics News (January 23-27, 2017)

Talking Logistics

I was tempted to title today’s post “This Week in Trump News,” considering all of the actions he took this week that have supply chain and logistics implications. I also considered this title: “Another Week of Amazon News (plus Other Stuff That Happened in Logistics).”. CX North America Information Services Inc. in December.