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Supply Chain & Logistic News (August 19th – 23rd) 

Logistics Viewpoints

The stoppage is set to “cripple shipments” of grain, potash, and coal while also slowing down the transport of petroleum products, chemicals, and autos. Department of Transportation, rail transport accounted for 14% of total bilateral trade of $382.4 According to the U.S. billion in the first half of the year.

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The Global Trade Compliance Market is Crazy!

Logistics Viewpoints

Many multinationals have engineered their global supply chains to minimize taxation by creating subsidiaries in low taxation nations like Switzerland, Ireland, and Singapore. Secondly, one core supply chain application is a transportation management system. That approach to taxation engineering is less potent than it used to be.

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Complex costs of transportation

Supply Chain Movement

To anticipate and respond to high customer demand, a modern Transportation Management System (TMS) needs to optimize inventory allocation. By consolidating at the source, several shipments can be combined into one, thereby reducing the number of shipments even before the shipments arrive at the Logistics Service Provider (LSP).

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List of Top 7 Supply Chain Management Scholarships

SCMDOJO

Unlike most funding sources that offer all beneficiaries a fixed amount of money, this program provides scholars different rates ranging between $500 and $2,500. However, you must be enrolled in a bachelor’s degree in transport or any area of logistics.

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Job opening: Associate Director European Distribution at Astellas

Supply Chain Movement

The products are made in our EMEA Astellas sites, which are based in Kerry (Ireland) and Meppel (the Netherlands). Alternatively they are sourced from contract manufacturers or Astellas sites outside EMEA. Knowledge of best practices in warehousing and transport for pharmaceutical distribution in Europe and worldwide.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 4-8, 2015)

Talking Logistics

It has 253 employees and is headquartered in New York, NY, with offices in Tel Aviv, Israel; Dublin, Ireland; and Brighton, England. That last point gets to the heart of this solution’s value proposition: getting more timely and accurate visibility to transportation activities. Borderfree generated $125 million in revenue in 2014.

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This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech- August 9 2024

Supply Chain Matters

Earlier this month this cold chain services provider announced that it has completed the acquisition of Luik Natie , a cold storage and transport service provider located in the Port of Antwerp-Bruges, Belgium. a provider of transportation management systems ( TMS ). million in Series A funding.