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Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2016

Talking Logistics

Google did not acquire a third-party logistics (3PL) company or a logistics software vendor. Making supply chain and logistics predictions is like throwing darts at a moving target. Well, my big audacious prediction for 2015 did not come true. But some of my other predictions did hit the mark or came close.

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Managing for Daily Improvement: Bridging the Gap Across Teams and KPIs

Talking Logistics

Lean Six Sigma (LSS) thrives on the notion that there is always room for improvement, and it looks to eliminate defects that can hinder the flow of a process from moving toward its performance end goal. He also served as Director of the Ryder Logistics Network and Vice President of the Gulf Region for Intermodal Trucking Company.

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Reflections, Thank-you(s) and Rethinking the Future

Supply Chain Shaman

Last week I spoke at the CLX Logistics Conference in Philadelphia on the future of Supply Chain Management. While the push in the back office was for efficiency–larger batch sizes, transactional processing, lower costs of transportation, and labor arbitrage strategies (Many companies outsourced the back office to India.)–the

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Mindmap for Global Logistics Integration

Supply Chain Movement

To manage this logistics complexity while adhering to customer service standards and incurring reasonable costs, companies need Global Logistics Integration. Mindmap for Global Logistics Integration. The main challenge in logistics is an increasing complexity of trade-offs in transport planning. Choose country.

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Complex costs of transportation

Supply Chain Movement

There are numerous ways a shipper can reduce freight spend. How likely are carriers to agree on endless rate cuts? Supply Chain Movement and software vendor Eyefreight have developed this checklist to provide to pinpoint the key drivers of Freight Spend Management. 10 questions about Freight Spend Management. Guinea-bissau.

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Updated IT Subway Map: Major acquisitions in SC software

Supply Chain Movement

This young, publicly listed American software vendor recently bought out Terra Technology, a specialist in demand sensing (short-term forecasting based on point-of-sale data). Guinea-bissau. Heard Island and Mcdonald Islands. Holy See (Vatican City State). Iran, Islamic Republic of. Isle of Man. Kazakhstan. Korea, Republic of. Kyrgyzstan.