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The IoT Reality Check

C3 Solutions

Nobody wants to be the guinea pig," Intel's global logistics procurement director Greg Christensen told the authors of the 2019 State of Logistics Report. With better quality information – not to mention more of it – retailers are able to take more informed action on their inventory positions. Where's the ROI?

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Viral Reaction: Zika and the Supply Chain

Elementum

More than a dozen cases have been reported in Florida, prompting the logistics companies to heighten their mitigating measures against the disease. Supply chain networks are designed in such a way that a determined quantity and quality of a commodity needs to be transported at a calculated timeframe. In, ArcelorMittal S.A.’s

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Complex costs of transportation

Supply Chain Movement

By consolidating at the source, several shipments can be combined into one, thereby reducing the number of shipments even before the shipments arrive at the Logistics Service Provider (LSP). Equatorial Guinea. Guinea-bissau. Papua New Guinea. This is an important aspect of managing freight spend. El Salvador. Guadeloupe.