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

Supply Chain Shaman

Open Source Technologies (Examples include Hadoop, Spark, Kafka). 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 Blockchain/Cryptocurrency. 3D Printing.

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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. How will transportation, inventory, and sourcing policy decisions change in light of this cheap oil environment? Aligning Warehouse Labor Management with Omni-Channel Strategy. Of course, what happens in the U.S.

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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.