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Ease the Burden of Labor Shortages and Increase Supply Chain Resiliency 

Logility

Organizations must use every means at their disposal to keep goods moving while at the same time preventing their most important resource – their talent – from jumping ship at an alarming pace. The labor supply is shrinking in Germany, Poland, Russia, and Japan, and contraction is expected to quicken. It’s a global problem.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 12 – 18)

Logistics Viewpoints

and European companies may last longer than expected as they try to sell off their bulging inventories in an economic climate where demand is stalling. The shipping company is currently working with government agencies, customers and partners to coordinate the transport of relief supplies. 11 release.

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E2open to Acquire INTTRA, Adding the World’s Leading Ocean Shipping Network and Software Provider, Creating an Integrated Global Supply Chain and Logistics Operating Network

E2open

E2open to Acquire INTTRA, Adding the World’s Leading Ocean Shipping Network and Software Provider, Creating an Integrated Global Supply Chain and Logistics Operating Network. Today, one out of every four ocean containers shipped globally is booked through the INTTRA platform. MONDAY 22 OCTOBER 2018.

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This Week in Logistics News (October 1 – 7)

Logistics Viewpoints

For those unaware of the term, shrink is an accounting term used to describe when a store has fewer items in stock than in its recorded book inventory. Some smaller European countries including the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden grew their marketplaces faster than Britain, but from a lower base, Amazon said.

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Supply Chain Disruption. A Deeper Look Into Context, Causes, and Trends  

Elementum

2) Ship to the US and Western Europe. They expanded first into other parts of eastern Asia (Vietnam, Thailand, India), then into eastern Europe (Poland, Ukraine) and Mexico. If that were not enough, consumers have also grown to expect (and demand) full transparency of the entire shipping process, down to the item level.

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24 supply chain experts & business leaders reveal the #1 challenge of supply chain management (and how to solve it)

6 River Systems

“They have multi-sourced key commodities or strategic components to reduce their reliance on any one supplier, and they had considered inventory strategy to buffer against supply chain disruption.” This both reduces the risk of error and improves speed to create a smoother shipping process.

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Fulfillment vs fulfilment: American vs British spelling

ShipBob

The different steps in a fulfillment process include things like order processing, order receiving, warehousing, order picking and packing, shipping, and order tracking. When shipping to or from America or England, which spelling is correct? If you’re shipping from America, “fulfillment” would be the better option.