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This Week in Logistics News (February 11 – 17)

Logistics Viewpoints

In addition, as part of its mandate to improve safety, GroundCloud’s platform also incorporates video telematics for driving event detection and verification, enabling companies to leverage the insights it generates to inform reactive training programs. The Port of Long Beach blamed shifts in consumer demand and shipping patterns for the 28.4

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The Importance of International Transportation Visibility in a Global Pandemic

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Without inbound international transportation, product level visibility organizations are flying blind – or, they are at a minimum, severely visually impaired. The vast majority of these supply-side shipments come in through the port of Long Beach/LA. carriers ability to transport goods, . This is not a unique case.

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Achieving Maturity in Risk Management Takes Years

Logistics Viewpoints

For AGCO, a public company with over $11 billion in revenues, a supply chain risk management application helped the agricultural equipment manufacturer stay agile during COVID. For example, a manufacturer might have a supplier in Hanoi they purchase key components from. AGCO Stayed Nimble during the Pandemic.

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Supply Chain Matters COVID-19 and Ukraine Conflict News Capsule Update- October 25 2022

Supply Chain Matters

In our Supply Chain Matters news capsule of September 27, we pointed out that business, supply chain and transportation media had reported this that the cost of shipping a container of goods from China to the U.S. The real story is how accurate and responsive such adjustments turn out to be in quarterly and annual business performance.

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Turvo’s Collaborative TMS Paved the Way for Port X Logistics to Triple Growth

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Currently, Long Beach California is dealing with a record number of ships loitering outside the port, and that’s not the only place that’s getting increased traffic. In one example of deploying Turvo’s unified solution, a shipper and manufacturer in Germany became a system tenant user for Turvo through Port X.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 17-21, 2017)

Talking Logistics

Now, moving on to this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Amazon won a patent for an on-demand clothing manufacturing warehouse (Recode). MacroPoint Announces Platform Integration with JDA Transportation Management Solution. Long Beach ports emits only water from tailpipe (OCR). Source: Amazon patent.

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Upstream and Downstream Supply Chain Explained: Don’t Get Caught Without a Paddle

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It involves all the activities related to the sourcing and transportation of raw materials needed in the manufacturing process. Meanwhile, the downstream supply chain involves activities post the manufacturing process, which would mean getting the finished goods to the end consumer.