Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 11, 2024

Background Many students and practitioners of supply chain management are quite familiar with Spain based fashion clothing retailer Zara and its corporate parent Inditex. The global retailer is able to design, produce and ship products to fashion focused customers in a matter of days.

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Freightos

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

For a forwarder, refraining from working with Maersk today is expensive because it removes 17% of global shipping capacity. B2C Europe is operationally present in four key European E-commerce countries (Netherlands, France, United Kingdom, and Spain), and has offices in China. Enter Big Tech. But what does this mean for shippers?

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Freightos

JULY 26, 2018

In his 2017 annual shareholder letter , Bezos lauded “divinely discontent” customers as innovation drivers. In other words, if your shipping your own goods, you’re competition. Let’s Talk About Boats, Ships, and Trucks. Source: Amazon.com. That’s not surprising, given that Amazon’s shipping costs grew from $11.5

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Talking Logistics

MAY 1, 2015

Ports See Costly Delays as Cargo Ships, Volumes Grow (WSJ – sub. US Navy to accompany US-flagged ships in Persian Gulf after Iran seizes vessel (Fox News). It serves both B2B and B2C customers in the United Kingdom, Spain and France. Fetch Robotics Unveils Robotics System for Logistics Industry. Con-way Inc.

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Logistics Bureau

OCTOBER 23, 2016

For any fresh-food retail or supply business professional, the following seven insights into fresh supply chains around the world offer some ideas and innovations to consider , the adoption of which can open doors to meaningful cool-chain performance improvement. Sanitary practices must be maintained from source to shelf.

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Murano Corporation

JANUARY 19, 2016

Headquartered in the Thane District in the outskirts of Mumbai in India, they source and export internationally to Spain, Middle East, New Zealand, and Russia, in addition to catering to the local Indian market. They can track the various imports and exports, each piece and part, the stages of production, inventory, shipping, etc.,

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Supply Chain Brain

APRIL 4, 2018

Amazon has achieved their almost mythic status by continually innovating at a pace that others find hard to keep up with. That is currently the only Amazon Go store in the world, although some sources say Amazon is planning to open as many as six new Go stores this year. I visited the Amazon Go store while I was in Seattle recently.

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